Retired NAVAIR engineer
NAVAIR associate fellow.
Airvehicle performance
AIAA LIghter Than Air TC member
1) Before NAVAIR retirement: I was Government Air Vehicle IPT lead for airship sensor platform; Long Endurance Multi-int Vehicle, LEMV which developed for a record 21 day ISR loiter endurance. LEMV is an OSD ISR Task Force initiative supported as a Joint Service Program, directed the Army Space and Missile Defense Command, SMDC. I developed and executed the statement of work and source selection activities for the air vehicle systems of LEMV. I was on the SSB, Source Selection Board as a NAVAIR LTA expert. After civil service retirement I became Air Vehicle IPT Technical expert providing performance analysis and flight test data reduction under Army contact. In the LEMV flight test phase I developed the full flight test plans with the chief test pilot and chief engineer. Since no government agency had recent experience with airship testing the procedures and processes in NAVAIR Instruction 3960 were closely followed to develop and execute the flight test plans. The LEMV program was successful with the first flight at Lakehurst New Jersey.
2) My background is very diverse I am the principle architect and developer of NAVAIR up and away performance analysis methods for fixed wing, helicopter aircraft and lighter than aircraft systems. These analysis methods are the foundation for performance evaluation from source selection to initial operational capability to retirement from fleet.
3) I am also one of the founding engineers of the Tactical Aircraft Mission Planning System, TAMPS. It was my recommendation that the Air Force Combat Flight Planning System, CFPS replace TAMPS. Later mission planning evolved to the Joint Mission Planning System, JMPS. I was the NAVAIR lead formulating requirements with Eglin Air Force Base contractor Tybrin.
4) Aircraft carrier performance modeling and simulation technical expert: I contracted the development of Navy carrier suitability performance methods and then applied them to F/A-18 E/F, JSF, F-14 aircraft and other aircraft. Lead performance engineer for the Navy Electro Magnet Aircraft Launch System, EMALS. These methods are still in use today.
5) Acquisition engineer; expert
6) Technical expert in aircraft fluid and flight mechanics and solutions of problems associated with the preliminary design of future Naval Air Weapon Systems. On many source selection teams such as Joint Strike Fighter.
7) Program Manager for Aircraft Tactical Energy and Maneuverability performance for determination of air combat performance superiority: Technical expert.