Jennifer Gordon Dykes is a missile defense engineer and analyst with over 18 years of experience working on sensor and strategic missile defense programs, specializing in intercept lethality analysis, debris characterization, trajectory simulation, and modeling & simulation. She has worked for several defense contractors providing technical support, analysis, and tool development using MATLAB for projects involving the Ballistic Missile Defense System. She holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville and is active in IEEE societies.

1. Jennifer Gordon Dykes
2104 McDowling Drive, Huntsville AL 35803
Cell: 256-468-2131
anitaskii@hotmail.com
MISSILE DEFENSE ENGINEER / ANALYST
Profile  More than 18 years’ experience working on sensor, and various strategic/theater missile defense programs.
 Acquired expertise in the areas of intercept lethality, debris characterization, intercept phenomenology,
threat trajectory simulation/analyses, and modeling/simulation (M&S) of environments within BMDS
frameworks.
 Learned and applied mathematical concepts related to radar signal/image processing, environments
modeling, RF environmental effects modeling, rigid body motion, various coordinate systems, coordinate
transformations, and GPS data analyses comparisons with Ground Test truth data.
 Extensive technical analyses and tool development using MatLab.
 I am an analyst by nature, and I enjoy collaborating and presenting on technical topics to convey data,
concepts, and ideas. My favorite jobs would allow me to tinker with software and data, collect information,
and present technical studies to drive strategy decisions.
Achievements  Established the technical capabilities of the Government formed SSF Green Team to assume responsibility
of test case generation and associated quality analyses following the dissolution of the Boeing SSF team.
 Successfully coordinated with TBE CTD and Boeing/Dynetics ET developers to integrate the BMDS
elements using the DIS interface protocols from the MDSE framework to create the SSF framework.
 Played a key role in the TBE Response to the OSF RFP in the area of scenario building and element
representations.
 Developed the algorithms used in the MDSE framework to dead reckon objects’ injection states based on
orientation criteria.
Employment deciBel Research, Huntsville, AL August 2014-February 2016
Senior Analyst / Engineer
Evaluated several legacy and recent environment models used in Ground Test
simulations, such as the MDSE/ET/SSF CEM models, and Blake models
("Radar Range Performance Analysis", Lamont V. Blake) for comparisons and
OSF truth model integration decisions. Thoroughly researched, collected data,
performed analyses, documented, and presented on topics of priority such as
refraction, scintillation, gravity, and troposphere effects over the BMDS RF span
of frequencies and functional bandwidths.
Effectively resolved discrepancies between raw GPS data collected from two
MDA Fight Tests and the corresponding processed BET data incorporated into
the scenarios for Ground Test simulations. I accomplished this through analyses,
documentation, and presentation of equations, data plots, and narrative.
Assisted with deciBel Tool enhancements to associate track IDs (LRIDS) with
SSF framework truth IDs in a MatLab environment. The enhancements allowed
for comprehensive studies in the differences with the timing of UEWR target
acquisitions (cued or detected), track timing and updates, split and dropped
tracks, GFC generated track IDs and position updates between the MDA Flight
and Ground Tests. As an analyst funded under the SENSOR and UEWR BIT
contracts, I outlined functional diagrams for UEWR Mission Application
Software enhancement testing procedures, and evaluated UEWR/CD sensor
requirements with GT-06 Test Objectives, scenarios, and Key Test Parameters.
Aegis Technologies Group Inc, Huntsville, AL April 2011-April 2014
Principal Engineer / Analyst
Provided support with SSF test case development and executing the legacy
MDSE webserver software to build scenarios in the SSF database for the BMDS
element data file and DIS standard protocol interface requirements.

2. Provided quick turn-around analyses on post test data to verify and validate the
pre test object ID assignments, RCS mapping assignments, and BMDS interface
/ filtering requirements.
Teledyne Brown Engineer / Teledyne Solutions Inc, Huntsville, AL 1998-2011
Provided technical guidance to MDSE and SSF software developers, helped
define required tasks, and assisted with testing efforts related to software changes,
enhancements, missile trajectory data, and MDSE/SSF integration.
Assisted with GMD and THAAD intercept lethality testing, analysis, and
reporting.
Provided technical support of PEELS / GMDPEELS development, and
provided test planning and analysis support to government sponsor for the MDA
Intercept Debris Measurement Program. Analyses reporting included
importation of DTED data into MatLab plots with trajectories and propagated
intercept debris. Additional analyses included using the MatLab image and signal
processing toolboxes with captured IR video data from flight test intercept
events, range radar operating parameters, and object/debris RCS values.
Executed KIDD and PEGEM software using flight test predicted and post test
BET data.
Identified and collected lethality related test data from integrated ground tests and
integrated flight test – velocities, positions, orientations, and photonichit
indicator data to perform lethality evaluations using PEELS and investigated
techniques to associate intercept lethality with intercept debris characteristics
based on real time radar perceptions.
Phase IV Systems Inc, Huntsville AL 1996-1998
Performed diode analyses for developing a phase shifter.
Performed design, development, testing, and analysis requirements for a high gain, low
noise pre-amplifier and prepared test documentation to validate design specifications.
Developed software in C code to extract spectrum analyzer data, via GPIB, to statistically
analyze noise properties.
Education University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 1996
BS Electrical Engineering
With emphasis on electromagnetic wave theory, signal theory and continuing studies in
radar systems and signal processing.
Activities and Societies: IEEE Aerospace and Defense
IEEE Signal Processing Society
References Furnished Upon Request