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William M. Brown – Biography
Mr. William M. Brown is Head of the Engineering Division at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. The division is the Laboratory's center of expertise in mechanical design and engineering, aerodynamics, thermal design and analysis, structures, optics, control systems, materials, and fabrication. The Engineering Division supports all mission areas in the development of quality hardware for prototype demonstrations.
Mr. Brown is the former Head of the Aerospace Division, where he was responsible for research and development in the areas of space surveillance, space control, space-based sensors and airborne sensors.
Prior to his becoming a division head, he was founder and Leader of the Sensor Technology and Systems Group, where he initiated a new mission area in Environmental Monitoring. He also participated in National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) studies to define new instruments, spacecraft, and technology for geostationary and polar environmental satellites. The scope of this work includes laboratory technology demonstrations, prototype instrument development, and flight demonstrations. He was a member of NASA’s Earth System Science and Application Advisory Committee from 2003 to 2005.
Mr. Brown joined the Laboratory in 1969. In his early research, he developed electronic countermeasure concepts for strategic missile systems, designed prototype hardware, and demonstrated these countermeasures in experimental flight tests. He invented the Electronic Replica Decoy and led the program to develop and flight test a prototype decoy.
Mr. Brown holds BEE and MSEE degrees in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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