As an accomplished program manager, chief engineer, test director, and system engineer, Perry Martin has developed projects on a variety of Army, NASA, Navy, Air Force and company independent research and development (IR&D) programs for unmanned ground vehicles, air and missile defense, smart munitions, precision navigation and timing and the Space Station. Perry is a founder and vice president of systems engineering at IS4S and serves in the role of secretary for the board of directors. He has more than 38 years of experience in program management and engineering in defense and space systems development. He was chief engineer on commercial business development with the Russian space company, Energia, to develop space-based facilities for supporting external Earth observation payloads on the Russian space station, Mir, and placed Earth observation payloads on the Mir Space Station. He also served as the program manager for the Multifunctional Utility Logistics Equipment (MULE) vehicle that integrated the Autonomous Navigation System (ANS) to provide autonomous operation. The MULE and ANS programs are an integral part of the U.S. Army Future Combat Systems effort to modernize the U. S. military forces.  

Most recently, Perry has applied his experience in support of Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) technical volume proposal and program execution planning; proposal manager for Ship to Shore Connector (SSC) which resulted in a total contract value win of +$2B for our customer; test director for Tactical Armored Patrol Vehicle (TAPV) Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Durability (RAMD) at Nevada Automotive Test Center (NATC); and lead systems engineer for Joint Battle Command - Platform Network Operations Center (JBC-P) field orders capability.  

Perry has also supported the Resilient-Embedded Global Positioning System (GPS) / Inertial Navigation System (INS) (R-EGI) and Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Software-Defined User Equipment (PNT SDUE) in program planning and schedule risk assessment.