Senior Principal Software Engineer @ From July 2015 to Present (6 months) Director of Robotics and Advanced Computing @ Current • Leading autonomous systems research portfolio. Chief architect for ground robotics program which originated with MITRE’s entry in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. • Champion for challenge-based acquisition strategy at the Joint Improvised Explosive Device (IED) Defeat Office (JIEDDO) using robot testing in coordination with the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST). • Corporate strategy advisor leading red teams to review internal research investment portfolio and customer projects. Selected Previous Roles and Projects Chief Software Architect, MITRE Autonomous Ground Vehicle Led the software design and development for the MITRE 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge entry. The Grand Challenge was a contest to build an autonomous ground vehicle that will travel across more than 140 miles of desert without human intervention. Joint Simulation System Chief Engineer Assumed the technical leadership role of this $1.6B project as part of the Joint Simulation System (JSIMS) reorganization. Held primary responsible for the overall JSIMS architectural evolution. This included leadership of the JSIMS Alliance Technical Group, publication and periodic revision of the system architecture document, and technical coordination of more than 30 software contractors. Principal Investigator, Internal Research to Improve Java Simulation Performance Two year effort to equip Java with the necessary speed and capacity for the construction of large-scale, interacting-process simulations. Architect, HLA Runtime Infrastructure Verification Facility Designed and managed the development of the High Level Architecture (HLA) Runtime Infrastructure (RTI) verification facility. An essential part of the Defense Modeling and Simulation Office (DMSO) technology transfer strategy for the HLA is a private sector economy for the production of HLA RTI software. This position is associated with: From August 1986 to July 2015 (29 years) Developer @ From 1984 to 1986 (2 years)

BS, MS, PhD, Electrical Engineering @ Clemson University From 1974 to 1984 Middleton High School Richard Weatherly is skilled in: Robotics, Software Engineering, Engineering, Modeling, Simulations, Embedded Systems, Optimization, Data Mining, Simulink, Systems Engineering, DoD, Defense, Requirements Analysis, Algorithms, Strategy