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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Biographies of Committee Members." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Enabling DoD's Test Ranges and Infrastructure to Meet Threats and Operational Needs in the 21st Century: Unclassified Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26607.
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Biographies of Committee Members

HEIDI C. PERRY, Chair, is the chief technology officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory. She previously held the position of assistant head of the Air, Missile, and Maritime Defense Technology Division, where she focused on enhancing the division’s efforts to develop advanced naval undersea and surface fleet systems and technology. She joined Lincoln Laboratory as a principal staff member in that division in September 2018. Ms. Perry joined Lincoln Laboratory after 23 years at Draper Laboratory, where she most recently served as director of systems engineering and oversaw approximately 300 staff supporting Draper’s programs in strategic systems, space, defense, biomedical, special operations, and energy systems. She was responsible for Draper’s strategy and execution for technology development in guidance, navigation, and control systems; autonomous systems; communication systems; modeling and simulation; human-machine cognitive systems; and biomedical systems. She has also served in many project leadership roles at Draper and in previous assignments at IBM Federal Systems as an avionics engineer and at General Electric as a systems engineer on the AN/BSY-2 submarine combat system. Ms. Perry has also been affiliated for more than 11 years with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, including being a long-standing participant in their Naval Studies Board. She was the co-chair for the Naval Studies Board investigation into mainstreaming unmanned undersea vehicles. She was appointed as the chair of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine’s Transportation Research Board committee for the Update of the National Naval Responsibility for Naval Engineering project. Ms. Perry received a B.S. in electrical engineering from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and an M.S. in computer engineering from the National Technological University in Fort Collins, Colorado.

KEVIN G. BOWCUTT is a senior technical fellow and chief scientist of Hypersonics with the Boeing Corporation, in Long Beach, California. Dr. Bowcutt has been with Boeing (formerly Rockwell International, North American Aircraft) since 1986 and was named a senior technical fellow by Boeing in 1998. Much of his professional career has involved research in and development of air breathing hypersonic vehicles, including missiles, aircraft and space launch vehicles. In 2015, Dr. Bowcutt was named to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for development and demonstration of air-breathing hypersonic vehicles and the implementation of design optimization methods. In addition, he is an American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) fellow and a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. Notable accomplishments include developing the modem viscous optimized hypersonic wave rider; serving in technical leader ship roles on the National Aero Space Plane program; leading a project to flight test scramjet engines by launching them from a light gas gun; originating the concept and optimizing the design of the U.S. Air Force/Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency X 51A scramjet powered wave rider vehicle; leading a team that designed an air breathing reusable launch vehicle concept; and working on the space shuttle Columbia accident investigation, simulating wing aero thermal structural failure.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Biographies of Committee Members." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Enabling DoD's Test Ranges and Infrastructure to Meet Threats and Operational Needs in the 21st Century: Unclassified Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26607.
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COL (RET.) KATHERINE J. GRAEF is a retired U.S. Army officer with 30 years of experience in a variety of leadership and staff positions, including senior command and three combat deployments. She is a distinguished military graduate of the University of Texas at Austin where she earned a degree in classical archaeology. COL Graef holds three master’s degrees, is certified as a Demonstrated Master Logistician by the International Society of Logistics and is also an inaugural member of the Halifax International Security Forum Peace with Women Fellowship. The second half of her career was almost entirely joint, including assignments to U.S. Strategic Command as a J4 and sustainment chief focused on eliminating weapons of mass destruction, and to the U.S. Naval War College as a military professor in the Joint Military Operations department. Her final assignment before retirement was as the logistics director and Army element commander for Special Operations Command Africa, headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. She possesses extensive experience in the Middle East, Europe, and sub-Saharan Africa with some experience on the Korean Peninsula.

CONRAD J. GRANT became the inaugural chief engineer of the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) on August 22, 2016. As chief engineer, Mr. Grant works with engineers and scientists across APL and throughout the nation’s research and development (R&D) community to explore innovative approaches and technical concepts that will better position APL’s contributions with future challenges. As the nation’s largest University Affiliated Research Center, APL performs research and development on behalf of the Department of Defense (DoD), the Intelligence Community, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and other federal agencies. The laboratory has more than 8,000 staff members who are making critical contributions to a wide variety of nationally and globally significant technical and scientific challenges. Prior to this appointment, he served as the head of the Air and Missile Defense Sector at APL since 2005. Mr. Grant has extensive experience in the application of systems engineering to the design, development, test and evaluation, and fielding of complex systems involving multisensor integration, command and control, human-machine interfaces, and guidance and control systems. Mr. Grant’s engineering leadership in APL prototype systems for the Navy is now evidenced by capabilities on board over 100 cruisers, destroyers, and aircraft carriers of the U.S. Navy and its Allies. Mr. Grant began his career with APL developing human-machine interactive systems for Navy command and control and served as the technical lead for the analysis, design, rapid prototyping and testing of network based command and control systems in large-scale at-sea tests that proved out advanced capabilities, leading to rapid fielding in operational systems. He has since led development efforts in almost all aspects of Navy and Missile Defense Agency combat and weapon systems. He has served on national committees including as a technical advisor on studies for the Naval Studies Board of the National Academies as well as membership on the U.S. Strategic Command Senior Advisory Group. He is a member of the program committees for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Engineering for Professionals Systems Engineering Program of the JHU Whiting School of Engineering. Mr. Grant earned a B.S. in physics from the University of Maryland, College Park, and an M.S. in applied physics and an M.S. in computer science from JHU.

EDWARD R. GREER is the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Developmental Test and Evaluation. He served as the MIL Corporation (MILCORP) chief operating officer (COO) for the DoD Business Unit from July 2018 through September 2020. Prior to serving as COO, Mr. Greer served as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Greer Consulting, LLC, from December 2015 through June 2018 supporting various customers throughout industry and government. He served as the MILCORP COO from January 2013 through October 2015. Mr. Greer served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Developmental Test and Evaluation (DT&E) being sworn in March 2010. He also served concurrently as director, Test Resource Management Center. Prior to his political appointment and since 2002, Mr. Greer served as the deputy assistant commander for test and evaluation, Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland. He also served concurrently as the executive director, Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD). In 1998, Mr. Greer joined the Senior Executive Service

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Biographies of Committee Members." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Enabling DoD's Test Ranges and Infrastructure to Meet Threats and Operational Needs in the 21st Century: Unclassified Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26607.
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as director of the Atlantic Test Ranges and Facilities within NAWCAD. From 1995 to 1998, he served as principal deputy program manager for the E-6B Aircraft.

LT. GEN. (RET.) MICHAEL A. HAMEL is an independent consultant, is a space professional and leader, with a career in government and industry spanning over 40 years. He has diverse experience in all aspects of space policy, planning, development, and operations—including launch, satellite, ground, and integration programs. His experience has included senior leadership roles in the military space sector, as well as work in intelligence, civil and commercial/international space. Most recently, Gen. Hamel served in Lockheed Martin Space, both as vice president and general manager of commercial space and country executive for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In these roles, he was responsible for all commercial space business including communication and remote sensing programs, and new product development beginning in November 2013. In January 2017, Gen. Hamel became responsible for developing new business opportunities with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, including joint and in-country ventures. He retired from Lockheed Martin in August 2018. Prior to that employment, Gen. Hamel served as senior vice president of corporate strategy and relations for Orbital Sciences Corporation, where he was responsible for leading Orbital Science’s strategic planning, product and business development, government relations, and corporate communications. Gen. Hamel served in the U.S. Air Force for more than 30 years in a broad range of space operations, development, acquisition, policy, and command positions, concluding his military career in 2008 as a Lieutenant General. In his later years in the Air Force, Gen. Hamel was commander of the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center and Air Force program executive officer for space and commander of the 14th Air Force. He served in senior command and staff positions at U.S. Air Force Headquarters and Air Force Space Command and was military advisor to the vice president on defense, arms control, non-proliferation, and space policy. Gen. Hamel holds a bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy and a master’s degree in business administration from California State University. He is a graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces and the program in national and international security at Harvard University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a follow of the AIAA. He also serves on the boards of several corporate and advisory groups.

DANA “KEOKI” JACKSON is senior vice president and general manager, MITRE National Security Sector. In this role, he is responsible for the strategic growth and execution of MITRE’s national security programs, including support to DoD, the Department of Justice, and the Intelligence Community. He also leads the National Security Engineering Center. After more than two decades at Lockheed Martin, Dr. Jackson brings robust technical leadership and business experience, including directly contributing to the design, development, deployment, and flight operation of major national security spacecraft and programs. He also held management roles on the GPS III position, navigation, and timing program, and the Space-based Infrared System missile warning program. Dr. Jackson held several executive and senior management roles at Lockheed Martin, including chief technology officer and chief engineer, and vice president of engineering and program operations. He most recently served as vice president of supply chain and program performance and was responsible for program and supply chain management strategy, execution, and success across the enterprise. Before joining Lockheed Martin, Dr. Jackson was a NASA research fellow at the MIT in the field of human adaptation to the space environment. He is a fellow of the United Kingdom Royal Aeronautical Society and the AIAA. He is a member of the NAE, Sigma Xi, the International Academy of Astronautics, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He previously served on the Sandia Corporation board of directors, the AIAA Foundation board of trustees, the Georgia Institute of Technology president’s advisory board, the University of Maryland Clark School of Engineering board of visitors, and the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics visiting committee.

TERRY P. LEWIS is a senior associate and senior technical program manager at Booz Allen Hamilton where he is the chief engineer for electronic warfare. He recently served as the U2-Dragon Lady

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Biographies of Committee Members." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Enabling DoD's Test Ranges and Infrastructure to Meet Threats and Operational Needs in the 21st Century: Unclassified Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26607.
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technical director at Beale Air Force Base. Previously, he was a senior program manager and off-site executive for the Raytheon Company, where he led an organization focused on radio frequency engineering, reverse engineering, cyber technology development (offensive and defensive), rapid prototyping, and system development. He had responsibility for portfolio management and profit and loss. Dr. Lewis’s areas of expertise include command, control, communications, and information systems; intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance collection and dissemination; digitized battlespace systems; COMSEC I TRANSEC security for tactical systems; wireless network security; and network management authentication techniques for robust security architectures and key management. Dr. Lewis is an anti-tamper technologies pioneer and has developed architectures to prevent or reduce the ability of potential aggressors to reverse-engineer critical U.S. information technologies. He led an agile group of engineers focused on information operations (cyber applications) as they related to signal processing and embedded systems. Dr. Lewis has experience working on various missile systems while at Hughes Aircraft (later purchased by Raytheon). He was a Raytheon scholar and received the Most Promising Engineer of the Year Award conferred at the 2002 Black Engineer of the Year Award Conference. Dr. Lewis has been an executive board member of the National Academies Naval Studies Board and has served on multiple boards and participated in a multitude of committees and workshops for the National Academies, including the Committee on Distributed Remote Sensing for Anti-Submarine Warfare, the Committee on Optimizing the Air Force Acquisition Strategy of Secure and Reliable Electronics Components, and Committee for a Review of USN Cyber Defense Capabilities, and various Army Research Laboratory assessments. Dr. Lewis received an associate degree in pre-engineering from Queensborough Community College (1990), BEEE (1994) and the MEEE (1996) degrees from the City College of New York, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering systems (2012) from the Communications Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California.

LTC (RET.) ALBERT A. SCIARRETTA, PE, is president of and sole performer within CNS Technologies, Inc. He established this company in 1999 and works primarily as an independent consultant to various organizations. For almost 40 years, as a U.S. Army officer (retired as a Lieutenant Colonel) and civilian contractor, he has used his operational, research and development, operations research, prototyping and experimentation, mechanical engineering, and human performance assessment experience to assess the military benefits of technologies and develop technology investment strategies. As a consultant to the DoD Test Resource Management Center (TRMC), he has served more than 18 years as a subject matter expert for advanced test technologies. Currently, he is assisting TRMC in identifying test range infrastructure needs for testing counter-small aircraft system (C-sUAS) systems. In another consulting job, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons has asked Mr. Sciarretta to design and execute two tests at federal correctional complexes: (1) a test of commercial C-sUAS systems and (2) a test of commercial devices designed to use ad tech to remotely detect cell phones. Mr. Sciarretta is the chair of the ASA(ALT) Board on Army ROT&E, System Acquisition, and Logistics; as well as a member of the National Academies Board on Army Research and Development and the Intelligence Science and Technology Experts Group. He previously served as a member of the Board on Army Science and Technology. In the past, he chaired the 2017 ad hoc study on “Counter-Unmanned Aircraft System (CUAS) Capability for Battalion-and-Below Operations” He has also served as a committee member for six separate National Academies studies, including “Technology Development for Army Unmanned Ground Vehicle,” “Advanced Energetic Materials,” and “Making the Soldier Decisive on Future Battlefields.” Mr. Sciarretta served as a part-time contractor and then Special Government Employee (Highly Qualified Expert) in a think tank at the National Defense University from 2004 to 2017. In addition to conducting studies, he developed a course on prototyping and experimentation that was eventually incorporated into the Defense Acquisition University curriculum. For his first 7 years in the Army, Mr. Sciarretta served primarily in armored cavalry units. For the following 13 years, Mr. Sciarretta received advanced degrees, taught engineering and operations research at the U.S. Military Academy (1984-1987), and conducted individual research efforts for Army program managers for Mobile Protected Gun System, Howitzer Improvement Program, and Electromagnetic Railgun. He also

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Biographies of Committee Members." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Enabling DoD's Test Ranges and Infrastructure to Meet Threats and Operational Needs in the 21st Century: Unclassified Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26607.
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served as technology officer in the Armored Family of Vehicles Task Force, military assistant chief scientist in Army Materiel Command, and chief technology officer in the Army MANPRINT Office. Mr. Sciarretta has a B.S. degree in general engineering from the U.S. Military Academy (1973), and dual M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering and operations research from Stanford University (1982-1984). He completed a 1-year British military school undergraduate course on designing armored vehicles (1981) and a 6-month DoD program manager course (1982).

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Biographies of Committee Members." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Enabling DoD's Test Ranges and Infrastructure to Meet Threats and Operational Needs in the 21st Century: Unclassified Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26607.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Biographies of Committee Members." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Enabling DoD's Test Ranges and Infrastructure to Meet Threats and Operational Needs in the 21st Century: Unclassified Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26607.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Biographies of Committee Members." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Enabling DoD's Test Ranges and Infrastructure to Meet Threats and Operational Needs in the 21st Century: Unclassified Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26607.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Biographies of Committee Members." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Enabling DoD's Test Ranges and Infrastructure to Meet Threats and Operational Needs in the 21st Century: Unclassified Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26607.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Biographies of Committee Members." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Enabling DoD's Test Ranges and Infrastructure to Meet Threats and Operational Needs in the 21st Century: Unclassified Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26607.
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The Department of Defense operates several ranges across all service branches to test the effectiveness of military systems in the land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace domains. These ranges and infrastructure represent a critical part of the DoD acquisition and systems development process.

The DoD's Office of Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) has asked the Board on Army Research and Development to assess how effectively these ranges fulfill DOT&E's mission to determine operational effectiveness and lethality of systems currently under development. This study will specifically evaluate whether these ranges are prepared to simulate threats, countermeasures, and operations against near-peer adversaries. This publication is the unclassified version of the classified report.

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