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Advisor for SMDC Hosted Payload systems. Lead System Engineer for Project Sirius. Coordinated coverage analyses determining the effectiveness of constellations using given payloads in support of tactical US Army mission. Payload Compatibility analysis for future Army LEO systems.

Provide technical expertise to the Weapons Development and Integration (WDI) Directorate in the development and testing of the M270 GMLRS simulation and Onboard Flight SW (OFS). Efforts include developing the operational flight software, developing the simulation platform, flight analysis, and supporting integration testing of the OFS

Senior Analyst, Missile Defense Agency National Team, Integrated Discrimination Product Team (Oct 14 to Nov16)• As a subject matter expert, routinely support or lead various tracking and estimation efforts providing guidance or assistance to teammates and/or the customer• Developing an application for the examination of threat data in order to conduct trend and vulnerability analyses of existing ICBM platforms• Developed an application suite for analyzing system performance by examining the target cluster in the interceptor’s IR sensor field of view in order to perform shot selection

SW Development Project Lead contracted to NSWCDD W25 for ONR’s, Fleet Radar Resource Management (FLRRM) Effort• Designed and programed a many-on-many simulation of a high density mixed missile raid upon a Naval surface force to be used as the Navy test stand to evaluate FLRRM algorithm fitness• Tested algorithm requirements and developed measures of effectiveness and performance• Supported technical interchanges with the customer and managed of junior team members• Presented results at Technical InterchangesIAI Project Lead contracted to NSWCDD W25 for ONR’s “Midcourse and Terminal Algorithm Study”• Performed IV&V of the W25 Track Filters, and subsequent re-engineering of the same reducing error in track estimate by 50%• Wrote parameter optimization program to compute open loop control guidance commands for a missile systems fire control as part of the initial upload to an interceptor’s autopilot

• Supporting Modeling and Simulations IPT for the C2BMC. The C2BMC is a command and control application fielded to provide battle management and composite tracking services to the US Missile Defense System. MDNTB performs periodic development and fielding of updates to this application. The life cycle of the updates includes everything from requirements specification to algorithm development through verification and validation via integration and testing of the system.• Supporting M&S Analysis sub-IPT lead for the Ballistic Missile Defense Overhead Persistent Infra Red Architecture • Wrote Data Quality Review procedures for the analysis of flight and ground test data drops.• Wrote SW tool for validation of the M&S in house model of the C2BMC application w.r.t. its Correlated Track functionality.

• Wrote the COTS GN&C Requirements Specification for vehicle with input from CAM• Prepared preliminary GN&C subsystem description• Wrote the COTS GN&C Verification Plan. • Wrote the COTS GN&C Integrated Master Schedule. • Represented the Cygnus GN&C team through multiple discussions regarding various technical issues with both internal and external customers/entities• Wrote a 6 state extended Kalman filter in order to provide the COTS vehicle GN&C with a design for the orbit determination function.• Performed a preliminary overview of the selected sensor systems to be used for the COTS vehicle with an eye an on a feasible concept of operations given the capabilities of the vehicle sensors.• Assisted the lead analyst in developing the initial COTS GN&C Algorithms, States and Modes mapping. • Analyzed inertial navigation filter in order to determine impact of a GPS-accelerometer blended solution

Orion Deputy GN&C CAM • Provided Static Stability, Linear Stability, CG Box, & Optimized Trajectory Analyses in support of design• Developed Ascent Abort CONOPS for the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) Launch Abort Vehicle (LAV) • Implemented improvements to the 6 degree of freedom (6DOF) LAV simulation by modifying Inertial navigation unit, adding 2nd order Attitude control motor and modifying 8th order Bending filter modelsGN&C Technical lead for CEV LAV phase 1 proposal design• Part of an effort that lead to a win of a $500B contract• Computed flight envelope, instantaneous impact footprints & performance measures• Performed load, nominal jettison condition and pad abort analyses and numerous parametric studiesSatellite Simulation Development for Kodak Proprietary Program• Reviewed and verified all of the equations of motion (EOM) for the 6DOF simulation• Implemented EOM’s to determine lunar & solar ephemeredes• Tested and integrated a set of dynamics algorithms for the rotational dynamics involved in implementing rigid body dynamics for a composite body with six separate centers of gravityProvided Technical support to the National Missile Defense NMD program• Generated missile flyout fans for multiple azimuths & mission data loads for 3 successful Flight Tests• Verified that missile position & velocity accuracies satisfy NMD communication window requirements• Determined system battle-space performance margins• Modified an industry standard 6DOF simulation (POST) to compute free molecular heating• Wrote unconstrained optimization routine finding flight profiles complying with solar avoidance reqmt• Generated fly-downs of the missile fairing, spent boosters, vent covers and other jettisoned missile components in support of a debris analysis for range safety submittals

Technical Lead for Sensor Systems Engineering Analysis Study• Wrote multi-sensor (space, ground, sea, air, IR, Radar), single target, composite tracker evaluating system performance against a simple NMD threat--evaluated impact of sensor grid-lockingTechnical Lead for Ballistic Missile Defense Systems Analysis Study • Led studies exploring candidate NMD sensors ability to support handover, discrimination and Target Object Map (TOM) matching in isolation and in netted formats. This included using cueing & warm-starting algorithms to share information among Netted sensors. • Wrote interceptor simulation to evaluate TOM quality which utilized proportional navigation and generated fire control solutions from the target trackLed a team in the Navy Concept Definition Study, (NCDS) • Developed end-to-end, 1-on-1 simulation initiating a track of a Tactical Ballistic Missile in free flight. Sim produced radar track of the target state using an Extended Kalman Filter. This estimate was used as state estimate to compute a fire control solution. TheStudy results were incorporated into a Report to Congress (RTC)

Led an investigation of Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) • Compared Applied Physics Lab CEC & Lockheed Martin Corp (LMC) filtering methodologies• Determined filtering algorithms for both TBMD and Anti-Air Warfare (AAW) are subject to potentially large biases in cooperating platform alignments leading to overall track degradationSupported Theater-Wide Tactical Ballistic Missile COEA• Determined the impact of data loss in the TBMD target track on interceptor commit • Examined robustness of various filters to determine whether architecture performance results would change qualitatively as a function of the type of filter selected to support the active defenseLed Aeolotropic/Kalman Filter Comparison Study • Led team whose comparison of Aeolotropic & EKF led to selection of EKF as std for Area TBMD sysSupported analysis Boost-Phase Tracking of TBMs Using Space-Based Assets• Used multiple space-based platforms with angle-only measurements• Varied observation rates, platform misalignments, and observation-phase differences, to determine their impact upon a space-based cue for a ground platform• Used an 18-state Kalman Filter and a least-squares batch process in which a parameter optimization method ‘best-fit’ a boost flyout through the measurements

Supported Sequence of Events Study• Developed Tactical Missile Intercept CONOP which included track initiation, illuminator guidance, endo-atmospheric discrimination, object separation, time of mid-course correction, and handover reqmts• Evaluated the radar resources needed to conduct the missionSupported Blue Team/Red Team Exercise • Used a Passive RADAR to defeat a Self Screening Jammer• Built a simulation where 2 SPY-1 radars triangulated angle-only measurements to determine TBM stateInvestigation of the TOMAHAWK Cruise Missile Lateral Guidance• Formulated and designed a possible auto-pilot for the cruise missile lateral guidanceDevelopment of Reentry Vehicle Simulation for Trident D5 program• Investigated possibility of introducing closed loop control to the RV system