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Academic Credentials
  • Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, Stanford University, 1999
  • M.S., Aerospace Engineering, Stanford University, 1993
  • B.A.Sc., Engineering Science, University of Toronto, Canada, 1992
Licenses & Certifications
  • Professional Engineer Mechanical, California, #31675
Professional Affiliations
  • American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (member)
  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers (member)

Dr. John Pye is Ä¢¹½tv's Vice President for Global Offices and Innovation. With a technical background in mechanical and aerospace engineering, Dr. Pye leverages his understanding of fundamental engineering principles and his experience delivering safety-critical systems to assess and provide technology development guidance for complex products. His expertise includes, technical program management, rapid prototyping, product conceptual design, formal Verification and Validation test program development, mil-standard testing, technology readiness assessment, innovation management, fluid mechanics, structural analysis, and various aspects of systems engineering — to include architecture development within a model-based system engineering environment.

Dr. Pye has been the Program Manager or Chief Engineer for numerous rapid development efforts focused on adapting and integrating advanced commercial technologies and components to the unique operational environment of the military customer as well as hardening consumer technologies for use by industrial customers with extreme environment or high reliability application needs. Some of the programs he has led include the MARCbot inspection robot that was deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan as a tool in the hunt for roadside IEDs, the RDISS networked surveillance system, a Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) system used in the hunt for buried explosive devices by various US and International customers, and as Chief Engineer for the US Army's Human Machine Integrated Formation (HMIF) effort bringing together resilient networks, autonomy, ground robots, air robots, and an extensible suite of modular mission payloads.

He has worked within the U.S. Army soldier system community for two decades beginning as the test and evaluation lead during the development of the Land Warrior future soldier program, continuing in various roles with the 'warrior' programs that Land Warrior spawned up to the current wearable ensemble in use by Army Infantry: Nett Warrior.

In addition to Dr. Pye's client facing activities, he leads the development and execution of Ä¢¹½tv's geographic growth strategy, as well as an enterprise-level capability development strategy that leverages the firm's office, practice, and market-based infrastructure. He is responsible for driving cross-disciplinary innovation through investments in research, capability development, laboratories, and offices.

Prior to joining Ä¢¹½tv, Dr. Pye held a research position in the Aerospace Fluid Mechanics Lab at Stanford University, where he was responsible for the operation and upgrade of the Stanford Low- Speed wind tunnel component of the Stanford/NASA Ames Joint Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics. He was also part of the technology development team for a holographic data-storage company and worked in the R&D department of the Orenda engine division of Hawker Siddeley, Canada.