Mr. Thomas G. Allen: Chief Engineer and Facility Security Officer

Mr. Thomas G. Allen is NSI Chief Engineer and Facility Security Officer. Mr. Allen has over 20 years experience in advanced algorithms, system architectures, simulation, integration, evaluation, and software development for multiple applications, with particular expertise in the areas of information fusion and exploitation for national defense. From 1984 to 2004, Mr. Allen was on the staff at ALPHATECH—now BAE Advanced Information Technologies (AIT)—where he held numerous senior technical and management positions, including Associate Division Manager, Director of Tracking Technology, and Chief Engineer of the Fusion Technology & Systems Division. While at ALPHATECH, Mr. Allen provided both technical and managerial leadership to a broad range of tracking, data fusion, image processing, resource management, intelligence, data mining, and system development projects. From 1993 to 1998, Mr. Allen led the development of an advanced multiple hypothesis tracking system for the Navy Automatic Radar Periscope Detection and Discrimination program, which designed, implemented, integrated, and field tested a real-time system for tracking of maritime objects in littoral regions from airborne and ship borne radars. From 1999 to 2002, Mr. Allen was the Program Manager and Principal Investigator on the DARPA Information Exploitation Office (IXO) Precision Fire Control Tracking (PFCT) part of the Affordable Moving Surface Target Engagement (AMSTE) program. From 2002 to 2004, Mr. Allen supported intelligence programs that investigated methods of detecting and identifying patterns of actionable information within large collections of background data. From 2004 to 2007, Mr. Allen was Vice President of Engineering of Parietal Systems, Inc. where he led the development of advanced approaches to tracking, fusion, and exploitation systems. Mr. Allen received his S.B. (1982) and S.M. (1984) Degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, concentrating in guidance, estimation, and control theory.