Scott Swerdlin

Director
National Security Applications Program
303.497.8378
swerdlinucar.edu

Job Duties

Mr Swerdlin currently directs the activities of RAL's National Security program. This includes managing and providing oversight for several programs related to homeland security and defense, under the sponsorship of agencies such as DARPA, PFPA, DTRA, NGIC, ATEC, and DHS. He also manages commercial and international programs which have elements of numerical weather prediction, research in the atmospheric sciences, and operational decision support. He directs the activities of a staff of 40 scientists and engineers, and has considerable experience in large-scale modeling and software engineering projects.

Mr Swerdlin is also Director of Programs for STAR Institute (Science and Technology in Atmospheric Research). STAR is affiliated with the UCAR Foundation, and conducts R&D for classified DoD projects.

Professional Interests

Mr Swerdlin's technical expertise is in modeling and simulation, signal processing, and space-based communications. Over the years his research interests have been in advanced signal processing methods, and how they can be applied to the post-processing of numerical weather prediction model output at all scales of motion, resulting in better simulations of how the atmosphere contributes to the transport of hazardous materials. He currently has interests in applying his group's science and technology to developing nations.

Education

M.S., Electrical Engineering, The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, US, 1986
B.S., Electrical Engineering, The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, US, 1980

Selected Publications

Selected Publications (all peer-reviewed):
Bowers, J. F., S. P. Swerdlin, T. T. Warner, and Y. Liu, 2002: A real-time meteorological data assimilation and forecast system to support Army RDT&E. The ITEA Journal of Test and Evaluation, 23, 49-52.

Warner, T. T., J. F. Bowers, S. P. Swerdlin, and B. A. Beitler, 2004: A rapidly deployable, operational, mesoscale modeling system for emergency-response applications. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 85, 709-716.

Astling A., J. Bowers, T. Huck, S. Swerdlin, T. Warner, and C. Drews, 2005: Development of synthetic environments using high performance computing for planning and implementing distributed test events. Submitted to The ITEA Journal of Test and Evaluation

Warner, T., P. Benda and S. Swerdlin, and others, 2005: The Pentagon Shield Field Study - Toward Critical Infrastructure Protection. Submitted to Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc