Scott D. Fouse Domain Lead for Research and Development and SciTech Executive Producer AIAA

Mr. Fouse retired from Lockheed Martin Space Systems in April 2018 and has now formed a new entity, Fouse Consulting Services, which is focused on helping companies identify technology enabled futures.  He recently accepted a consulting position with AIAA as the Aerospace R&D Domain Lead.  Over his career he has led three R&D organizations which have had a focus on Intelligent Systems in addition to other advanced technologies.  He has extensive experience working with DARPA in the general area of Intelligent Systems and Artificial Intelligence.  He has been directly involved in two significant transitions of advanced to technology to warfighter impact, one during Desert Shield, and one during Operation Iraqi Freedom.  His primary interests are in Human Machine Teaming, new systems engineering techniques, and accelerating technology transition.

Since retiring from LM, Mr. Fouse has been supporting a variety of organizations.  He is currently chairman of the board of Planetary Sciences Institute, a non profit organization based in Tucson, AZ.  He is supporting strategy development for ASU Global Security Initiative and their Center for Human, AI, and Robotic Teaming.  He has also served as a coach for training engineering professors on Value Creation methodologies, a process developed by Curt Carlson, former president of SRI.  Mr. Fouse is currently working with Aptima in Woburn MA, where he has stood up a Business Advisory Board, and is providing guidance to Aptima senior leadership on growth and break out strategies.  Mr. Fouse is also a member of the GTRI External Advisory Committee, a position he has held since 2015.

The last position he held at Lockheed Martin was VP of Research for Lockheed Martin Space, overseeing the Advanced Technology Center (ATC), a group of about 500 Scientists and Engineers supporting the Lockheed Martin Space Company.  In that position he was responsible for all aspects of the organization.

Prior to his position at the ATC, Mr. Fouse was the Director of the Advanced Technology Laboratories (ATL), a position he had held since Jan 1, 2010.  In that position he was responsible for all aspects of the organization, which was 240 people and a premier R&D organization primarily focused on DARPA.  Prior to that, Mr. Fouse was CTO of ATL.  In that position he managed the Internal Research activities and was a liaison to the Lockheed Martin business units as well as the corporate staff.  

Since 1998 Mr. Fouse has participated in a number of senior advisory groups. He was a member of the AF Scientific Advisory Board from October 2003 until October 2008.  In that position he supported a number of special studies, chaired a study on Experimentation to support Disruptive Innovation, Co-chaired a review of the AFRL Information Directorate in 2005, and also participated in two other Directorate Reviews, the Information Directorate in 2003 and the Munitions Directorate in 2005.  In 2012 Mr. Fouse participated in a Defense Science Board study on Technology to Enable Superiority in 2030.  In 2006 Mr. Fouse participated in a Defense Science Board study on Information Management to Support Net Centric Operations.  Mr. Fouse was a member of the DARPA ISAT group from 2001 to 2004, where he participated in a number of studies.  In 2002 he chaired a study group for the DARPA IXO office to define directions for C2 Research.  He chaired the Joshua advisory group which provided advice to the AF Information Directorate Information Systems Division.   Mr. Fouse was the Lockheed Martin representative on the Rocket Lab Board of Directors from 2015 until 2018.   Mr. Fouse is currently a member of the International Academy of Astronautics.  Mr. Fouse is also an AIAA Associate Fellow.

Before coming to Lockheed Martin, Mr. Fouse was President, CEO and Chairman of the Board of ISX Corporation, a 50 person company that specialized in creating and transitioning advanced IT systems to operational use.  ISX was the recipient of three Contractor of the Year awards from DARPA. Mr. Fouse was a leader in the DARPA Command Post of the Future project, which created a significant advance in C2 Systems and became the primary C2 system for Iraq at the Corp, Division, Brigade and Battalion echelons.  Below are details of the other projects Mr. Fouse played a significant role in, while at ISX.

• Played a lead role in transitioning I3 (Intelligent Integration of Information) to various application areas.  One area was BADD (Battlefield Awareness and Data Dissemination.  As part of the BADD transition activities, he lead a team of researchers to develop a concept for how I*3 technologies could be used to enhance the functionality of the information dissemination server.  

• He was part of a small architecture study group that defined requirements for the Dynamic Data Base, an advanced geospatial database that can provide the common store for many Battlefield Awareness Applications.  

• Part of an ARPA study on the application of advanced information technologies to the Theater Medical Information Project.  As part of that study, captured the vision of Admiral Koenig (Navy Surgeon General) for the Battlefield Medical Information Architecture.

• Provided technical leadership and project management for the ARPA/Rome Laboratory Knowledge Based Planning and Scheduling Initiative for ISX from 1990 to 1994.  The program supported the technology transition process and involved playing the intermediary between the operational users (USTRANSCOM, USCENTCOM, and USPACOM) and requirements and the technology developers.  ISX's role also included supporting the development of the technology roadmap, which lays out a timeline of when various technologies will be demonstrated in Integrated Feasibility Demonstrations for the transportation planning domain, as well as the Visionary Demonstration of Graphical Planning Cell.  This particular project pioneered the concept of Distributed Collaborative Planning, which is the basis for the Global Command and Control System (GCCS).

• Defined the Functional Requirements for DART, a system for creating and analyzing a transportation plan.  The system was developed in 10 weeks at USTRANSCOM during Desert Shield, and was deployed to Europe to plan the second wave of the deployment 8 weeks after the start of the project.  

• Part of 2 person requirements team for the TARGET system. TARGET is a graphical planning system, initially intended to support Non-Combatant Evacuation operations for US Pacific Command.  

• Led an effort to apply decision theory to the problem of business case development.  Effort was centered around development of a system, BCASE, which was a highly interactive environment for developing and presenting a Business Case.  BCASE was based on the concept of capturing key decisions and objective functions in the form of an executable decision model at the front end of the process, and then using that model to keep the business case development project focused.

• Led the ISX (then Teknowledge Federal Systems) effort in the development of the Tactics Planning Module for the DARPA/Lockheed Pilots Associate program.  This effort also included a significant contribution to the overall systems engineering and engineering methodology.

Previous Work Experience

July, 1983 to October, 1984

Technical Director, Aptech Imaging, Palo Alto, CA.  Responsibilities included development of Real-time Radiographic Inspection system and support of on-going Image Enhancement services.  Developed IBM-PC based image processing system for use in on-site Nuclear Power Station Inspections.  

May, 1976 to July, 1983

Senior Project Engineer, Hughes Research Laboratories.  Involved in a wide range of advanced architectures to support image and signal processing.  This included some very early multi-processor systems, number theoretic signal processors, and a discrete, analog image processing architecture based on charge coupled devices, used for analog signal processing.

Education

            Engineer Degree, Electrical Engineering, USC, 1983

            Masters Degree, Electrical Engineering, USC, 1978

            BS Physics, University of Central Florida, 1976