Symposium Leadership Team

General Chair

Bob Rassa

General Chair

IEEE Systems Council (Raytheon)

Technical Program Committee Chair

Holly Dunlap

Senior Principal Engineer

NDIA (Raytheon)

United States

Holly Dunlap

Biography

Holly Dunlap, Senior Principal Engineer, Raytheon

Ms. Holly Dunlap is a Senior Principal Engineer responsible for maturing and implementing a system security engineering and holistic approach to program protection to manage and balance the security-relevant risks within platform or embedded defense systems. She leads Raytheon strategic initiatives to integrate system security into standard processes.

As the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) Systems Security Engineering Committee Chair, Ms. Dunlap stimulates collaboration with industry, government, FFRDCs, and academia to address common SSE challenges. She developed and chaired the NDIA Cyber Resilient and Secure Weapon Systems Summit in 2017. As a recognized industry subject matter expert, she has contributed to the 2019 Secretary of the Navy Cybersecurity Readiness Review and presented at the Potomac Institute Tiers of Trust Workshop 2017, the National Academy of Science Air Force Board 2016 and Defense Science Board Cyber Supply Chain Task Force 2015. She is a member of the Air Force Cybersecurity Industry Technical Advisory Group and is internationally published in the INCOSE Insight magazine. Her career has included working for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Federal Manufacturing and Technology National Security Campus operated by Honeywell and with the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Director of Defense Research and Engineering, Technical Intelligence.

Ms. Dunlap has extensive experience in manufacturing, cyber supply chain risk management and is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. She has in-depth experience working throughout the product life cycle from cradle to grave: concept development, design, prototyping, modeling and simulation, manufacturing, testing, maintenance support and dismantlement. She has successfully lead teams through this process for strategic enduring weapon systems as well as custom rapid fielding products.

Ms. Dunlap has a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from the University of Kansas and an MBA from Webster University

Positions & Affiliations

Senior Principal Engineer

NDIA (Raytheon)

United States

Technical Program Review Committee Chair

Steve Holt

IEEE Systems Council

Technical Program Committee Co-chair

Beth Wilson

INCOSE (Retired)

Technical Program Committee Members

Kathleen Kramer

IEEE Aerospace & Electronic Systems Society

Tom McDermott

Deputy Director

Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC)

United States

Tom McDermott

Biography

Mr. Tom McDermott is a Systems Engineering consultant, practitioner, and research leader. He serves as the Deputy Director of the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ. The SERC is a University Affiliated Research Center sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. With the SERC he develops new research strategies and is leading research on Digital Engineering transformation, education, security, and artificial intelligence applications. Mr. McDermott also teaches system architecture concepts, systems thinking and decision making, and engineering leadership. He is a lecturer in Georgia Tech’s Professional Education college. He consults with a number of organizations on enterprise modeling for transformational change, and often serves as a systems engineering expert on government major program reviews. He serves as the Director of Strategic Integration for the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE).

Mr. McDermott has over 33 years of background and experience in technical and management disciplines, including 15 years at the Georgia Institute of Technology and 18 years with Lockheed Martin. He served as Director of Research and Deputy Director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) from September 2007 until August 2013, including Interim Vice President and GTRI Director May 2010-January 2011. Prior to GTRI, he spent 18 years with Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company (1984-2002). He held a director level position with Lockheed Martin from April 1999 – May 2002, serving as Product Team Lead and Division Manager for Lockheed Martin’s F-22 Raptor Avionics Team. He successfully led the F-22 Avionics team to Raptor #4004 avionics first flight in January 2001.

Positions & Affiliations

Deputy Director

Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC)

United States

Melinda Reed

OUSD (R&E)

James H. Lambert

Professor of Engineering Systems and Environment

University of Virginia

United States

James H. Lambert

Biography

Professor James H. Lambert is a Professor of Engineering Systems and Environment (Program in Systems Engineering, Program in Civil Engineering), Director of the Center for Risk Management of Engineering Systems, and Member of the Technical Advisory Council of the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Logistics Systems, each at the University of Virginia. He is Chair of the Fifth World Congress on Risk (Cape Town, South Africa, 2019), a Past President (2015-2016) of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA), and Chair of the SRA Annual Meeting with over 800 registered participants (Washington DC, 2015). He is a Fellow of the IEEE (F.IEEE), Fellow of the ASCE (F.ASCE), Fellow of the SRA (F.SRA), Diplomate (D.WRE) of the American Academy of Water Resources Engineers, member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, member of the International Council on Systems Engineering, and licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.). He is Editor-in-Chief of the Springer journal Environment Systems & Decisions. He is Area Editor of the Wiley journal Risk Analysis. He is Associate Editor of the ASCE/ASME Journal of Risk & Uncertainty in Engineering Systems. His publications appear in the above journals and Wiley journal Risk Analysis, Elsevier journal Reliability Engineering and System Safety, ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems, Military Operations Research Society Journal, IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics, Elsevier journal Accident Analysis and Prevention, et al. His research sponsors included US National Science Foundation, Virginia Center for Innovative Technology, Commonwealth of Virginia Office of the Governor, Port of Virginia, US Army Corps of Engineers, US Federal Aviation Administration, NASA, US Department of Homeland Security, US Department of Energy, President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection, US DoD Joint Program Office for Special Technology Countermeasures, US Department of Agriculture, US Federal Highway Administration, Virginia Tobacco Commission, Fermata LLC, and others. He has served on committees of the National Academy of Medicine (Standing Committee on Health Threats Resilience and Workforce Resilience), National Cooperative Highway Research Program, Aviation Cooperative Research Program, and Transit Cooperative Research Program. He served as a Delegate (2012-2015) of AASHTO to the World Roads Association Congress (PIARC). He represents the University of Virginia to the Council of Engineering Systems Universities (CESUN), whose annual meeting will convene at the University of Virginia in Spring 2021. He received a Ph.D. and M.S. in Civil Engineering at the University of Virginia, and a B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering with a Certificate in Engineering Physics at Princeton University.

Professor Lambert's interests are engineering systems and risk analysis, with application to (i) advanced mobile grid services and network of chargers of fleet electric vehicles, (ii) enterprise resilience of national wireless broadband network in public safety, (iii) simulation of operations and strategic priorities of maritime container ports, (iv) logistics and industrial supply chains for aviation biofuels, (v) risk management of economic development to infrastructure corridors, (vi) population behaviors and community resilience in radiological and other disasters, (vii) transportation strategic plans influenced by climate combining with emergent and future conditions, (viii) priority setting for airports with risk of runway incursions, and (ix) security of critical infrastructure systems related to embedded hardware devices.

Positions & Affiliations

Professor of Engineering Systems and Environment

University of Virginia

United States

Logan O. Mailloux

United States Air Force

United States