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R. Scott Erwin (Kirtland AFB) R. Scott Erwin received a B. S. in Aeronautical Engineering
from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1991, and the M. S. and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1993 and 1997,
respectively. He has been an employee of the Air Force Research Laboratory, Space Vehicles Directorate (AFRL/RV) located at Kirtland AFB, NM, from 1997
to the present. He is currently a Principal Research Aerospace Engineer within Space Vehicles Directorate. He is an Associate Fellow of AIAA and a Senior
Member of IEEE, and has authored or co-authored over 100 technical publications in the areas of spacecraft dynamic, controls, and communications, and autonomy.
He was recently selected as the recipient of the 2016 IEEE Judith A. Resnick Space Award for "for outstanding contributions to spacecraft vibration isolation
technologies and ultra-precision pointing of large flexible space platforms." His current research interests are autonomous spacecraft & the interplay
between communications, estimation, and control in autonomous, networked multi-spacecraft systems.
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Frederick A. Leve (AFOSR) From 2009 until 2015, Dr. Frederick Aaron Leve was a Research
Aerospace Engineer in the Guidance, Navigation, and Controls group of the Air Force Research Laboratory/Space Vehicles Directorate, where he led their research
in spacecraft attitude dynamics and control. Before he left the Air Force Research Laboratory/Space Vehicles Directorate in 2015, he was the technical lead for
the guidance, navigation, and controls group and performed research in spacecraft and orbit attitude dynamics and control, spacecraft actuator dynamics, control
moment gyroscope steering algorithms, and system identification. Currently, he manages the Dynamics and Controls program and is the lead for the Autonomy Working
Group at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) that funds basic (theoretical) research in the areas of general dynamical systems and control theory.
Since 2015, Dr. Leve has successfully funded innovative research corresponding to basic research in nontraditional systems theory and in relevant areas for autonomy
(e.g., formal methods, hybrid dynamical systems, reachability analysis). He is currently one of several program officers in the Autonomy Working Group here at AFOSR.
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