Instructor Bios

Dr. Howard E. Evans
Dr. Howard E. Evans II is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Physics in the Department of Engineering Physics at the Air Force Institute of Technology, and a Principal Member of the Research Staff at Riverside Research Institute. He is familiar with the necessity for near real time reliable operational intelligence from a career in the Air Force as a combat aircrew member in the Southeast Asian and European theaters of operations. He has served as the Acting Director for MASINT Data Exploitation at the National Air Intelligence Center and as a Senior Scientist on the COBRA BRASS program with the Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. after retirement from 23 years of active duty. He is a frequent contributor to the Military Sensing Symposia, notably in the areas of sensor calibration and transient event phenomenology, with major contributions to the theories of monocular passive ranging and asynchronous undersampling signature reconstruction. His teaching experience in near-Earth environmental physics, navigation, and remote sensing spans more than twenty years on the faculties of the US Air Force Academy, the Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright State University, and Cedarville University. Informally, he developed and taught the course "MASINT 101" - the precursor to the present Program for analysts and collection managers - throughout the intelligence community. BS, Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1968; MS, Engineering Physics (Laser Optics), Air Force Institute of Technology, 1976; PhD, Astro-Geophysics, Americus U., 1985.
John L. Morris
As the former Director of the Central MASINT Organization, Deputy for MASINT to the Director of Central Intelligence, and currently Senior Advisor to the Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Mr. Morris brings a unique perspective to the AGI discipline. With nearly 40 years of experience in the MASINT arena, Mr. Morris has served in a broad variety of positions. From piloting a unique capability to exploit directed energy weapons signals to leading Air Force MASINT fusion efforts during DESERT STORM, he has practical experience using MASINT to help answer many of our nation's critical intelligence questions. Mr. Morris holds a BSEE and an MSEE and was Chairman of the IEEE's Presidents Forum in 1993.
Dr. John R. O'Hair
Dr. O'Hair has spent the last 10 years developing MASINT systems for the Air Force and the Department of Defense. His experience ranges from developing, launching and tasking space-based hyperspectral sensors, fielding prototype processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination systems, developing upgrades for fielded Synthetic Aperture Radar systems, and developing and flight testing prototype Radio Frequency MASINT sensors on classified platforms. He directed Research and Development of the COBRA BRASS system, and created the program for spectropolarimetric research within the Air Force Research Laboratory. Dr. O'Hair holds a BSEE (U.S. Air Force Academy), an MSEE (Texas Tech U.), and a PhD in EE - Signal Processing (AFIT), as well as an MBA (U. of West Florida).
Dr. James J. Lange
Dr. Lange is an Adjunct Associate professor of Physics in the Department of Engineering Physics at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT). He currently has been teaching in AFIT's Advanced Geospatial Intelligence Certificate Program. He has over 35 years of professional experience involving remote sensing techniques, sensors, and data analysis and exploitation. These sensing applications include surveillance, reconnaissance, and targeting from various airborne and satellite platforms using sensors in the ultraviolet, visible, and infrared, utilizing passive and active techniques. His most recent efforts have emphasized multispectral and hyperspectral sensing techniques in the visible through thermal infrared and also broadband thermal and polarimetric imaging techniques. Activities have included mission requirement evaluation, investigations for initial sensor feasibility assessment, sensor design, algorithm evaluation, data analysis, sensor end-to-end performance prediction as well as the preparation and presentation of advocacy and training materials. He has taught undergraduate and graduate level courses for over 11 years, advised 32 MS theses in the above areas, developed 7 new courses, and helped develop two new academic programs. For the new courses, he has developed and distributed complete lecture notes in absence of any suitable textbook. BS, Engineering Physics, University of Illinois, MS and PhD, Physics, University of Wisconsin.
 
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