Instructor Bios

Dr. Rod Barnes
Dr. Barnes has practiced as an engineer and scientist in the areas of over-the-horizon radar (OTHR) and radio wave propagation for 20 years. His specialties in the OTHR field are propagation effects, coordinate registration (geo-location), and frequency and setup management for radar performance optimization. When working at the Australian Defence Science and Technology Organization, he led teams that developed the initial surface mode (slow target) frequency advice and a concept demonstrator coordinate registration system incorporating a real-time data driven regional ionospheric model for the Jindalee OTHR. He worked as the head of propagation and ionospheric effects on the Australian Jindalee project from 1998 to 2002 and led the Australian delegation of the US/AUS MOA meetings on OTHR from 2000-2002. Dr Barnes also represented Australia at the ITU, Geneva on spectrum issues pertaining to OTHR usage, 1999-2003. His current research interests are in the applications of modern digital hardware in expanding OTHR and support sensor capability. Dr Barnes also worked as the Defence Science Attaché in the Australian Embassy before joining Riverside Research Institute in 2006. Dr. Barnes holds a BSc (Hons) and PhD in physics (U. of Queensland) and a Grad. Certificate in Scientific Leadership (U. South Australia).
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.
Shawn Kalis
Mr. Shawn A. Kalis is a member of the Research Staff at Riverside Research Institute and has over 20 years of active duty military intelligence experience with the U.S. Air Force. Additionally he served as Crisis Management Instructor and Evaluator for the U.S. State Department, and six years as an Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS) contractor directly supporting DOD intelligence-related missions. Mr. Kalis possesses extensive knowledge and experience in all-source analysis, SIGINT, MASINT, IMINT, and OSINT at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels. He has served as a Russian/East European tactical and strategic analyst, Middle East/North African Area Specialist, Terrorism and Force Protection Analyst/Instructor, and a Crisis Management Specialist. Mr. Kalis also possesses broad expertise and knowledge in national and tactical intelligence planning, tasking, collection, processing, exploitation, analysis and dissemination, and has served in program management, planning, and budgeting positions from the unit to the service headquarters level. He is presently assigned as a Deputy Program Manager and A&AS contractor to the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC), Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. Mr. Kalis earned a BGS in Communications at the University of Nebraska in 1989, an MA in Middle East Studies at the University of Texas in 1994, and is presently a PhD student at Salve Regina University, Newport, RI, specializing in Humanities/Conflict Analysis.
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.
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. Deanne W. Otto
Coming most recently from a position as the Associate Academic Dean for Florida Metropolitan University near Patrick AFB, Florida, Dr. Otto is the Director of Education at the Advanced Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) for Human Capital Development in Dayton, Ohio. Her experience includes more than 12 years of college and university classroom experience at the graduate and undergraduate level in the areas of statistical analysis and space studies, most recently instructing in the area of remote sensing for the ATIC certificate and degree programs related to the intelligence community. Dr. Otto's experience includes working as a NASA Space Grant Fellow as well as an Aerospace Education Officer with the USAFR Civil Air Patrol in Minneapolis, MN. Current interests include teaching at the graduate level as an Assistant Professor with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Dayton, Ohio and for Embry-Riddle's Worldwide/online campus, and as a mentor and acting dissertation chair for Walden University's Ph.D. and Ed.D. programs, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Dr. Otto holds a BS in Biology from Trenton State College, MS in Space Studies from the University of North Dakota, and PhD in Teaching & Learning with emphases in Research Methodologies & Statistics, Education Foundations, and Educational Testing & Measurement from the University of North Dakota.