Senior Associate
hiatus to Texas November 1995 to December 1998;Principal Investigator on multi-discipline research contracts for the US Navy, DARPA, NASA, and commercial projects to wit: Principal Investigator on a Phase I/Phase II DARPA SBIR developing Mission Assured Network tools and systems based on a unique measure of intrinsic information value developed from first principles.Developed Decentralized Data Fusion Measurement for use in lieu of the Pseudo Measurement using a full state roll-up of sensor measurements in Covariance Space to avoid State-to-State covariance collapse. Developed Maximum Likelihood registration/fusion algorithms for ONR Cooperative Organic Mine Defense (COMID) project and Advanced Risk Analysis algorithms of the ONR/PMS-490 Mine Warfare Environmental Decision Aids Library (MEDAL). Principal Investigator for a Phase I DARPA SBIR, developing real-time Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) algorithms for Autonomous Satellite Docking Project. Contract Manager and Lead Researcher for a Phase II SBIR with NavAir PMA-201 developing packages to integrate weather data into mission planning for the Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) in the Portable Flight Planning System (PFPS-N).Principal Investigator in a commercial venture designing a patented Automatic Chassis Positioning System for containerized cargo handling insuring proper positioning of an empty chassis to accept a container.Principal Investigator on a NASA (Langley Research Center) contract investigating the design focal plane processing using two-dimensional Quadrature Mirror Filter banks to achieve high data compression ratios based upon Shannon's Information Theory.
