Glen Hewitt - (co-investigator):
has twelve years experience serving as a Scientific and Technical Advisor
for Human Factors in Federal Aviation Administration Research and
Acquisitions. Previously, he conducted human factors support for system
operational test and evaluation as a Senior Principal Scientist with the
Atlantic Research Corporation. Prior to that, he served with the Department
of Defense where he conducted manpower and force planning, modeling, and
analyses; and was instrumental in the development and implementation of
Manpower and Personnel Integration (MANPRINT) and Human System Integration (HSI)
programs. In 1987, he fulfilled a Fellowship Program in Human Factors and
Operations Research with the RAND Corporation. He holds a BS in Engineering
from the United States Military Academy and an MS in Systems Management and
Safety from the University of Southern California.
Steve Murrill- (co-investigator):
received a B.S. in electrical engineering from the
University of Maryland, College Park in 1985. From 1985 to 1996, he worked with
a team conducting research in the area of radiation effects on tactical and
strategic electronics/systems at the U.S. Army Harry Diamond Laboratories/Army
Research Laboratory. For the past 9 years he has been a member of the Army
Research Laboratory's Electro-Optics and Photonics Division where he has worked
on the advancement of passive, uncooled and cooled thermal imaging technology,
active 3-D laser radar imaging technology, and super resolution image
enhancement technology for undersampled thermal imaging systems. In 2002,
Mr. Murrill received a M.S. in Applied Biomedical Engineering from Johns
Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Most recently, he was the POC and
technical lead for the development of a computer-based,
air-traffic-control-tower (ATCT) visibility analysis tool for the Federal
Aviation Administration. Mr. Murrill has authored or co-authored over 20
published Army reports and over 10 published open-literature papers. He is a
current member of IEEE and SPIE.