K. Ronald Laughery, Chief Scientist
Education
Ph.D., Industrial Engineering,
State University of N.Y. at Buffalo (1982)
M.S., Industrial Engineering,
State University of N.Y. at Buffalo (1977)
B.S., Industrial Engineering,
State University of N.Y. at Buffalo (1975)
Employment
Micro Analysis and Design from 1984 to present
Calspan Advanced Technology Center from 1975 to 1984
Summary of Experience
Dr. Laughery has twenty-eight years experience in the management of contract research, development, and engineering. He was a Senior Systems Engineer with Calspan Advanced Technology Center for nine years. At Calspan, he was responsible for a number of large programs in the areas of simulation; human factors engineering; training systems analysis, design, and evaluation; and systems analysis. Since establishing Micro Analysis and Design in 1984, he has managed contracts for the development of computer modeling and simulation languages, the design and evaluation of training simulators, the analysis of training requirements, and the development of tools for many military human-systems integration programs. Additionally, he has participated in the application of the simulation tools he and Micro Analysis and Design have developed for the Army, Air Force, and private industry. Currently, he is leading the $116M Army program in Advanced Decision Architectures. In this program, a combination of the computer and cognitive sciences are being exploited to provide technology and design principles to enhance human situation awareness and decision making.
In addition to his technical and managerial role at Micro Analysis and Design, Dr. Laughery also is responsible for new business development. As part of this role, he is a frequent presenter at technical meetings and has published well over 100 articles in journals, proceedings, and books. Additionally, he spends a significant portion of his time meeting with current customers and developing relationships with potential customers.
As the President of Micro Analysis and Design, he has steadily built the company with no outside capital.
Susan G. Archer, Director of Operations
Education
M.E., Engineering Management,
University of Colorado (1989)
B.S., Mathematics,
Montana State University, Bozeman (1982)
Employment
Micro Analysis and Design from 1985 to present
Goodyear Aerospace from 1983 to 1985
Texas Instruments from 1982 to 1983
Summary of Experience
Ms. Archer is the Director of Operations at MA&D. In this position, she is ultimately responsible for ensuring contracts meet their technical and schedule performance requirements. She is responsible for negotiating all contracts and for authoring all subcontracts at MA&D. In addition to her responsibilities in that capacity, she has also served as the project leader for several individual projects at Micro Analysis and Design.
Ms. Archer is the Program Manager of the Advanced Decision Architectures (ADA) Collaborative Technology Alliance (CTA). In this effort, she manages a partnership of 12 industry, academic and Government organizations in a $57M basic research effort to advance the state of the art in cognitive and computer science.
Ms. Archer is the Program Manager and Technical Lead of the Army Research Laboratory's Improved Manpower and Personnel Integration Tool (IMPRINT) effort. This is a software development effort to develop an advanced integrated Manpower, Personnel and Training (MPT) analytical tool for the Army. She was also the Program Manager for HARDMAN III, the predecessor to IMPRINT. Ms. Archer manages several contracts involving human-systems integration (HSI) efforts, including the National Missile Defense (NMD) program and the Semi-Automated IMINT Processor (SAIP) program. Currently, much of her technical work has involved the study of how Command and Control (C2) organizations can be most effective.
Ms. Archer began her career as a programmer, and was involved in the software development of the commercial product Micro Saint and continues to be directly involved in many software development efforts at Micro Analysis and Design. She has been primarily responsible for the development of software tools to aid the Army in factoring manpower, personnel and training issues into the earliest stages of the materiel acquisition process.
