ENGINEERING
Eliahu H. Niewood - Biography
Dr. Eliahu H. Niewood is Head of the Engineering Division, a position he has held since July 2009. He is responsible for overseeing a range of activities associated with transforming Laboratory technology visions into prototype systems for field and flight testing as well as operational employment. These activities include mechanical and electro-mechanical engineering and fabrication and assembly of mechanical systems and electronics.
Dr. Niewood joined MIT Lincoln Laboratory in 1993. As a member of the technical staff, he was involved in understanding the performance of infrared systems, radar systems, and precision guided munitions. He later served as the program manager for the Directed Energy Countermeasure Assessment Team, a program to evaluate the utility of countermeasures to directed energy weapons.
Starting in 2004, Dr. Niewood led all of the field and flight testing for the Air Vehicle Survivability Evaluation (AVSE) program. He then became program manager of the AVSE program from July 2005 to June 2008. In this role, Dr. Niewood oversaw the program's extensive interactions with Air Force and DoD senior leadership and worked closely with the program's Air Force sponsors to enhance the management of the program. He was responsible for all of the systems analysis, testing, and prototype threat development work performed as part of the program.
Dr. Niewood is currently a member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board and served as chairman of a 2009 quick-look study on test range compatibility and vice-chairman of a study on the implications of spectrum management and of the 2008 review of AFRL/RYS. In 2002, he served as a member of the Defense Science Board Task Force on unexploded ordnance. He also served as a member of the Laboratory's New Technology Initiatives Board and on two studies of Naval Surface Fire Support for the US Navy.
Dr. Niewood holds an SB degree (1987), an SM degree (1989), and an ScD degree (1993), all in aeronautics and astronautics, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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