The ATIC Community 
Our outstanding faculty is drawn from the professionals who have served in many aspects of the intelligence community, including employment or contract work with the Air Force Institute of Technology, Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Cedarville University, DOD intelligence-related missions, National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC), US Air Force, US Air Force Academy, US State Department, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, and Wright State University. Our staff includes:
Dr. Howard E. Evans
Physics at the Air Force Institute of Technology, and a Principal Member of the Research Staff at Riverside Research Institute. He is familiar with the necessity for near real time reliable operational intelligence from a career in the Air Force as a combat aircrew member in the Southeast Asian and European theaters of operations. He has served as the Acting Director for MASINT Data Exploitation at the National Air Intelligence Center and as a Senior Scientist on the COBRA BRASS program with the Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. after retirement from 23 years of active duty. He is a frequent contributor to the Military Sensing Symposia, notably in the areas of sensor calibration and transient event phenomenology, with major contributions to the theories of monocular passive ranging and asynchronous undersampling signature reconstruction. His teaching experience in near-Earth environmental physics, navigation, and remote sensing spans more than twenty years on the faculties of the US Air Force Academy, the Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright State University, and Cedarville University. Informally, he developed and taught the course "MASINT 101" - the precursor to the present Program for analysts and collection managers - throughout the intelligence community. BS, Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1968; MS, Engineering Physics (Laser Optics), Air Force Institute of Technology, 1976; PhD, Astro-Geophysics, Americus U., 1985.
Mr. Shawn A. Kalis
Mr. Shawn A. Kalis is a member of the Research Staff at Riverside Research Institute and has over 20 years of active duty military intelligence experience with the U.S. Air Force. Additionally he served as Crisis Management Instructor and Evaluator for the U.S. State Department, and five years as an Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS) contractor directly supporting DOD intelligence-related missions. Mr. Kalis possess extensive knowledge and experience in All-Source analysis, SIGINT, MASINT, IMINT and OSINT at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels. He has served as a Russian/East European tactical and strategic analyst, Middle East/North African Area Specialist, Terrorism and Force Protection Analyst/Instructor, and a Crisis Management Specialist. Mr. Kalis also possesses broad expertise and knowledge in national and tactical intelligence planning, tasking, collection, processing, exploitation, analysis and dissemination, and has served in program management, planning, and budgeting positions from the unit to the service headquarters level. He is presently assigned as a Deputy Program Manager and A&AS contractor to the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC), Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. Mr. Kalis earned a BGS in Communications at the University of Nebraska in 1989, an MA in Middle East Studies at the University of Texas in 1994, and is presently a PhD student at George Mason University, Arlington, VA, specializing in Conflict Analysis and Resolution.
Dr. James J. Lange
Dr. Lange is an Adjunct Associate professor of Physics in the Department of Engineering Physics at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT). He currently has been teaching in AFIT's Advanced Geospatial Intelligence Certificate Program. He has over 35 years of professional experience involving remote sensing techniques, sensors, and data analysis and exploitation. These sensing applications include surveillance, reconnaissance, and targeting from various airborne and satellite platforms using sensors in the ultraviolet, visible, and infrared, utilizing passive and active techniques. His most recent efforts have emphasized multispectral and hyperspectral sensing techniques in the visible through thermal infrared and also broadband thermal and polarimetric imaging techniques. Activities have included mission requirement evaluation, investigations for initial sensor feasibility assessment, sensor design, algorithm evaluation, data analysis, sensor end-to-end performance prediction as well as the preparation and presentation of advocacy and training materials. He has taught undergraduate and graduate level courses for over 11 years, advised 32 MS theses in the above areas, developed 7 new courses, and helped develop two new academic programs. For the new courses, he has developed and distributed complete lecture notes in absence of any suitable textbook. BS, Engineering Physics, University of Illinois, MS and PhD, Physics, University of Wisconsin.
Dr. Deanne W. Otto
Dr. Deanne Otto has over ten years experience in curriculum development, educational testing and measurement, and teaching at the university level in statistics, education, and remote sensing. She has worked as a biostatistician, statistical consultant, and psychometrician as well as an educational mentor and dissertation committee chair. While attending the University of North Dakota's John D. Odegard Center for Aerospace Sciences in pursuit of her Master’s degree, she was a NASA Space Grant Fellow. Dr. Otto’s current responsibilities include facilitating and coordinating the development of degree and certificate program with ATIC partnering colleges and universities, and teaching courses within the Advanced Technical Intelligence certificate and degree programs. Dr. Otto holds a Doctorate in Research Methodology and Statistics, a Master’s in Space Studies and Remote Sensing, and a Bachelor’s in Biology.
Dr. John R. O'Hair
Dr. O'Hair has spent the last 10 years developing MASINT systems for the Air Force and the Department of Defense. His experience ranges from developing, launching and tasking space-based hyperspectral sensors, fielding prototype processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination systems, developing upgrades for fielded Synthetic Aperture Radar systems, and developing and flight testing prototype Radio Frequency MASINT sensors on classified platforms. He directed Research and Development of the COBRA BRASS system, and created the program for spectropolarimetric research within the Air Force Research Laboratory. Dr. O'Hair holds a BSEE (U.S. Air Force Academy), an MSEE (Texas Tech U.), and a PhD in EE - Signal Processing (AFIT), as well as an MBA (U. of West Florida).
Mr. Harrell J. Van Norman
Mr. Van Norman is an experienced university professor (University of California and University of Dayton) teaching graduate level network engineering and management information systems classes for over 20 years. He is also a skilled and certified principal network design engineer (CISSP, CCNA, CCDA, CCDP, CCNP, Security+, e-Biz+, Network+, I-Net+) with over 25 years' experience in design, implementation, management and optimization. Mr. Van Norman has a balanced background of modeling and analysis, simulation and optimization, local and wide-area network security, routing, switching, firewalls, remote access, video, wireless, broadband, fiber optics, web-based client/server, and mainframe computer systems. He has experience in the design, implementation, management, and maintenance of interconnect strategies and infrastructure operations. Mr. Van Norman holds a MS in Engineering from the University of Dayton and a BS in Systems Science Engineering from Michigan State University.