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 Mr. Gerard Walles NAVAIR, Avionics Department AIR-4.5 Staff Director for Open Architecture & Information Assurance (Information Systems Security Engineering) Mr. Walles was born 1958 in Sri Lanka. At age of 9, his family immigrated to Australia whereby, in 1982, he earned a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering with a dual major in both high power and electronics from Swinburne University Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Currently, he is NAVAIR's Technical Authority Team Lead for Open Architecture & Information Systems Security Engineering (ISSE). To work such areas, he has accumulated a broad view of business and technical confluence related factors that govern NAVAIR’s Avionic Systems Engineering Department. He has chaired numerous open and secure avionic systems workshops, both domestic and international events. He was also chaired technical standards working groups such as with SAE’s Avionics Systems Division, and STANAG’s Aviation Systems Panels. He started his career in June of 1982, as a systems engineer with Hawker De Havilland, in Melbourne, Australia. After two years on this job, he was selected to lead an engineering team to Sikorsky Aircraft, Stratford, Connecticut. During this assignment, he successfully fused US and Australian engineers to design manufacture and test an array of MH-53E trainers in Australia. In 1990, Sikorsky Aircraft offered him a permanent position and US citizenship as a Senior Avionics Engineering working special IR&D projects. In 1992, he was appointed as working group chairman under the Joint Integrated Avionics Working Group (JIAWG) focusing on commonality network standards for the USAF F-22 and US Army’s RAH-66 program. In 1996, he resigned from industry and joined Naval Aviation Team at Patuxent River, Maryland. In this position, he worked numerous S&T & Acquisition programs such as Fly-by-Light; Vehicle Management, and on-board network centric architectures. In 2000, he was successful in implementing fiber optic networks into the F/A-18 Super Hornet platform. In 2002, he was granted an 18 months rotation position with the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Code 35 as their Deputy Director for special project supporting the Middle Pacific region (MIDPAC). He was exposed Congressional plus-up programs. He worked on a variety of technical challenges such as E-2C’s UESA antenna; UAV C2 architectures, and USMC’s Ship-to-Shore Maneuver (STOM) real time data models challenges. After the ONR assignment, he returned to NAVAIR to become the S&T lead for the entire F/A-18 Program Office. In November 2006, he accepted a staff Director within the Avionics Department (AIR-4.5) for Open Architecture and Information Security Engineering. Mr. Walles has graduated from NAVAIR’s Senior Executive Management Development Program (SEMDP) and has received numerous recognition awards for both technical and TEAM driven events. Return to Event Details |
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