Stuart H. Starr, Ph.D.
Distinguished Research Fellow

Dr. Stuart Starr is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University, Fort McNair, Washington, DC. Concurrently, he serves as President, Barcroft Research Institute (BRI), where he consults on Command and Control (C2) issues, serves on senior advisory boards to defense industry (e.g., Northrop Grumman, Titan), lectures to audiences world-wide on C2 issues, and participates on Blue Ribbon panels (e.g., member of the Army Science Board (ASB); member of the National Research Council Task Force on Modeling and Simulation (M&S) to support the Transformation of DoD).

Prior to founding BRI, Dr. Starr was Director of Plans, The MITRE Corporation; Assistant Vice President for C3I Systems, M/A-COM Government Systems (currently a unit of SAIC); Director of Long Range Planning and Systems Evaluation, OASD(C3I), OSD (where he was member of the Senior Executive Service); and Senior Project Leader, Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA).

Dr. Starr received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University in 1963. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois in 1965 and 1969, respectively, and was a Fellow at MIT's Seminar XXI during 1989 - 1990. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Pi Mu Epsilon, a former National Science Foundation Fellow, a Fellow of the Military Operations Research Society (MORS), an Associate Fellow of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and a Senior Member of the IEEE. He was awarded the Clayton Thomas Medal for lifetime accomplishments in operations research by MORS in 2004. He has contributed to five books and published in excess of seventy-five technical papers in the areas of C2, systems acquisition, M&S, and transportation.

Dr. Starr is a member of the ASB, former chairman of the AIAA Technical Committee on Information and C2 Systems, former member of the Board of Directors of MORS, and a frequent participant on White House Task Forces, NATO panels, and summer studies sponsored by the Director of Net Assessment, OSD.