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Chief Scientist
Dr. Jeff Ridder is Chief Scientist, Autonomy Systems at SSCI. His primary responsibility is to provide the strategy and vision to shepherd autonomy technologies from R&D to products and programs of record. His particular focus is on autonomy and battle management for multi-domain command and control, air domain and electronic warfare collaborative autonomy. He has over 30 years of leadership and technology development experience in government R&D labs, federally funded research and development centers, and large and small aerospace and defense companies. He has been a key performer on multiple major DoD studies resulting in major programs of record; led multiple S&T programs with DARPA, ONR and AFRL in battle management, collaborative autonomy, and electronic warfare; developed a distributed, multi-domain battle management reference architecture for a major prime contractor with application in multiple significant programs; and worked on the Space Shuttle rocket motors now adapted for Artemis. He holds BS, MS and Ph.D. degrees in aerospace engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Scientific Systems advances the possibilities of mission autonomy through pioneering innovations in navigation, mission planning and autonomous systems. Our solutions enable unmanned systems to implement commander’s intent, ensure mission effectiveness, and dramatically shorten operational timelines.
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