MOSA Cyber-Physical Workshop: Policy to Practice

Dr. Raygan has 40 years of experience with full life cycle systems and software engineering processes within academic, industry, government, intelligence community, and the Department of Defense environments. He served with 20th Special Forces Group Airborne as an intelligence analyst for 16 years and is a veteran of Desert Shield / Desert Storm. Prior to joining the Defense Systems Management College (DSMC) in 2019, he was the lead Enterprise Architect on National Security Presidential Memorandum 7: "Integration, Sharing, and Use of National Security Threat Actor Information to Protect Americans" in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Intelligence Community Chief Information Office. He transitioned to DAU Capital Northeast Region at Ft. Belvoir, VA in 2021 to develop Mission and Systems Thinking, Digital Literacy, Mission Engineering, Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) and other learning content. He attended the University of Alabama at Birmingham receiving degrees of BA Art Studio/Art History, BSEE, MSEE, and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering.

Mr. Henry has 43 years of experience in designing, implementing, testing and managing large programs. He served 28 years the Air Force retiring at the rank of Colonel in 2000. He is a graduate of the USAF Test Pilot School and flew the first flight of the B-1B in 1984.  He has excelled in key leadership/management, engineering and test assignments on the A-10, B-1B, Joint STARS, and Global Air Traffic Operations and Mobility Command and Control. 

At Northrop Grumman, he became a director of Engineering for Northrop Grumman and Sector Systems Engineering Center of Excellence Lead. He is the past Chairman of the NDIA Systems Engineering Division and winner of the National Defense Industrial Association's Lt Gen Thomas R. Ferguson, Jr. Systems Engineering Excellence Award.

Mr. Henry is the recipient of the Air Force Material Command Chief Engineer of the Year, Air Force Association, Executive Division, Program Manager of the Year, and Armed Force Communications and Electronics Association's International Award for Excellence in Information Technology awards.

Mr. Bond entered the Air Force in 2006 through the Iowa State University ROTC Program.  He served eight and a half years on Active Duty before becoming a Government Civilian employee in 2014.

As a Civilian Mr. Bond worked in the C-17 Program Office as the Lead Software Engineer and Lead Engineer for the Heads-Up Display Replacement.  In 2018 Mr. Bond began working for the Air Force LiveCycle Management Center Open Architecture Management Office as Lead Engineer for the Open Mission Systems and Universal Command and Control Interface Standards. 

Currently Mr. Robert Bond is the Modular Open Systems Approaches SME for the Systems Engineering Division at the Air Force Material Command Headquarters.  He supports MOSA efforts and standards development across multiple Air Force offices.

Mr. Nicholes currently serves as the MOSA/OA Team lead within the Avionics and Mission Systems PMO and the Systems Engineering Transformation Team (SETT) Open Architecture Theme Lead for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, Joint Program Office (JPO) where he is tasked with developing strategies for implementing and integrating a Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) throughout the entire JSF Enterprise. He began his career as a software engineer at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD), in the Electronic Warfare (EW) Concepts Development and Analysis Branch in China Lake, CA. He performed various Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) tasks for multiple airborne platforms and avionics systems. After serving eleven and a half years there, he transitioned to the Navy Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) in Patuxent River, MD on a long-term development assignment within the program offices. He attended the USN Test Pilot School and has served as mission systems test team lead, systems engineering lead, and other roles to support the NAVAIR mission. Henry has worked for NAVAIR for over 30 years where he has received numerous awards and recognitions for his service.