SERC - Key Persons

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• Member of the SERC Advisory Board
• Major General, US Air Force ( Retired )

Major General Bedke is a defense aerospace and federal science and technology consultant, providing insights and solutions to both government and commercial organizations. He retired from the Air Force in 2010 with 32 years of experience in defense weapon systems science and technology, program acquisition, experimental flight test, operations, and command and control. From 2007 until his retirement, Gen Bedke was the Commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, responsible for the Air Force's $2.2 billion S&T program. Prior to his assignment at AFRL, he was the Commander of the Air Force Flight Test Center and was responsible for the safe test and evaluation of manned and unmanned aircraft systems. Before that, he was Director of the National Security Operations Center at the National Security Agency, where he directed the daily operations of the NSA's quick-response crisis nerve center. He is the current record-holder for having had the most fun Air Force career, ever. After retiring from the Air Force, Gen Bedke served as Vice President and General Manager for Science & Technology with High Performance Technologies, Inc. (HPTi), then Dynamics Research Corporation (DRC), and finally Engility, providing high performance computing (supercomputing) expertise for the federal government. He retired again in 2014 to consult independently, travel, and continue to expand his vast and eclectic collection of music.

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• Member of the SERC Advisory Board
• President of INCOSE

David Long was the 2014/2015 President of INCOSE. Mr. Long has served INCOSE since 1997 including a term as the Washington Metropolitan Area chapter president and international roles including Member Board Chair, Director for Communications, and Director for Strategy. He is a frequent presenter at industry events worldwide delivering keynotes and tutorials spanning introductory systems engineering, the advanced application of model-based systems engineering (MBSE), and the future of systems engineering. In 2006, Mr. Long received the prestigious INCOSE Founders Award in recognition of his many contributions to the organization. For over twenty years, Mr. Long has focused on enabling, applying, and advancing MBSE to help transform the state of the systems engineering practice. Mr. Long is the founder and president of Vitech Corporation where he developed and commercialized CORE, a leading systems engineering software environment used around the world. Throughout his career, Mr. Long has played a key technical and management role in refining and extending systems engineering to expand the analysis and communication toolkit available to systems practitioners. His experiences and efforts led him to co-author the book A Primer for Model-Based Systems Engineering to help spread the fundamental concepts of this key approach to modern challenges. He continues to lead the Vitech team as they deliver innovative, industry-leading solutions to help organizations develop and deploy next-generation systems. Mr. Long holds a bachelor's degree in Engineering Science and Mechanics, as well as a master's degree in Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech.

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• Member of the SERC Advisory Board

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• Researcher
• Executive Director, Systems Architecting

Executive Director, Systems Architecting and Engineering Program; Director, Distributed Autonomy and Intelligent Systems (DAIS) Laboratory, Professor of Astronautical Engineering Dr. Azad M. Madni is a researcher, educator, entrepreneur, and author. He is Professor of Astronautical Engineering in the University of Southern California and the holder of the Northrop Grumman Foundation Fred O'Green Chair in Engineering. He is the Executive Director of the Systems Architecting and Engineering Program and the founding director of the Distributed Autonomy and Intelligent Systems Laboratory. He also founded the Ph.D. degree program in systems engineering within the Astronautical Engineering Department. He is the founder and CEO of Intelligent Systems Technology, Inc., a high-tech R&D company specializing in model-based methods for architecting and engineering intelligent human-machine systems, and intelligent autonomous systems and systems-of-systems. He is also the Chief Systems Engineering Advisor to The Aerospace Corporation. His research is cross-disciplinary and use-inspired. His specific areas of research include model-based interactive storytelling in virtual worlds, virtual reality-enabled distributed simulation for collective training and collaborative engineering, formal and probabilistic modeling in engineered resilient systems, and intelligent multiagent planning and decision-making in autonomous systems and systems-of-systems. His research sponsors in the government include DARPA, OSD, NSF, SERC, MDA, AFOSR, AFRL, NASA, DHS, DOE, NIST, ONR, and ARL. His research sponsors in the aerospace and automotive industry include Boeing, General Motors, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, SAIC, and ORINCON. In 2016, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award and a Visionary Systems Engineering Leadership Award from Boeing for his "impact on Boeing, the aerospace industry, and the nation." He co-founded the IEEE SMC's award-winning Technical Committee on Model Based Systems Engineering and has served as its chair since its inception in 2013. He is a Past President of the Society of Design and Process Science and former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science. He is member of the governing body of IISE's ISE Body of Knowledge. He is the author of Transdisciplinary Systems Engineering: Exploiting Convergence in a Hyper-Connected World (Springer 2018) and co-author of Tradeoff Decisions in System Design (Springer, 2016). He is currently co-editing the Handbook on Model Based Systems Engineering with Norm Augustine. This handbook, slated for release in early 2022, comprises 60 chapters from international leaders in the field. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Life Fellow/Fellow of seven professional societies including IEEE, AAAS, AIAA, and INCOSE. He is an elected member of Omega Alpha, the systems engineering honors society. His recent awards include: 2021 INCOSE Benefactor Award, 2021 Joint INCOSE/ASEE Outstanding Educator Award, 2020 IEEE-USA Entrepreneur Achievement Award, 2021 IEEE AESS Judith A. Resnik Space Award, 2020 NDIA Lt. Gen Ferguson Award, 2020 IEEE SMC Norbert Wiener Outstanding Research Award, 2019 IEEE AESS Pioneer Award, 2019 ASME CIE Leadership Award, 2019 AIAA/ASEE John Leland Atwood Award for Excellence in Systems Engineering, 2019 Society of Modeling and Simulation International Presidential Award, and 2019 INCOSE Founders Award. In 2011, he received the INCOSE Pioneer Award. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering from University of California, Los Angeles. He is a graduate of the AEA/ Stanford Executive Institute.

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• Member of the SERC Advisory Board

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• Chief Scientist
• Member of the SERC Leadership Team
• Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics
• Chief Scientist, Systems Engineering Research Center / Purdue University
• Member of the IEEE

Dr. DeLaurentis is also a member of the IEEE and INCOSE and active in "systems circles" of those societies. He was the Co-Chair of the System of Systems Technical Committee in the IEEE System, Man, and Cybernetics Community (2009-2014) and is Associate Editor for the Transactions of the IEEE Systems, Man, & Cybernetics: Systems. As of July 2019, Dr. Daniel DeLaurentis serves as the Chief Scientist of the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC), assuming the role from Dr. Barry Boehm, Chair of the SERC Research Council. Dr. DeLaurentis is co-lead of the Enterprises as Systems and System of Systems (ESOS)Research Area as a member of the SERC Research Council, in addition to leading a project to develop an Analytical Workbench for system of system (SoS) architecture analysis, design and evolution. In addition to the SERC, he leads research projects with the Missile Defense Agency and NASA in developing agent-based modeling and simulation and associated design tools for development of advanced battle management (MDA) and air transportation (NASA) architectures. Dr. Daniel DeLaurentis is a Professor in Purdue's School of Aeronautics & Astronautics. Dr. DeLaurentis also serves as the Director of Purdue's Institute for Global Security and Defense Innovation (i-GSDI) in the University's Discovery Park. His primary research interests are in the areas of problem formulation, modeling and simulation, and robust system design and control methods for aerospace systems and systems-of-systems (SoS). This includes agent-based modeling, network theory, optimization, and aerospace vehicle modeling. His research is conducted under grants from NASA, FAA, Navy, the DoD Systems Engineering Research Center UARC, and the Missile Defense Agency. Dr. DeLaurentis is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and served as Chairman of the AIAA's Air Transportation Systems (ATS) Technical Committee from 2008-2010. He is also AIAA's Deputy Strategic Technologies Coordinator since 2011.

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• Member of the SERC Advisory Board

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• Member of the SERC Advisory Board
• Deputy Laboratories Director and Executive Vice President, National Security Programs, Sandia National Laboratories ( Retired )
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Dr. J. Stephen (Steve) Rottler served as the Deputy Laboratories Director and Executive Vice President, National Security Programs at Sandia National Laboratories from March 2015 to May 2017. In this role, he led the Laboratories' Nuclear Weapon Program Management Unit and was the Senior Intelligence Executive with responsibility for several national security-related functions. Previously, Dr. Rottler was the Vice President of Sandia's California laboratory and led the Laboratories' Energy and Climate Program Management Unit. The California laboratory's principal programs include nuclear weapons stewardship; homeland security with a focus on defending against weapons of mass destruction; combustion, transportation and hydrogen energy research; biology; and advanced computational and information systems. Dr. Rottler has held a number of leadership roles in his 30-year career at Sandia, including Chief Technology Officer and Vice President, Science and Technology. In this role, he also managed technology transfer and strategic research relationships with universities, industry, and the State of New Mexico. Within Sandia's nuclear weapons mission, he was Chief Engineer and Vice President, Weapon Engineering and Product Realization, serving as the Central Technical Authority for nuclear weapons and leading all nuclear weapons engineering and production activities at Sandia. In other leadership roles, Dr. Rottler was responsible for nuclear systems engineering and integration, the development of high-performance electronic systems, and system analyses and assessments for Sandia and National Nuclear Security Administration senior management. He also managed organizations and programs responsible for the research, development, and application of advanced computational and experimental techniques in the engineering sciences. As a member of technical staff at Sandia, Dr. Rottler was part of a research team that developed multidimensional simulation codes for nuclear weapons applications, and he led projects that supported the development of advanced nuclear and conventional weapons concepts. Dr. Rottler is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is also a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, a member and future-chair of the Institute's Ethics Committee, a former member of the Institute's Board of Directors, and a past chair of the Institute's Technical Committee on Management. Dr. Rottler is a recipient of the Department of the Air Force Award for Exemplary Civilian Service. He is currently serving or has served on the Board of Directors for the United Kingdom Atomic Weapons Establishment, the New Mexico Humanities Council, the Albuquerque Explora Museum, and Technology Ventures Corporation. Dr. Rottler has also served as a member of the External Advisory Board for the Texas A&M University Dwight Look College of Engineering, and he has led or served on independent review panels for other national laboratories, the U.S. Navy Strategic Systems Programs Office, and the United Kingdom Atomic Weapons Establishment. Dr. Rottler received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in nuclear engineering from Texas A&M University in 1980, 1982, and 1984, respectively. He has published papers, reports, and conference presentations on the development and application of computational radiation-hydrodynamics codes. Dr. Rottler and his wife have two children. In his spare time, he relaxes through long-distance running, golf, and genealogy. He is also an avid reader of U.S. and English history.

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• Distinguished Service Professor of Engineering Management at Stevens

Dr. John Boardman is a distinguished service Professor of Engineering Management at Stevens. Before coming to Stevens he was Professor of Systems Engineering (since 1995) at the De Montfort University, UK . Before that he was first GEC Marconi Professor of Systems Engineering and Director of the School of Systems Engineering, and then Dean of the College of Technology, at the University of Portsmouth.

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• Member of the SERC Research Council
• Senior Research Scientist / Stevens Institute of Technology

Dr. Mark R. Blackburn is a member of the SERC Research Council, providing guidance with a focus in the Systems Engineering and Systems Management Transformation research area. Dr. Blackburn is a member of OpenMBEE Leadership Team, a community of Model-Based Engineering Practitioners and Software Developers for the open-source model-based engineering environment or OpemMBEE. He is the Principal Investigator (PI) on several SERC research tasks for both NAVAIR and US. Army ARDEC on Systems Engineering Transformation through Model-Centric Engineering. Dr. Blackburn is also a Senior Research Scientist with Stevens Institute of Technology and principal at KnowledgeBytes. His research focuses on methods, models, and automated tools for reasoning about complex systems of systems. He has also been Principal on a FAA NextGen project and has received research funding from the National Science Foundation. Dr. Blackburn develops and teaches a course on Systems Engineering of Cyber Physical Systems. Prior to joining Stevens, Dr. Blackburn worked in industry for more than 25 years. He has been the Principal Investigator to the National Institute of Standards and Technology on projects dating back to 2000 involving model-based tools and methods for verification and validation of security-related products and applications. Dr. Blackburn holds a Ph.D. from George Mason University, a M.S. in Mathematics (emphasis in C.S.) from Florida Atlantic University, and a B.S. in Mathematics (C.S. option) from Arizona State University. Dr. Blackburn is an inventor and entrepreneur with more than twenty five years of software systems engineering experience in development, management and applied research of process, methods and tools. He is involved in consulting, research, training, strategic planning, proposal and business development, as well as developing and applying methods and tools to software and system engineering. He is the co-inventor of a theorem proving-based test vector generation system called T-VEC.-+ Dr. Blackburn spends much of his time doing research in the areas of modeling, formal analysis and visualization, and also helps companies adopt, adapt, tailor and apply new technologies, tools and methods. He is currently involved in a number of projects involving analysis and testing of adaptive autonomous systems, Bayesian networks, MBSE, domain specific modeling and concept engineering using gaming technology and immersive environments. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and symposia, and has authored more than 100 papers covering a broad spectrum of topics such as modeling, requirements engineering, verification, software safety, security, reliability, automatic test vector generation, formal methods, and measurement. Dr. Blackburn has been consulting with companies and organizations such as AT&T, BAE Systems, Boeing, Citibank, CSC, DARPA, DHS, EDS, Embraer, FAA, General Dynamics, Hamilton Sundstrand, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, Medtronic, NASA, NAVAIR, NCR, NIST, Northrop Grumman, Qualcomm, Raytheon, Rockwell, Pratt Whitney, SRA, UTC, and Xerox for the last 17 years.

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• Principal Investigator
• Staff Researcher / Stevens Institute of Technology

Dr. Nicole Hutchison is a Principal Investigator (PI) and research engineer at the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC). Her primary work through the SERC has been in human capital development research. This has included development of competency frameworks for systems engineering (the Helix project), digital engineering, and mission engineering. Currently, Dr. Hutchison is the PI for the Simulation Training Environment for Digital Engineering, a project that is developing realistic models to be used in training the DoD acquisition workforce in a way that builds hands-on digital engineering skills. She has previously served on the BKCASE research team, which resulted in the development of the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SEBoK). She is currently the Managing Editor for the SEBoK and the Lead Editor for the "Enabling Systems Engineering" section of the SEBoK. Before joining the SERC, she spent 5 years working for Analytic Services, Inc., supporting the US Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, and Justice. She has helped to plan and conduct exercises in Emergency Management, helped run the Louisiana Family Assistance Center following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and served 10 years in emergency medicine. She holds a PhD in systems engineering from Stevens as well as a master's degree in Biohazardous Threat Agents and Emerging Infectious Disease from Georgetown University. Dr. Hutchison is an active member of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), currently serving on as the INCOSE Events Portfolio Manager and on the INCOSE Certification Advisory Board. She holds her Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) credential.

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• Professor, Hume Center for National Security and Technology, Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering / Virginia Polytechnic Institute
• Research Council Member

Dr. Peter A. Beling serves as a SERC Research Council member, providing guidance in the Trusted Systems research area. Dr. Beling is a Professor in the Hume Center for National Security and Technology within the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech. Dr. Beling received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from the University of California at Berkeley and has held positions at the Center for Naval Analyses and the IBM Almaden Research Center as well as most recently at the University of Virginia (UVA). Dr. Beling's research interests are in data analytics and decision-making in complex systems, with emphasis on adaptive decision support systems and reinforcement learning. His research has found application in a variety of domains, including smart manufacturing, resilient cyber physical systems, finance, and consumer credit. Previously at UVA, he directed the Adaptive Decision Systems Laboratory, which focuses on data analytics and decision support in cyber-physical systems. He is the co-founder of the Financial Decision Engineering research group at UVA, which is a focal point for research on systems engineering approaches to decisions and analyses in the financial and consumer credit domains. Dr. Beling has served as editor and reviewer for many academic journals. He has served as a member of two National Research Council panels. Research Interests: Decision modeling in complex and cyber-physical systems Adaptive decision systems Reinforcement and inverse reinforcement learning Probabilistic machine learning Data-driven process improvement in smart manufacturing systems Decision modeling in consumer lending financial markets Decision models for cybersecurity assessment

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• Member of the SERC Advisory Board

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• Member of the SERC Advisory Board

Lieutenant General Ted F. Bowlds' last assignment in the Air Force was as Commander of the Electronic System Center and Program Executive Office for Command and Control at Hanscom AFB, MA. The center's mission is to acquire command and control systems for the Air Force managing more than $3 billion in programs annually. The organization comprises more than 12,000 people located at six sites throughout the United States. Throughout his military career, General Bowlds has served in a variety of weapons system acquisition leadership positions to include flight test engineer on the F-117, director of avionics development for the B-2, program director of the C-17, and commander of the AF Research Laboratory. He is currently a member of the Mississippi State University Research and Technology Advisory Council and serves on Battelle's Air Force Market Sector (AFMS) Senior Advisory Group.

Gen Bedke holds M.S. degrees in Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering (Stanford University) and National Resource Strategy (Industrial College of the Armed Forces), and he has a B.S. degree in Astronautical Engineering & Mathematics from the U.S. Air Force Academy. He is an experimental test pilot and has flown 80 different models of aircraft. He lives with his wife, Ina, in Crystal City, Arlington, VA, where they love to entertain and pamper their guests.

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• Staff Member

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• Member of the SERC Leadership Team

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• Staff Member

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• Member of the SERC Advisory Board

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• Data Operations Associate / Stevens Institute of Technology

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• Events
• Executive Assistant for the Executive Director / Stevens Institute of Technology

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• Member of the SERC Advisory Board
• Major General, US Army ( Retired ) and Executive Director, PowerAmerica

Major General Nick Justice retired from the United States Army after serving over 42 years as an American Soldier. He began his Army career as an enlisted soldier. His experiences opened new doors in high performance computing, electronic warfare, telemetry analysis,telecommunications, as well as experiences in Legal and Leadership in the Infantry. Highlights of his career include assignments with NATO during Dessert Storm where he built Command and Control Systems; Project Manager for Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below fielding Command and Control Systems to American and Allied Forces during Operation Iraqi Freedom; Program Executive Officer for Tactical Command and Control Systems and the Commanding General of Research, Development, & Engineering Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground. In January 2015, Maj. Gen. Justice was named the new Executive Director of PowerAmerica, the public-private power electronics manufacturing institute that will be located on NC State University's Centennial Campus. PowerAmerica is funded by a $140 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. The institute will unite academic, government and industry partners in an effort to revolutionize energy efficiency across a wide range of applications, including electronic devices, power grids and electric vehicles

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• Member of the SERC Advisory Board
• Chairman and CEO of Technovation, Inc
• Chairman, SERC Advisory Board Chairman and CEO of Technovation, Inc.

Paul G. Kaminski is Chairman and CEO of Technovation, Inc., a small consulting company dedicated to fostering innovation, and to the development of business and investment strategies related to the application of advanced technology in the aerospace and defense sectors. Dr. Kaminski served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology from October 3, 1994 to May 16, 1997. He was responsible for all Department of Defense (DOD) research, development, and acquisition programs. He also had responsibility for DOD logistics, environmental security, international programs, the defense industrial base, and military construction. The annual budget for these entities exceeded $100 billion. Dr. Kaminski has had a continuing career involving large program management, and the development and application of advanced technology in both the private and public sectors. He served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Technology Strategies and Alliances, a technology - oriented investment banking and consulting firm. He has served as a consultant and advisor to a wide variety of government agencies and as chairman, director or trustee of several defense and technology oriented companies. His previous government experience includes a 20-year career as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. During 1981-1984, he served as Director for Low Observables Technology, with responsibility for overseeing the development, production and fielding of major "stealth" systems (e.g., F-117, B-2). He also led the initial development of a National Reconnaissance Office space system and related sensor technology. Early in his career, he was responsible for test and evaluation of inertial guidance components for the Minuteman missile and terminal guidance systems for our first precision guided munitions. Dr. Kaminski has served on the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, the FBI Director's Advisory Board, the Director of National Intelligence Senior Advisory Group, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Technical Advisory Board, and the National Academies Air Force Studies Board. He currently serves on the Defense Science Board (which he has chaired twice). He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and a Fellow and an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics. He has chaired the board of the RAND Corporation, served as a Director of General Dynamics, and currently chairs the boards of Exostar, HRL (formerly the Hughes Research Labs), and Seagate Government Solutions, councils as well as our Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) Advisory Board. He is also a Director of MITRE, CoVant Technologies, LGS Innovations, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, and the USAF Academy Endowment. He serves as an advisor to the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and has authored publications dealing with inertial and terminal guidance system performance, simulation techniques, Kalman filtering and numerical techniques applied to estimation problems. Dr. Kaminski has received the following awards: The National Medal of Technology, Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service (the highest award for a civilian given by The Secretary of Defense - 5 awards), Defense Distinguished Service Medal, Director of Central Intelligence Director's Award, Defense Intelligence Agency Director's Award, Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster, Air Force Academy 2002 Distinguished Graduate Award, the Ronald Reagan Award for Missile Defense, the Perry Award for precision strike, the Reed award for Aeronautics, The IEEE Simon Ramo award for Systems Engineering, the IISS Possony Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Strategic Progress through Science and Technology, the Marine Scholarship Leatherneck Award, the AOC Gold Medal, the Netherlands Medal of Merit in Gold, the French Republic Legion d'Honneur, the SPIE Lifetime Achievement award, and the Air Force Systems Command Scientific Achievement Award. He has been recognized as a Pioneer of National Reconnaissance and a Pioneer of Stealth. Dr. Kaminski was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He received a Bachelor of Science from the Air Force Academy, Master of Science degrees in both Aeronautics and Astronautics and in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University. He and his wife, Julie, have two children, and six grandchildren.

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• Accountant / Stevens Institute of Technology

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• Member of the SERC Advisory Board
• Foreign Secretary for the National Academy of Engineering

Ruth A. David became Foreign Secretary for the National Academy of Engineering in 2015 after retiring from Analytic Services Inc., where she had served as President and Chief Executive Officer since 1998. From 1995 to 1998, Dr. David was Deputy Director for Science and Technology at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). She previously served in several leadership positions at the Sandia National Laboratories where she began her professional career in 1975. Dr. David received a B.S. degree from Wichita State University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, all in electrical engineering. Dr. David is a member of the National Science Board and the Defense Science Board, and is Secretary/Treasurer for the international Council of the Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences (CAETS). She serves on advisory boards for the Systems Engineering Research Center, a DoD UARC led by Stevens Institute of Technology, and the College of Engineering at Wichita State University as well as the Research External Advisory Committee for the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She is a member of the corporation for the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. Dr. David was elected to the NAE in 2002; in 2008 she was designated a lifetime National Associate of the National Research Council. She has served on many NAE and NRC committees, including serving as chair of the NRC Board on Global Science and Technology.

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• Staff Member

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• Leader
• Member of the SERC Leadership Team
• Chief Technology Officer, Systems Engineering Research Center / Stevens Institute of Technology

Tom McDermott is a leader, educator, and innovator in multiple technology fields. He currently serves as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ, as well as a consultant specializing in strategic planning for uncertain environments. He studies systems engineering, systems thinking, organizational dynamics, and the nature of complex human socio-technical systems. He teaches system architecture concepts, systems thinking and decision making, and the composite skills required at the intersection of leadership and engineering. He has over 30 years of background and experience in technical and management disciplines, including over 15 years at the Georgia Institute of Technology and 18 years with Lockheed Martin. Tom's professional accomplishments in this position come from a combination of servant leadership, systems thinking, and heuristic knowledge of complex system architectures. His long-term research goal is to develop methods and tools that support better systems thinking in the management and engineering domains and enable more rapid development of system knowledge. His current research activities focus on innovation models, strategic foresight techniques, system data analytics, and modeling and simulation of policy implications in current and future complex systems. Tom is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology, with degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering. He developed his career in the defense electronics industry, culminating in a leadership position with Lockheed Martin as Chief Engineer and Program Manager for the F-22 Raptor Avionics Team. Tom was GTRI Director of Research and interim Director from 2007-2013. During his tenure the impact of GTRI significantly expanded, research awards doubled to over $300M, faculty research positions increased by 60%, and the organization was recognized as one of Atlanta's best places to work as well as one of the nation's leaders in employee development. He also has a visiting appointment in the Georgia Tech Sam Nunn School of International Affairs. Tom is one of the creators of Georgia Tech's Professional Masters degree in Applied Systems Engineering and lead instructor of the "Leading Systems Engineering Teams" course.

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• Accountant / Stevens Institute of Technology

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• Member of the SERC Advisory Board
• Federal Aviation Administration 's Assistant Administrator

As the Federal Aviation Administration's Assistant Administrator for NextGen, Victoria Cox led the transformation of the nation's air traffic control system with responsibility for the multi-billion dollar NextGen portfolio. A results driven strategic thinker and planner, she has a proven record as an innovator who develops solutions and delivers change. Since retiring from the FAA in 2013, she has served on various technical committees and has recently initiated a consulting practice.