Jay Ely Email & Phone Number

Yorktown, Va, Us

Hampton, Virginia, Us

1-2 Year Detail Assignment to establish LaRC Smart Center as a nationally recognized research, development, and test environment for advanced UAS operations and Smart Infrastructure capabilities that strategically enable NASA and Partner Missions.Established five focus areas to achieve this vision:1. Infrastructure Inspection and Environmental Assessment2. New UAS Mission Capabilities for Research, Development, Test & Evaluation (RDT&E)3. Data Architecture4. Command/control, navigation and traffic surveillance (C2NS) Regional Infrastructure for AAM5. Strategic Partnerships

Hampton, Virginia, Us

The Center RF Spectrum Manager enables NASA missions by obtaining and maintaining RF assignments, ensuring compliance with national and international regulations, coordinating across organizations, troubleshooting/resolving interference issues and enabling transformative new technology applications. The Early Career Cohort Manager enables a new pipeline for entry-level engineers and technicians that participate in rotational assignments across four of the NASA Langley Technical Directorates.

Hampton, Virginia, Us

Advanced measurement and prediction capabilities for flight vehicle environment awareness & resiliency, as well as for Earth & planetary science.

Hampton, Virginia, Us

Served as Programmatic and Technical Lead of a cross-discipline team that utilizes physical and mathematical modeling, prototyping, and testing to conduct experimental and theoretical investigations to identify and develop high-payoff, innovative technologies to enhance the performance of advanced aircraft.

Hampton, Virginia, Us

Co-led a diverse and highly specialized team performing R&D for E3 on avionic systems, compact range measurements of antennas & scattering, vehicle weather radar, high spectral resolution lidar, computational vision, non-contact electromagnetic sensors, EM modeling for antennas, and wireless avionics. A chief leadership objective was to maintain and build technical capabilities, while leading change for better alignment with evolving NASA missions. Established senior leadership buy-in for continued investment in E3 research capability in the new Measurement Systems Laboratory. Supported Branch Head in new business development for the anechoic ranges (i.e. Europa Clipper High Gain Antenna). Initiated collaborations with organizations at other NASA centers having similar/complimentary facilities and competencies. Established branch interchange with other NASA directorates via integration meetings and contact with project managers to broaden the scope of our discipline to better align with NASA LaRC business and strategy. Maintained contact with RF Spectrum organizations across NASA, as part of a Wireless Avionics initiative and acted as NASA Liaison for Wireless Avionics Intra Communications under Agreement with the Aerospace Vehicle Systems Institute.Represented branch at directorate meetings and integration forums. Strategically managed branch budgets and developed a spend plan to ensure optimal stewardship financial resources. Led branch staff meetings. Assisted with development of Branch Vision and Mission, conducted performance reviews & ratings, generated performance elements and position descriptions, conducted workforce planning, reviewed/approved technical publications, approved travel authorizations, training requests, facility and IT access, safety Inspections, contractor task descriptions, etc.Served as Technical Organizer for Sensors & Sensemaking Blue Sky Workshop (with LaRC Chief Scientist).Authored/Advocated AIAA Technical Committee nominations.

Hampton, Virginia, Us

Served as Lead Researcher for electromagnetic (EM) and environmental effects (E3) testing and evaluation, and specifically the impact of the EM environment on flight critical electronic systems. Experienced with microwave EM, antennas, radio wave propagation, lightning effects, EM sensors, numerical simulation, RF spectrum management, operation of RF equipment, design of experiment systems, reverberation chamber theory and techniques, and EM interference and compatibility (EMI/EMC). Conducted testing in the High Intensity Radiated Fields (HIRF) laboratory and semi-anechoic chamber facility including indirect lightning effect tests, EMI/EMC tests, HIRF susceptibility and emissions tests. Familiar with FAA regulations and industry standards related to HIRF, lightning and EMI/EMC design and certification requirements. Reviewed laser and microwave safety procedures and facilities for permits as a member of the NASA LaRC NonIonizing Radiation Committee. Under the Aviation Safety Program, managed research to demonstrate sensors that measure effects on airborne systems due to lightning attachment. Collaborative research with the National Institute of Aerospace included investigation of lightning spectrum and emissions data (with University of OK), and aircraft transfer function data between external lightning environment and onboard sensors (with Old Dominion University). Coordinated with program managers and procurement officials to modify and renegotiate task plans. Provided sub-project co-leadership for Lightning Electromagnetic Effects & Mitigation (LEEM) project element and served as Contracting Officers Representative (COR) for an FAA Interagency Agreement and multiple Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contracts.

Washington, Dc, Us

Served as Lead Space Shuttle Orbiter Systems Engineer, responsible for establishing test methods, procedures, techniques, and requirements for launch preparation of RF navigational aids and Ku-band interfaces. Sub-system responsibility in Launch Control Center during shuttle launch countdowns. Responsible for maintaining an expert knowledge of orbiter RF navigational aids and Ku-band systems and software and ground support equipment approaches to test, checking and troubleshooting of these systems. Serve as an expert consultant and advisor to Vehicle Engineering management and contractor personnel regarding status, anomalies, modifications, operational parameters, and overall flight readiness of RF navigational aids and Ku-band systems software and ground interfaces. Accomplishments included co-authorship of numerous system checkout and troubleshooting procedures, leading to successful shuttle flights. Successfully contracted a short course "GPS and GPS/INS Integration for NASA KSC" in July 1996 to help train the launch team for the introduction of orbiter GPS navigation systems.

Washington, Dc, Us

Served in the Guidance Navigation and Control Systems Branch, Guidance Digital & Software Systems Division, Shuttle Management Operations and Vehicle Engineering Directorate, NASA Kennedy Space Center. Served as a system engineer responsible for ensuring flight readiness of Space Shuttle Orbiter inertial measurement units, star trackers, air data system, nose-wheel steering and brakes, navigation displays, head-up displays, and remote manipulator system (robotic arm). Teamed with contractor to perform pre-launch preparation, test, checkout and launch team assignment for Space Shuttle Orbiter guidance and navigation sensors and displays, and robotic arm. Assignments required considerable independent judgment and initiative to resolve problems and/or improve, extend and validate current known test techniques, data, methods or procedures.

Msee, Electrical Engineering, Microwaves & Antennas

Bsee, Electrical Engineering