LARRY NICKERSON

• Leads MQ‑9 combat operations across multiple assignments, managing up to 198 personnel, 164 aircrew, and a $256M fleet executing persistent reconnaissance and strike support across three Combatant Commands, while directing operations, training, scheduling, and daily flying activities across distributed MQ‑9 enterprises to maintain compliance, safety, and synchronized mission execution.

• Advises the Director on seven Group‑level functions, overseeing readiness for 124 personnel across five units and three GSUs, and integrating intelligence, aircrew, cyber, weather, and administrative functions to drive organizational readiness and enable rapid, data‑driven decision‑making across seven globally separated MQ‑9 units.

• Led 58‑member intelligence team for 2/47 MQ‑9 operations across multiple COCOMs, producing threat-focused intelligence that informed operational decisions for 1,000+ personnel and enhanced situational awareness across the enterprise.

• Directed MQ‑9 standardization, evaluation, and compliance programs for 32 programs and 126 evaluators, ensuring regulatory alignment and maintaining enterprise readiness.

• Authored and modernized procedures, training standards, and evaluation criteria, enhancing instructional quality and mission execution, including updates supporting Agile Combat Employment.

• Led inspection and quality assurance activities supporting 21,000+ training events, strengthening organizational performance and aircrew proficiency.

• Senior enlisted leader for multiple MQ‑9 flights, responsible for personnel management, training oversight, and operational readiness for 24–43 personnel, ensuring continuity of operations across distributed sites.

• Instructed and evaluated 425+ hours and 108 events, producing 220 mission‑ready aviators and multiple instructor/evaluator upgrades while improving standardization and mission execution quality.

• Managed training pipelines for 150+ aircrew, enabling thousands of sorties, instructor/evaluator upgrades, and accelerated qualification timelines that strengthened enterprise‑wide mission capacity.

• Executed ISR and precision‑strike missions using MTS‑B, FMV, and SAR sensors, integrating real‑time intelligence into multi‑domain operations supporting CAS, CSAR, and joint/coalition missions.

• Supported 21,000+ flight hours and 965 sorties across multiple theaters, delivering threat‑driven ISR support that enhanced operational decision‑making.

• Conducted mission planning and sensor employment incorporating threat systems, radar considerations, airspace constraints, and C2 coordination, improving survivability and mission effectiveness.

• Directed cross‑functional teams to build scenario‑based mission rehearsals integrating threat systems, sensors, and C2 structures, strengthening readiness for real‑world operations.

• Developed TTPs, training syllabi, and scenario‑based mission profiles, improving aircrew proficiency, instructional quality, and operational effectiveness across FTU and operational units.

• Mentored and developed NCOs and junior aircrew, improving leadership development, instructional quality, and overall flight performance.

• Exploited Space Surveillance Network radar/optical data to assess satellite capabilities, detect system changes, and identify stability anomalies that triggered national‑level operational policy updates.

• Analyzed 2,200+ space radar signatures, enabling long-term trend analysis and improving client response timelines for space domain awareness.

• Performed advanced SEI analysis to identify, validate, and correlate high-priority emitters across the PACOM AOR, improving maritime tracking and COCOM situational awareness.

• Analyzed RC-135–collected ELINT to extract radar parameters and characterize foreign emitter capabilities, producing technical intelligence for national‑level scientific, acquisition, and policy customers.

• Operated multi‑service ELINT analysis and reporting systems supporting theater ISR and national intelligence requirements, producing collection emphasis reports and passing target locations to Blue Forces.

• Authored SEI job standards, trained analysts on mission tools, and helped establish new SEI capabilities that doubled ELINT capacity.

• Produced 160+ Intelligence Information Reports (IIRs) during deployment to Iraq, supported 520+ interrogations, and served as Southern Baghdad SME for MNF-I leadership.