Michael Mirda, Vice President, 3001 Federal Services : Mr. Mirda is the Vice President of 3001's Federal Services business line which serves the Intelligence and Defense community with geospatial and all-source analysis and systems engineering. After earning his BS degree from St Louis University, Mr. Mirda began his career as a structural design engineer at McDonnell-Douglas on the AV08B (Harrier) program. He then served for three years as an Air Launched Weapons Analyst with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the Directorate of Intelligence (DI). Mr. Mirda worked as a civilian in the Air Force for eight years where he served in both CONUS and Overseas positions. He served two separate tours in Australia at the Joint Defense Facility at Pine Gap as a Mission Assessor, Collection Manager, Mission Planner, and Evaluator. In between tours, Mr. Mirda worked in the Non-Proliferation Center where he established the Manufacturing and Ballistic Missile Technology Thrust Manager Position. Mr. Mirda is a certified Contracting Officers Technical Representative (COTR) and provided technical management for both analysis and acquisition contracts.

Since leaving the government, Mr. Mirda has spent his last 12 years in the industry, beginning as a Member of the Technical Staff at Stanford Telecommunications and MRJ Technology Solutions where he was the program manager for a large system engineering contract and provided Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance to the Government on Mission Management and Information Technology R&D programs. He came to 3001 Inc after 10 years contracting with firms such as General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems (formerly Veridian) where he earned the title of Senior Manager responsible for the Aerospace Engineering Business Area. Mr. Mirda has managed programs from $100K to over $10M and a business area from $25-50M per year.

Mr. Mirda received his bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from Parks College, St. Louis University. He has taken numerous graduate courses from UCLA, George Washington University, Virginia Tech, and University of Tennessee Space Institute.