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Dr. Stephen D. Huffman is vice president and chief technology officer. As chief technology officer, Dr. Huffman is responsible for managing and shaping MITRE's investments in research and development.
Dr. Huffman joined MITRE in 1988 and has held a variety of positions in support of MITRE's work for the DOD. Most recently, he served as Chief Engineer of the Washington Command, Control, and Communications Center where he was responsible for oversight of technical activities for a 1,000-person technical organization that supports 150 DOD projects, technical skill centers, and laboratory facilities. He oversaw the formulation and execution of a $15 million independent research and development program. He also served as technical director of MITRE's Center for Innovative Computing and Informatics, which focuses a 300-person staff on providing MITRE research and expert support for high-performance networking, distributed information systems, modeling and simulation, intelligent systems, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, human language processing, software engineering, high-assurance systems, and advanced command and control.
He was previously the associate technical director of the Navy Systems and Technology Division and director of the Signal Processing Technical Center. In those positions, he was responsible for the management and technical direction of programs in mathematics, neural networks, acoustics signal processing, communications technology, speech recognition, advanced computer architectures, very large scale integrated (VLSI) circuit design, signals intelligence, and electro-optical signal processing.
Dr. Huffman is an expert in communications theory, error-correction coding, communications networking, Internet protocols, satellite communications, anti-jam and low-probability-of-intercept communications, radio frequency and laser communications, spread spectrum, digital signal processing, detection and estimation theory, modeling and simulation, large-scale software development processes, and the design and analysis of hardware and software systems.
Before joining MITRE, Dr. Huffman was director of research and development at M/A-COM Linkabit in Vienna, Va., where he developed anti-jam and low-probability-of-intercept communications systems, error-correction coders, speech store-and-forward systems, satellite communications, and signals intelligence systems. From 1978 to 1983, Dr. Huffman was supervisor of the Signal Processing Section of the Center for Systems Engineering at the Research Triangle Institute (RTI). At RTI, he developed and evaluated algorithms for underwater acoustic signal processing, radar signal processing, radio navigation, atmospheric monitoring, and spread spectrum communications. Dr. Huffman has also served as an adjunct assistant professor of electrical engineering at Duke University, teaching communications theory and digital signal processing. He is an instructor for the Armed Forces Communications Engineering Association (AFCEA) course on Military Satellite Communications.
Dr. Huffman received his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from Duke University in 1974, 1976, and 1978, respectively, and is a graduate of the General Manager Program at Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and serves as a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Communications, and IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. He has published numerous papers, and has organized and chaired sessions on tactical communications at the 1989 and 1998 IEEE Military Communications Conferences. He was the technical program chairman for the 2001 IEEE Military Communications Conference.
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