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Will Chambers

Will Chambers

Maple Valley,WA

Summary

Artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomy leader with twenty years of experience making an impact to customer missions and business operations. Specialize in building technologies, capabilities and strategies for a broad range of aerospace and defense missions. Direct experience managing AI projects from development to deployment. Builder and leader of high-performing cross-functional teams including tactical research teams and strategic cross-sector leadership teams. Initiative taker who has founded two laboratories, an international open-source project called Space Robot Operating System (Space ROS) and has led dozens of research projects. Value creator who has contributed to over twenty trade secrets, managed multi-million dollar portfolios, and contributed to the capture of >$85B of total contract value. Ready to bring a wealth of experience to Microsoft.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience

Work History

Multi-domain Operations (MDO) Research Lead

Peraton Inc
01.2023 - Current
  • Company Overview: Internal research and development program for the Indo-Pacific and other Commands
  • Website: https://www.peraton.com/
  • I lead an internal research and development program for the Indo-Pacific and other Commands that includes a team of forty (40) multi-disciplinary engineers
  • Spearheaded the development of a revenue creating generative AI product line and its deployment to unclassified and classified on-premises and cloud (AWS, Azure) environments
  • Product is being adopted by several COCOMs for operational planning and intelligence support
  • The development of a command-and-control language for the interoperation and collaboration of heterogeneous, autonomy software frameworks (e.g
  • UMAA, OMS, Maverick)
  • Led a cross-sector multi-domain demonstration that showcases Peraton’s technologies and capabilities for multiple mission functions including planning, warfighting and intelligence
  • More generally, I have led the development of an AI-enable technology portfolio for operational planning, course-of-action development, command and control of heterogenous battle networks, autonomous logistics for contested environments, distributed computer environment, and assured communications
  • Participation and demonstration at professional tradeshows such as Technet, DODIIS, GEOINT and Alamo ACE
  • Internal research and development program for the Indo-Pacific and other Commands
  • Website: https://www.peraton.com/

Senior Director of Research, Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy

Peraton Inc
07.2022 - Current
  • Company Overview: Peraton’s artificial intelligence and autonomy strategy
  • Website: https://www.peraton.com/
  • Responsible for the formulation and implementation of Peraton’s artificial intelligence and autonomy strategy
  • Coordination of cross-functional AI Readiness team to define and execute investment, responsible AI, workforce development, partnership, corporate communication and government relation approaches
  • Effort has resulted in improved technology maturation, training and education program, key strategic partnerships with GPU and cloud service providers, and marketing artifacts including videos on Chief Data and AI Office (CDAO) Tradewinds marketplace
  • Formulation of corporate artificial intelligence technology roadmap and plan for compute and communications infrastructure, data acquisition and management, and AI/ML and autonomy applications/platforms for Peraton’s customers’ missions-of-consequence
  • Coordination and communication of artificial intelligence and autonomy strategy with company ownership, corporate leadership, and sector and business unit leadership
  • Peraton’s artificial intelligence and autonomy strategy
  • Website: https://www.peraton.com/

Senior Director | Principal Technologist, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Blue Origin
10.2019 - 07.2022
  • Company Overview: Development of robotic, autonomous, and intelligent systems for Blue Origin programs and its customers
  • Website: https://www.blueorigin.com/
  • Responsible for the development of technical roadmap, strategy, and development of robotic, autonomous, and intelligent systems for Blue Origin programs and its customers
  • Supported solutions for the Orbital Reef space station, Blue Moon lunar landers, and Blue Ring space mobility platform
  • Spearheaded the Space Robot Operating System (Space ROS) project, a collaboration with three NASA centers and Open-Source Robotics Foundation to develop a reusable and modular flight-certifiable software framework for robotic space systems
  • Space ROS is now an open-source project
  • Established CRADA with AFRL/USSF for joint research and development of Space ROS for DoD missions
  • Principal Investigator of DIU (Defense Innovation Unit) M4SS (Modularity for Space Systems) subcontract to mature software controllers and simulation for dual robotic arms for on-orbit servicing operations
  • Led system design of Lunar Terrain Vehicle for crewed and uncrewed operation in permanently shadowed craters at Lunar South Pole
  • Principal Investigator to develop software application kits and simulations for on-orbit manipulation, NASA LaRC’s LSMS (Lunar Surface Manipulation System), and lunar surface mobility vehicles
  • Development of robotic, autonomous, and intelligent systems for Blue Origin programs and its customers
  • Website: https://www.blueorigin.com/

Corporate AI Architect

Northrop Grumman Corporation
08.2018 - 10.2019
  • Company Overview: Corporate technical strategy for artificial intelligence and adjacent technologies
  • Website: https://www.northropgrumman.com/
  • Cross-functional role responsible for formulating the corporate technical strategy for artificial intelligence and adjacent technologies reporting to the CTO
  • Contributed to key captures including Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD), MQ-4C Triton, and other programs with total contract value > $85B
  • Built cross-functional Campaign team that included technical, strategy, and programmatic roles
  • Performed capabilities and gap analysis of corporate and customer portfolios
  • Performed DoD budget and voice-of-customer analysis to quantify market opportunities
  • Developed a long-term strategic roadmap and a plan predicated on the above data-driven analyses
  • Formulated investment, partnership, acquisition, and customer engagement plans
  • Contributed to corporate marketing and communications strategy
  • Contributed to AI-focused workforce development program
  • Corporate technical strategy for artificial intelligence and adjacent technologies
  • Website: https://www.northropgrumman.com/

Director of the Autonomous Intelligence and Robots Laboratory

Northrop Grumman Corporation
01.2014 - 10.2018
  • Company Overview: Founded the AIR Laboratory by growing it from a team of one to a team of twenty multi-disciplinary engineers
  • Website: https://www.northropgrumman.com/
  • Founded the AIR Laboratory by growing it from a team of one to a team of twenty multi-disciplinary engineers
  • Matured technologies across data science, artificial intelligence, autonomy, and robotics fields, including natural language processing, perception, knowledge representation and reasoning, planning and decision making, collaborative multi-robot systems and counter-AI
  • Generated over twenty trade secrets
  • Awarded several CRAD programs including DARPA OFFSET (Offensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics), DARPA SC2 (Spectrum Collaboration Challenge) Strawberry Jammer Team and DARPA COMPASS (Collection and Monitoring via Planning for Active Situational Scenarios) and DARPA Gamebreaker
  • Lead algorithm developer on restricted program to classify synthetic aperture radar (SAR) detections
  • Founded the AIR Laboratory by growing it from a team of one to a team of twenty multi-disciplinary engineers
  • Website: https://www.northropgrumman.com/

Research and Development Engineer

Northrop Grumman Corporation
01.2004 - 01.2014

Research and Development Engineer

Lockheed Martin Corporation
01.2003 - 01.2004

Education

Ph.D. - Physics

University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
01.2004
Researched focused on statistical cosmology and large-scale structure formation in universe.

B.S. - Physics, Astronomy

Benedictine College, Atchison, KS
01.1998

Skills

  • Technology
  • Agents
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Autonomy
  • Collaboration, multi-Agency
  • Generative AI
  • Human-Machine Teaming
  • Large-language Models
  • Machine Learning
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Perception
  • Robotic and Unmanned Systems
  • Robotic Software Frameworks
  • Software Development
  • Systems Engineering
  • Business and Strategy
  • Business Development
  • Capture Support
  • Cross-functional
  • Customer Relations
  • Partnership Development
  • Portfolio Management
  • Product Ownership
  • Proposal Writing
  • Project Management
  • Roadmap Development
  • Strategy Development

Phone

C, 260.515.0830

Otherrelevantexperience

Technical Steering Committee Member, Space Robot Operating System, 01/01/23, Current, Continue to provide leadership as a member of the Space ROS Technical Steering Committee.

Timeline

Multi-domain Operations (MDO) Research Lead - Peraton Inc
01.2023 - Current
Senior Director of Research, Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy - Peraton Inc
07.2022 - Current
Senior Director | Principal Technologist, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics - Blue Origin
10.2019 - 07.2022
Corporate AI Architect - Northrop Grumman Corporation
08.2018 - 10.2019
Director of the Autonomous Intelligence and Robots Laboratory - Northrop Grumman Corporation
01.2014 - 10.2018
Research and Development Engineer - Northrop Grumman Corporation
01.2004 - 01.2014
Research and Development Engineer - Lockheed Martin Corporation
01.2003 - 01.2004
University of Kansas - Ph.D., Physics
Benedictine College - B.S., Physics, Astronomy

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