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Outstanding Portfolio of Programs
Mr. Raymond Balcerak
Microsystems Technology Office
Dr. Dennis Healy
Microsystems Technology Office
Dr. Alexander Kott
Information Exploitation Office
Dr. Amy Kruse
Defense Sciences Office
Ms. Khine Latt
Strategic Technology Office
Dr. Steve Pappert
Microsystems Technology Office
Dr. Dennis Polla
Microsystems Technology Office
Dr. Carey Schwartz
Defense Sciences Office
Dr. Mark Rosker
Microsystems Technology Office
Mr. Raymond Balcerak - Microsystems Technology Office
Mr. Balcerak’s vision and leadership resulted in significant technical breakthroughs in advanced focal plane arrays for the Department of Defense. The Vertically Integrated Sensor Array, Photon Counting Arrays, High Operating Temperature Midwave, and Adaptable Focal Plane Array programs have developed higher performance detector components for a variety of weapon systems. As a result of his efforts, the Joint Forces will maintain important advantages in imaging, target identification, and target tracking across a broad range of operational missions.
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Dr. Dennis Healy - Microsystems Technology Office
Dr. Healy’s programs represent significant accomplishments in applied mathematics and microsystems design and play a central role in the optimization, control, and exploitation of microelectronic and optical systems. His Multiple Optical Nonredundant Aperture Generalized Sensors, Nonlinear Mathematics for Mixed Signal Microsystems, Advanced Digital Receiver, and Space-Time Adaptive Processing programs exploit the interface of hardware and applied mathematics or algorithms to drive technology beyond that possible with hardware advances alone. Dr. Healy’s determination to explore the co-design of hardware and algorithms will lead to important new capabilities that benefit the Department of Defense.
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Dr. Alexander Kott - Information Exploitation Office
Dr. Kott’s vision and leadership resulted in significant accomplishments in conflict modeling and decision-making. Under his leadership, the Real-time Adversarial Intelligence and Decision-making and Conflict Modeling, Planning, and Outcomes Experimentation programs deliver new tools that help warfighters make smarter decisions faster. The technology Dr. Kott developed will reduce the time needed to plan complex military operations across the spectrum of conflict.
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Dr. Amy Kruse - Defense Sciences Office
Dr. Kruse advanced the field of neuroscience through her management of programs that include Improving Warfighter Information Intake Under Stress, Neurotechnology for Intelligence Analysts, Accelerated Learning, Neovision, and Cognitive Technology Threat Warning System.
Creating the concept of “operational neuroscience,” she has brought together a community of national and international researchers to work in a technology area important to the Department of Defense. Dr. Kruse’s programs are helping transform neuroscience from a laboratory discipline to one that is doing advanced research to deliver revolutionary capabilities important to our warfighters.
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Ms. Khine Latt - Strategic Technology Office
Ms. Latt created revolutionary approaches to advances in submarine technology through her leadership of the Tango Bravo and Underwater Express programs. As a result of her outstanding efforts, the U.S. Navy will have radically new design approaches for a new class of submarines that are equivalent to a Virginia-class submarine, but are smaller and less expensive to build. Her work to vastly improve subsurface, at sea, and other maritime platforms and technologies add important new capabilities that benefit how the U.S. Navy and the Department of Defense operate.
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Dr. Pappert programs are developing the key component technology in radio frequency (RF) photonics that will deliver critical system drivers for the next generation of RF apertures. His vision and technical insight have led to breakthroughs in component linearity, noise performance, and RF isolation. The legacy of his programs—including the Ultra-Wideband Multifunction Photonic Transmit/Receive Module, Advanced Precision Optical Oscillator, Linear Photonic RF Front-End Technology, and Technology for Frequency Agile Digitally Synthesized Transmitter—are changing how future RF apertures for electronic warfare and signals intelligence are architected.
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Dr. Dennis Polla - Microsystems Technology Office
Dr. Polla demonstrated considerable initiative and technical and program management skills in the development of micro/ nanosystems technology. Under his leadership, the Micro Gas Analyzers, NEMS/MEMS Fundamentals, and other programs achieved technical breakthroughs in areas others believed were not possible. His determination to ignore conventional wisdom will lead to important new capabilities that benefit the Department of Defense.
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Dr. Carey Schwartz - Defense Sciences Office
Dr. Schwartz’s vision and leadership of the Discovery and Exploitation of Structure in Algorithms (DESA), Geospatial Representation and Analysis (GEOSTAR), Mathematical Time Reversal, and Protein Design Process programs led to innovations in key areas including signal and image processing, target recognition, structural biology, sensing of biological warfare threat agents, and design of complex systems. His accomplishments dramatically improved the warfighting capabilities of all Services and the Joint Forces.
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Dr. Mark Rosker - Microsystems Technology Office
Dr. Rosker’s outstanding leadership of the Wide Band Gap Semiconductors for RF Applications, Integrated Sensor is Structure (ISIS), Submillimeter Wave Imaging Focal Plane Technology (SWIFT), Scalable Millimeter-wave Architectures for Reconfigurable Transceivers (SMART), and Compound Semiconductor Materials on Silicon (COSMOS) programs significantly advanced the performance and speed of radio frequency and millimeter-wave electronics. The breakthroughs achieved in these programs form the foundation for increasingly sophisticated and optimized circuits for future generations of steerable phase arrays that will lead to important new capabilities for the Joint Forces.
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