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.

Taught graduate level courses in Modeling and Simulation and Signal Processing, and undergraduate courses in Operations Research, Engineering Analysis, and other mathematics, computer science and physics courses

Performed analyses for the JSOW-C Data Terminal; designed the missile-side antennae suite; modeled and simulated transmission and processing effects on the seeker cockpit images; developed real time image-rolling algorithm for missile DSP chip to counter gimbal effects in the seeker image

Principal Investigator investigating focal plane processing for fidelity and to achieve high data compression ratios based on Shannon's Information Theory studied imagining parameters versus channel information capacity Performed studies and analyses of the scanning radiometers and thermal models of the non-scanning radiometers on the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) satellites

Provided analysis, software, and research support to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on a large scale, global circulation model for climatology studies