Mark E. Bury

Mark E. Bury is an assistant head of the Engineering Division at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Bury joined the Laboratory in 2009 as a technical staff member in the Structural and Thermal-Fluids Engineering Group, where he focused on providing aerodynamic and thermal engineering expertise for rapid prototyping projects and early concept developments. He worked on a broad range of programs, performing fluidic modeling and testing for biosensors, developing thermal solutions for forward operating base infrared detector systems, providing aerodynamic designs for a number of airborne pods, and developing the thermal control system for airborne ladar systems. He also contributed to several research efforts including the development of aero-optic modeling techniques that formed the basis for current integrated modeling frameworks.

In 2014, Bury was promoted to assistant leader of the Structural and Thermal-Fluids Engineering Group. He served as the deputy program manager for the SensorSat program, providing a low-Earth-orbit small satellite addressing space domain awareness. In 2018, Bury became the associate leader of the Advanced Electro-Optical Systems Group in the Space Systems and Technology Division. In this position, he served as the program manager for the Quasi-Zenith Satellite System Hosted Payload (QZSS-HP)/Situational Awareness Camera Hosted Environment (SACHI) program, providing space domain awareness payloads for the U.S. Space Force hosted on Japanese satellites in geosynchronous orbit. In 2020, he returned to the Engineering Division as the leader of the Structural and Thermal-Fluids Engineering Group. Bury has contributed broadly to the Laboratory’s prototyping community through informal and formal complex prototyping program reviews; failure review boards; and concept development, planning, and team architecting for early-stage prototyping program activities.

Bury holds a BS degree in aerospace and aeronautical engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder and an MS degree in aerospace and aeronautical engineering from MIT. Prior to joining the Laboratory, he worked at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company supporting the F-35 program concept development, and he also worked in technical consulting for Arthur D. Little, TIAX, and Environ.