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Anthony P. Sharon – Biography
Anthony P. Sharon is Assistant Director for Operations at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He joined the Laboratory in 1999 as Assistant Leader of the Advanced Satcom Engineering and Operations Group. His initial work was on the development of an Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) test terminal for investigating advanced waveform performance in protected satellite communications systems. In 2000, Mr. Sharon began development of an Advanced EHF test network to support the concurrent design of satellite payloads and terminals. This network is centered at the Laboratory with nodes located at development and operational test sites. He also focused on the development of an airborne test bed for horizontally integrating communications and decisions systems and served on the Laboratory's National Cruise Missile Defense Study.
In June 2001, Mr. Sharon was awarded the Armed Forces Communications Association's Benjamin Oliver Gold Medal for Engineering. As the Associate Leader of the Advanced Satcom Engineering and Operations Group, he continued the development of the Advanced EHF test network expanding its nodes to Air Force and Navy advanced systems. He participated in the Laboratory's Global Reconnaissance Strike Study and was instrumental in creating an airborne network test laboratory for evaluating tactical mobile networks. He has led staffing and infrastructure improvements to support the Group's research and prototyping in connection with the Department of Defense's Transformational Communications System. He also served on multiorganizational teams developing an optical communications test bed and evaluating software programmable radios.
Mr. Sharon served in the U.S. Air Force for 25 years, attaining the rank of colonel and having served in numerous positions of responsibility, including Director of Plans and Programs and Executive Officer for the Electronic Systems Center and System Program Director for Communications and Airspace Management.
Mr. Sharon holds a BS degree in mechanical engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and an MS degree in systems engineering from The Ohio State University, where he did thesis work on the use of analytic and external control variates for queuing network simulations.
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