Scott Swerdlin

Director
National Security Applications Program
303.497.8378
swerdlinucar.edu

Job Duties

Scott Swerdlin is Director of the National Security Applications Program (NSAP) for NCAR’s Research Applications Laboratory, and is also Director of STAR Institute (Science and Technology in Atmospheric Science), a spinoff organization conducting classified research. Both NSAP and STAR are dedicated to enhancing our National security, specializing in urban and building protection against airborne releases of hazardous agents due to terrorist activities or industrial accidents. Mr. Swerdlin manages a group of 50 scientists and engineers working on diverse areas of S&T, with sponsorship from DoD agencies such as DTRA, DARPA, PFPA, NGIC, ATEC, and DHS. He also manages several commercial and international programs which have elements of numerical weather prediction, research in the atmospheric sciences, and operational decision support. He provides direct oversight for over 15 projects, and has considerable experience with large-scale weather modeling systems and software development processes.

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.

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