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Dr. Steven C. Suddarth
Director of the Confi gurable Space Microsystems Innovations and Applications Center (COSMIAC)

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Dr. Suddarth is responsible for leading the COSMIAC collaboration between Government, Industry, and Academia to ensure design success and deployment of programmable logic in space, military and civil applications as well as to develop the long-term plans for the Center.

A retired Air Force Colonel with 24 years of service, Dr. Suddarth served his last military assignment as the liaison from U.S. Strategic Command to the National Laboratories. Based in Los Alamos, NM, Col. Suddarth initiated and oversaw a development team of 60 people spanning four sites to develop key technologies for the war fighter. Dr. Suddarth has overseen several substantial computer engineering/embedded systems projects. Th ese include the development of a fi rst-ever 3-dimensional mixed analog/digital image processor which advanced the State-of-the-Art by 3 orders of magnitude. Dr. Suddarth also built and tested several airborne optical sensing systems, unmanned aerial robotics systems, and software systems for large military space programs.

Dr. Suddarth has served in key leadership capacities in the Air Force Research Laboratory, Air Force Materiel Command, and the Air War College. In these positions, he organized, led, and contributed to several eff orts within the Air Force to rejuvenate interest and investment in technology and assembled plans to expand graduate education by a factor of 5, which substantially increased enrollment at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT). Further efforts included developing course materials, widely used today, for the indoctrination and instruction of incoming Air Force scientists and engineers, while contributing to current war efforts and demonstrating a key data-sharing capability among fighter aircraft.

Dr. Suddarth is a 1982 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy (B.S. in Electrical Engineering), and he holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington. Dr. Suddarth is also a graduate of the Brazilian Air Command and Staff College, U.S. Joint Forces Staff College, and the U.S. Air War College. He has authored over 20 papers.