Gregg A. Shoults

Dr. Gregg A. Shoults is a senior staff member in the Advanced Sensor Systems and Test Beds Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He is currently supporting the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command at the Reagan Test Range Operations Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Shoults joined Lincoln Laboratory in 1996 as a technical staff member conducting systems analysis on missile defense architectures for theater and strategic ballistic missile systems. From 2000 to 2004, he completed a field assignment as a radar systems engineer and test director at the Reagan Test Range on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Upon his return to the Laboratory's main campus, he led the Laboratory’s Test and Evaluation Program supporting the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) in conducting missile flight tests to collect data on reentry vehicle countermeasures. In 2007, he began an Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) assignment with the MDA, serving as the chief scientist of the Ground-Based Missile Defense Program.

He became assistant leader, associate leader, and leader of the Laboratory's Surveillance Systems Group in 2009, 2010, and 2015, respectively. Focused on surveillance systems and decision support architectures for the Federal Aviation Administration, his work spanned the development of the Airborne Collision Avoidance System X (ACAS X), Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast (ADS-B) technology, and runway safety and incursion monitoring capabilities, as well as the integration of uncrewed aircraft systems into the national airspace. From 2020 to 2026, as a senior staff member, he led the Sensors Knowledge Center, for which the Laboratory has held director role since MDA established the center in 2008.

Prior to joining the Laboratory, Shoults worked at the McDonnell Aircraft Company in St. Louis, Missouri, where he was a member of the navigation and air-to-ground weapon delivery group on the F/A-18 fighter aircraft program and supported internal R&D efforts in navigation, guidance, and control.

Shoults received a DSc degree in systems science and mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis, an MS degree in aeronautical and astronautical engineering at Purdue University, and a BS degree in aerospace engineering and aircraft maintenance engineering at Parks College of St. Louis University.