Troy Henderson
Virginia Tech College of Engineering
Virginia Tech has been awarded a $3 million cooperative agreement with Space and Naval Warfare System Center Pacific (SPAWARPAC) in San Diego, Calif. SPAWARPAC's mission is research, development, acquisition, test and evaluation (RDAT&E) and full life cycle support of effective command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR), information operations (IO), enterprise information services (EIS), and space capabilities.
The principal investigator for the award is, Troy Henderson, assistant professor in the department of aerospace and ocean engineering, and the relationship will be managed by the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS) Center for Naval Systems, but over two dozen faculty members participated in the development of the proposal leading to the award.
The award calls for research in the following general research areas: general C41SR; command and control; communications; intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance. This will be a task order type of award, in which individual faculty members or teams of faculty members will be tasked to conduct individual research projects.
Henderson will lead a team of faculty members to visit SPAWARPAC early in 2012 to kick off the award.