Air & Missile Defense technology
Gerald C. Augeri - Biography
Gerald Augeri is currently the Assistant Head of the Air and Missile Defense Technology Division at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He supports various areas within the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) including sensors, advanced technology, system engineering and architecture and command, control, battle management and communications (C2BMC).
In addition to responsibilities in the missile defense area, he is also the Laboratory's lead technical liaison to the U.S. Strategic Command for coordinating the Laboratory's increasing involvement with the operational communities in missile defense, space situational awareness, and ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance).
Prior to his current appointment, he was assigned directly to MDA, where he served as the 1st Deputy Director for the newly created Sensors Directorate. His responsibilities included developing the Sensors Directorate to be the focal point for Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) sensors for MDA; coordinating and validating the layered sensors concept of the BMDS; specifying and developing components of the BMDS sensor architecture; pathfinder activities for MDA acquisition through innovative procurement of sensors; and integrating sensor-related efforts across MDA. He was awarded the inaugural MDA Individual Award for Technology in 2003.
Prior to his assignment at MDA, he was the Leader of the Sensor Measurements and Analysis Group in the Ballistic Missile Technology Division at Lincoln Laboratory, providing technical leadership over Laboratory programs with the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), U.S. Air Force National Air & Space Intelligence Command (NASIC), U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (USASMDC), Air Force Technical Applications Center (AFTAC), U.S. Navy Program Executive Office–Theater Surface Combatants (PEO-TSC), and directly with the United Kingdom.
He has over 25 years of experience in the areas of algorithm development, metric and signature radar data analysis, operations support, and threat characterization, discrimination and assessment. He has been involved with all aspects of missile defense including seeker and fire control support.
He holds undergraduate degrees in mathematics and biology (1979) and graduate degrees in quantitative analysis (1986) and physics (1993), all from Boston College.
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