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The MITRE Corporation's Center for Advanced Aviation System Development
(MITRE/CAASD) Senior Management Team oversees the diversity of topics
MITRE/CAASD is called upon to work. In addition, the senior managers
work closely with counterparts in the Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA) and in civilian agencies worldwide to effect beneficial evolution
of Air Traffic Management systems.
Senior Vice President,
MITRE
General Manager, MITRE/CAASD
Agam N. Sinha, PhD
 Dr.
Agam Sinha is senior vice president and general manager of MITRE's
Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD). CAASD supports
the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Transportation Security
Administration (TSA), and international civil aviation authorities
in addressing operational and technical challenges to meet aviation's
capacity, efficiency, safety, and security needs
Full Biography
Director, Business Resource Center
Detlev A. Foellmer
 Detlev
A. Foellmer is the director of CAASD's Business Resource Center.
His responsibility is the management of the fiscal, financial, business
and support services/process functions that support the FAA, international
and government systems clients, and other CAASD initiatives. In
addition, he is a member of the MITRE Business Council.
Before joining MITRE in 2000, Mr. Foellmer was the chief financial
officer and administrator for the Koop Foundation Inc., a not-for-profit
organization chaired by former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop
and dedicated to advancements in technology applications to healthcare.
Prior to that, he served in various senior financial management
positions at PRC Inc. and GTE /Contel Federal Systems. Earlier in
his career, he worked on the corporate staff for the Marriott Corporation
and for an international medical instrumentation and supply company.
Foellmer earned his bachelor's and master's of business administration
from the University of Maryland
Director, Joint-Agency
Transportation Security
C. Vanessa Fong
 Vanessa
Fong is MITRE/CAASD's director for Joint-Agency Transportation Security.
Her major responsibilities are on cross-agency (FAA, JPDO, DHS,
DOS, DOD, intelligence community) integration, information sharing,
and inter-operability in Transportation Security.
Ms. Fong was the first director for the NAS Enterprise Architecture
Council (NEAC), created in 2004 to apply enterprise engineering
and integrated domain expertise to CAASD's NAS effort. She’s
contributed to many Air Traffic Management (ATM) projects, overseeing
the ATM laboratory and prototyping efforts, and led the development
and technology transfer of the User Request Evaluation Tool (URET).
She has a B.S. in chemistry from the National Tsing-Hua University
in Taiwan, an M.S. chemistry from the University of Wisconsin and
M.S. in computer science from the Johns Hopkins University. In 2001,
U.S. Black/Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology Magazine
recognized her as "Outstanding Woman Engineer of Color."
Director, Safety
and Performance-Based Services
David G. Hamrick
 David
Hamrick is the director of safety and performance-based services.
His current areas of responsibility include aviation system safety,
performance-based navigation, navigation services, surveillance
services, and aviation information broadcast services. Prior to
this, Mr. Hamrick was responsible for aviation communications systems
and information system security. He has over 20 years experience
in CNS/ATM system modernization while at MITRE.
Prior to joining MITRE, Mr. Hamrick worked at AT&T Bell Telephone
Laboratories where he helped design digital voice switching systems.
He holds a BS in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from the
University of Virginia and an MS in Operations Research from Stanford
University. He is a member of IEEE, ATCA, AIAA, and Tau Beta Pi.
Director, Spectrum
Management
Christopher J. Hegarty, D.Sc.
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Hegarty, is the Director for Spectrum Management. He has been a
technical advisor to the U.S. Government in a number of international
forums including ICAO, ITU, and bilateral/multilateral negotiations
regarding the compatibility of GPS with foreign satellite navigation
systems.
Dr. Hegarty is a member of the Program Management Committee of
RTCA, Inc. and co-chair of RTCA Special Committee 159 (GPS). Since
1997, he has been the editor of the Institute of Navigation (ION)’s
quarterly journal, NAVIGATION.
In 2005, Dr. Hegarty was a recipient of the Department of State’s
Superior Honor Award, and also the ION’s Johannes Kepler Award.
He was the co-editor/co-author of the Artech House text Understanding
GPS: Principles and Applications, 2nd Edition, 2006. He has
authored or coauthored over 40 conference/journal articles on GPS
and spread spectrum receiver design. He received his D.Sc. in electrical
engineering from GWU in 1997.
Director, System
Transformation and Security
International Director, Middle East,
Africa and Canada
Gregg A. Leone
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Director of System Transformation and Security for MITRE's Center
for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD), Gregg Leone's
responsibilities include leadership for transportation security
projects, future vision planning and transformation efforts, as
well as ATM/CNS research computing.
Mr. Leone is also International Director for CAASD's work in Canada,
the Middle East, and Africa. Since joining MITRE in 1983, Mr. Leone
has held several positions. From 1996 to 2001, he was Site Leader
of CAASD's Atlantic City office, which supports the Federal Aviation
Administration Technical Center. From 1989 to 1992, Leone helped
the German Bureau of Flight Safety develop and implement a major
system upgrade.
Mr. Leone has a M.S., in Aeronautical Science from Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical University, and a B.S. in Computer Science and Applied
Systems Software from Rochester Institute of Technology.
International
Director, Latin America and Europe
Bernard Lisker, PhD
 Dr.
Bernard Lisker is International Director for Latin America and Europe
at the MITRE Center for Advanced Aviation System Development. His
responsibilities include transfer of technology to nations working
with MITRE in technical fields such as airport capacity and delay/saturation,
airspace design, noise modeling, and terminal area navigation (RNAV).
Since joining MITRE in 1986, Dr. Lisker has worked on many FAA
research and development projects, one of which led to acceptance
of dependent instrument approaches to converging runways. He also
worked with the FAA on the development of simultaneous instrument
approaches to converging runways, using O’Hare airport as
a case study. Internationally, he has been involved with projects
in Belgium, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Argentina, Ecuador,
Mexico, Singapore, Taiwan, and many other nations throughout the
world.
Dr. Lisker is an Electrical Engineer. He also holds Master of
Science and doctorate degrees in Flight Transportation from the
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology.
Chief Scientist,
Operations Evolution and Integration
John O. Pyburn
 John Pyburn
is MITRE/CAASD's Chief scientist of Operations Evolution and Integration.
His responsibilities include the overall development, coordination
and integration of CAASD's work program for the FAA. For over 14
years, Pyburn has worked on a broad set of projects and initiatives
within CAASD, starting with early prototype/concept work on collaborative
decision-making that began in the 1980s. Pyburn was part of the
first Integration and Interaction lab (I-Lab) team. His experience
on TFM ranges from systems engineering support on the Enhanced Traffic
Management System and other deployed capabilities, to advanced concept
development and exploration.
Pyburn was one of the key staff working on the development and
enhancement of our work for FAA's Air Traffic Service, including
work on the procedures outcome. He was a leader on MITRE/CAASD's
move into supporting the FAA's implementation of area navigation
procedures, and, more recently, has been a core member of CAASD's
and the FAA's Operational Evolution Plan team. Pyburn has a bachelor's
degree in computer management information systems from the University
of Maryland and a master's of science in software systems engineering
from George Mason University.
Chief Engineer
Glenn F. Roberts, PhD
As MITRE/CAASD's chief engineer, Glenn Roberts is responsible for
formulating and executing MITRE's aviation research strategy, leading
the execution of CAASD's laboratory evolution and capital investment
strategies, directing strategies for technical publishing and information
sharing, coordinating collaboration with industry and the academic
community, and managing the protection and technology transfer of
MITRE's aviation-related intellectual property.
Since joining MITRE in 1984, Dr. Roberts has served MITRE/CAASD
in a number of capacities, including serving as information technology
architect, managing and developing analytical and human-in-the-loop
simulations of the national airspace system, and developing aviation
weather analysis and dissemination systems. Prior to coming to MITRE,
he developed innovation diffusion models and other analytical tools
and techniques for the analysis of energy-saving procedures and
technologies for the U.S. Department of Energy. He received Ph.D.,
Master of Engineering, and Bachelor of Science degrees in Electrical,
Computing and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Director, Systems
Operations and Performance
-Acting Director, System Evolution and Domain Integration
Lillian Zarrelli Ryals
 Lillian
Ryals is currently the director of the Systems Operations and Performance
division and acting director of System Evolution and Domain Integration.
Ms. Ryals is responsible for leading a broad range of work program
activities that support the national airspace system modernization.
Specific responsibilities include oversight and leadership for MITRE/CAASD's
support to the FAA's National Airspace Redesign; airspace modeling;
new procedures development in the terminal, en route, and oceanic
environment; metrics development and assessments; system capacity
and performance assessments; and economic and policy analysis.
Ms. Ryals' over 21-year career in aviation in both the public and
private sectors also includes experience in the CNS areas, particularly
in the areas of airborne collision avoidance and air/ground voice
and data communications.
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