Larry Smith serves as the International Point of Contact (IPOC) for aviation-related cooperative programs at the Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center on Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. Mr. Smith came to Huntsville in 2001 as a helicopter engineer for the Aviation Engineering Directorate. His AED assignments include airworthiness engineer for Chinook and Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Foreign Military Sales Manager, and Systems Engineering Manager.

Mr. Smith contributed to success of the Joint Shipboard Interoperability Program, the Army’s first Aircraft Shoot Down Assessment Team, and the Joint IPT for Unmanned Aircraft Systems. At post-graduate school, Mr. Smith studied helicopter ballistic damage and developed repair solutions using composite material and room-temperature-curing adhesive systems. Prior to joining the AMRDEC team, Larry served in the Navy in various military and civilian capacities, including: Annapolis graduate, junior officer at the Pentagon, flight school student, helicopter engineer, Air Force liaison engineer, program engineer, modeling & simulation standards developer, and training systems manager.

He also served as lead software development engineer on a Joint Simulation System program. From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Smith served as the Director for Security, Space and Facilities, US District Court, Middle District of Florida. In this capacity, he oversaw 5 simultaneous projects ranging from renovation to prospectus construction of courthouses. Mr. Smith is a Certified Systems Engineering Professional by the International Council on Systems Engineering. He supports INCOSE at both the local chapter and HQ levels. Larry has a wife and a son, and his hobbies include soccer, music, and hay farming.

Chris DeRock serves as an Affordability Analyst for the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense Program at Boeing in Huntsville, Al. Mr. DeRock has worked for Boeing since 2004, relocating to Huntsville in 2007. Mr. DeRock leads the effort to maximize cost benefits through leading trade studies, performing detailed cost/benefit analyses and modeling how requirements are driving costs throughout the lifecycle of the program. Prior to joining the GMD program, Mr. DeRock worked as a requirements analyst on the Space Shuttle's back-up flight software system in the areas of displays & control and systems management, special processes, and payloads. Chris served 8 years in the United States Army as a nuclear, biological, and chemical NCO.

Chris DeRock graduated with a baccalaureate degree in mathematics in 2002 from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He then earned a graduate certificate in project management in 2006 from Stevens Institute of Technology and followed up with a masters degree in systems engineering in 2008, also from Stevens Institute of technology. His hobbies include walking his two beagles, playing computer games, and reading.

Chester Williams is a Senior Systems Engineer, with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) supporting various Requirements Management and Architectual efforts. He completed twenty three years of military service in the U.S. Army as a Commissioned Officer: served ten years as an Air Defense Artillery Officer followed by thirteen years of Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation at various locations in Combined Arms Combat Developments (Mission Needs and Requirements development), TRADOC Systems Management for Army Battle Command Systems, Army Operational Testing, culminating in the last five years just prior to retirement working in the Depth & Simultaneous Attack Battle Lab, Fort Sill, OK.

Mr. Williams retired from the U.S. Army on 1 July 2004. He is married to Pamela, is the father of three beautiful daughters, and lives with his family in Magnolia Springs, Harvest, AL which also includes elderly Mother-in-Law. Education: B.A., M.A, Systems Engineering Certification with UAH (Jan 06).

Bill Sowder has over 50 years in the field of Ballistic Missile Defense. He retired from Boeing where he was the Test Director for the NMD/GMD Program. He was the Test and Evaluation IPT Lead that staffed, designed, and implemented the system-of-system flight and ground test activities. Bill participated in the early BMD efforts from Nike Zeus, Nike-X, SAFEGUARD, Site Defense, LOAD, SDI, and GPALS, and helped pave the way to the recent GMD deployment. Bill graduated from Ohio State in 1954 with a Bachelor in Aeronautical Engineering, and from UAH in System Engineering in 1976.

Guy Osborne is a Senior Systems Engineer at Dynetics, Inc. in Huntsville, AL. He currently serves on Lockheed Martin’s Targets and Countermeasures Prime Contract as the lead systems engineer of a delivery order to build, integrate, test, and launch target missiles for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency.

Mr. Osborne has served in U.S. defense for over 33 years, 22 of them as an active duty U.S. Air Force officer, and the last 11 years as a defense contractor supporting U.S. missile defense efforts. He has extensive international experience with NATO and other allies and has brought his expertise to bear on both operational and technical intelligence programs, as well as to missile defense. Mr. Osborne holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Central Florida and a Master of Aeronautical Science degree from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and is a certified DoD Acquisition Professional in the area of System Planning, Research, Development & Engineering.

Chris DeRock serves as an Affordability Analyst for the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense Program at Boeing in Huntsville, Al. Mr. DeRock has worked for Boeing since 2004, relocating to Huntsville in 2007. Mr. DeRock leads the effort to maximize cost benefits through leading trade studies, performing detailed cost/benefit analyses and modeling how requirements are driving costs throughout the lifecycle of the program. Prior to joining the GMD program, Mr. DeRock worked as a requirements analyst on the Space Shuttle's back-up flight software system in the areas of displays & control and systems management, special processes, and payloads. Chris served 8 years in the United States Army as a nuclear, biological, and chemical NCO.

Chris DeRock graduated with a baccalaureate degree in mathematics in 2002 from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He then earned a graduate certificate in project management in 2006 from Stevens Institute of Technology and followed up with a masters degree in systems engineering in 2008, also from Stevens Institute of technology. His hobbies include walking his two beagles, playing computer games, and reading.

Sam Loo is a Software Engineer at Lockheed Martin in Huntsville AL. She currently serves as Software Engineer for Concurrent, Testing, Training and Operations (CTTO) for the Missile Defense National Team (MDNTB).

Sam Loo completed a baccalaureate degree in Computer Science in 1993 from University of Alabama in Huntsville. She currently attends the Florida Institute of Technology completing a Master's degree in Computer Information Systems.

Bob Robinson is an IEEE Senior Member, Certified Software Development Professional (CSDP), and Boeing Associate Technical Fellow in embedded software systems. He currently works with the Boeing Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) Advanced Network & Space Systems (ANSS) group in Huntsville, Alabama, on the NASA ARES I IUA contract. He has supported the U.S. Department of Homeland Security programs and on systems engineering activities for Boeing’s efforts in Saudi Arabia and ground robotics. Bob led SPACEHAB program software engineering for 13 years, tailored program policies and procedures for conformance to SEI capability maturity model process discipline guidelines. He worked as systems and software engineer on the Carnegie Mellon Red Team for DARPA Grand Challenge desert races, and subsequently handled systems engineering for unmanned vehicles in urban combat scenarios, as well as software defined radios for U.S. Army and Air Force customers.

Bob has served in a series of software, hardware, and systems engineering roles over the past 25 years in homeland security, unmanned vehicle systems, commercial space carriers, military ballistic defense, commercial nuclear safety programs, and the Riyadh, Saudi Arabia airport. After 6 years active Navy duty in the early 70s, Bob completed multiple degrees at Louisiana Tech, then worked for Avco Electronics, SAIC, Unisys, and GTE in Huntsville before arriving at McDonnell Douglas in 1991, merging with The Boeing Company in 1997. Bob earned a Masters in Systems Architecting and Engineering from University of Southern California in 2004 (Software Engineering specialization track), Bachelors in Mathematics/Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from Louisiana Tech (1980), and completed Masters in Electrical Engineering coursework at Louisiana Tech (1981). Bob is active in twenty IEEE Standards Association committees/working groups, the SAE AS-4 Unmanned Systems standards committee, and he serves on IEEE, INCOSE, and AUVSI manuscript review teams, and reviews abstracts/manuscripts on Boeing internal conference committees.

Bob created a web-based CMMI Process Improvement discussion group on a weekend between a two-week NASA JSC Joint Integrated Simulation session. He solicited subject matter expertise from SEI and worldwide consultants, and he moderates group interactions.

In Huntsville, Bob manages the IEEE and INCOSE websites, and serves on several area technical conference planning committees annually. Bob was the 2008 Huntsville Association of Technical Societies (HATS) IEEE Professional of the Year, currently on the HATS board as 2009 HATS president-elect and INCOSE delegate, and serves on various forum/conference planning committees. He works with area youth to promote excellence in science and technology pursuits in Science and Engineering Fairs, Future Cities Competitions, and other technology based events for middle school, high school, and university students. Bob served in 2003-2007 as INCOSE Huntsville Chapter member chair, then as communications chair and program publicist, coupled with webmaster duties.

Jack Stockdale is Senior Director of Engineering for Jacobs ESTS Group supporting Marshall Space Flight Center responsible for close to 800 engineers and 170 task orders. He has Both a Bachelors and a Masters degree in Mathematics from Wichita State University.

His 30 years of experience has been the areas of Program Management and Systems Engineering and Integration, including multiple assignments supporting both NASA and the Air Force. Previous Jacob's assignments have included Jacobs Technology Senior Corporate System Engineer, Vice President and General Manager of Jacobs support to Secretary of the Air Force, Deputy General Manager of the Jacobs TEAS contract at Eglin Air Force Base. While at Eglin, he also served as the TEAS Technical Chief of Systems Engineering dealing with Weapon System Integration. Earlier in his career he provided Systems Engineering expertise at Boeing Wichita serving as SE Manager, Chief Engineer and Program Manager for a number of weapon integration programs.

Janet Fitzgibbon is a Lockheed Martin (LMCO) Senior Systems Staff Engineer with over 30 years System Engineering experience. Since 2002 she has filled various roles over the system development life cycle; planning, analyzing, designing, testing, and managing both large and small projects on Missile Defense Industry programs in Huntsville, AL., Colorado Springs, CO., and Valley Forge, PA. She graduated with a BA in mathematics from Immaculate College in PA. and prior to 2002, she focused much of her career on Object Oriented (OO) technologies with an emphasis on Use Case development and modeling. She wrote, published, and presented Use Case, OO, UML (Unified Modeling Language), UML2, and SysML (System Modeling Language) technical information at LMCO Internal Conferences, the Intelligence Conference, the Modeling and Simulation Symposium, the 1994 OBJEX Conference, and was part of a panel discussion at the 1994 OOPSLA Conference (the International Conference on Object Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications). In 2000, she presented a seminar on Use Cases and UML for the INCOSE Delaware Valley Chapter (“Application of Use Cases to Requirements Management") given at the Naval Air Systems Command in Lakehurst, NJ.
 
Ms. Fitzgibbon and her husband have 4 children and 4 grandchildren and spend much of their free time visiting their spread-out brood. When not visiting, they cycle, read, and attend as many musical events as possible. 

Joe Hale has worked with NASA at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) since 1985. He received a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Virginia in 1976 and an M.S. in Applied Behavior Science (Psychology) from Virginia Tech in 1981. He continued graduate studies at Virginia Tech through 1984 completing all coursework for a Ph.D. in Human Factors Engineering while participating as a Graduate Co-op Student at MSFC. In 1990, he received an M.S. in Systems Management from the Florida Tech.

Mr. Hale is currently Lead for the Ares Project Software Configuration Management. Prior to that he was the Lead for the Ares Project Modeling and Simulation Integrated Management activity and was the MSFC representative for the development of the NASA Standard for Models and Simulations. He also served as Lead Systems Engineer for the Next Generation Launch Technologies’ Advanced Engineering Environment. Much of his prior work at MSFC was as a Human Factors Engineer, working various projects, including Spacelab and the International Space Station. He spent five years as Team Lead for the Human Engineering and Analysis Team.

Mr. Hale is a Certified Human Factors Professional (CHFP) (Board of Certification in Professional Ergonomics) and a founding member and first president of the Tennessee Valley Chapter of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES).

David Swinney is a Professor of Systems Engineering for the Defense Acquisition University (South Region). He teaches courses in systems engineering, test and evaluation, and information technology. He is a member of the DoD Acquisition Corps and holds level 3 certifications in the Program Systems Engineer, Program Management, Test and Evaluation, and Information Technology career fields.

Mr. Swinney came to Huntsville in 2005 after retiring from active duty in the US Air Force. He has extensive experience leading teams in the engineering management of large and complex aerospace systems including the development, test, fielding and support of large body aircraft, space launch vehicles, satellites, and ballistic missiles, and their associated test, launch, and support facilities. He holds an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from Oklahoma State University and a graduate degree in astronautical engineering, from the Air Force Institute of Technology. David has a wife and four children, and his hobbies include music, fencing, and shooting.