Mr. Reed leads a team of highly skilled engineers to develop and enhance the IAMPS product line that provides sophisticated preflight planning, mission rehearsal and post-flight review capabilities organized in an intuitive human-machine interface that follows the logical flow of tactical flight planning. IAMPS enables the aircrew to plan a flight using aircraft performance models, weight and balance limit checks, threat and flight safety analysis for route feasibility, weapons loading, and avionics initialization. At the conclusion of the mission, recorded avionics data is downloaded to IAMPS for accurate sortie reconstruction to support critical analysis and visualization of pilot performance and tactics to maximize the lessons learned from each flight.

Lead software engineer for the design and implementation of mission planning systems for the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy Foreign Military Sales (FMS). The defense-focused organization within Horizons Technology, Incorporated (HTI) was acquired by SAIC->Leidos in 1996. The international FMS program to support the F/A-18 aircraft mission data systems continued at SAIC->Leidos and Mr. Reed assumed the Project Manager responsibilities of that effort.

Technical lead engineer for the development of a rule-based expert system with intelligent, automated forms used for case tracking of pharmaceutical medication studies. The system provided medical staff with quick-alert advice if any problematic symptoms arise, assuring both patient safety and data integrity. Additional responsibilities included personnel management, customer relations and instructing hands-on seminars for applied artificial intelligence projects.

Leveraged advanced mathematical models in the software development of Logistics Modeling Expert Systems to analyze military equipment classification for logistics and to determine the combat readiness of deployed U.S. Army units. Final product provided U.S. Army commanders with decision aids used in combat logistics modeling. Also conducted studies in the military application of emerging artificial intelligence technologies to brief senior Army decision makers.