Kyle Usbeck

Kyle Usbeck

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Head of Federal Software
United States

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  • Skydio
    Head of Federal Software
    Skydio
    May 2023 - Current (3 years 5 months)
  • STR
    Autonomy Section Lead
    STR
    Jan 2023 - Apr 2023 (4 months)
  • STR
    Autonomy Lead
    STR
    Apr 2020 - Jan 2023 (2 years 10 months)
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    Senior Scientist / Software Engineer
    Raytheon BBN Technologies
    Oct 2019 - Apr 2020 (7 months)
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    Software Engineer / Scientist
    Raytheon BBN Technologies
    Sep 2010 - Apr 2020 (9 years 8 months)
    At BBN Technologies, Kyle conducts research & development and business development serving as the technical lead, principal investigator, and project manager for several projects.

    Command and Control of Aggregate Swarm Tactics (CCAST) [DARPA]: The goal of the DARPA OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program is to advance and accelerate elements of enabling swarm technologies, focusing on the swarm autonomy and human-swarm teaming components of swarm system capabilities. Kyle helped to procure the project and build the infrastructure for enabling 250+ node heterogeneous unmanned system swarms.

    Centralized Control of Commercial Drones (C3D) and Persistent Close Air Support (PCAS) [DARPA]: command and control for sm
  • University of Edinburgh
    Visiting Member of the Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute
    University of Edinburgh
    Sep 2008 - Dec 2008 (4 months)
    Kyle developed extensions to an automated planning framework to abstract an existing planner’s search algorithm, allow users to define domain-dependent plan evaluations, and visualize plan evaluations in mixed-initiative planning. The purpose of his project was to improve the ability of agents to construct and choose among plans to be executed in distributed environments.
  • Drakontas LLC
    Lead Software Engineer
    Drakontas LLC
    Jun 2005 - Sep 2010 (5 years 4 months)
    Kyle was the technical manager of a project developing a communication environment for forensic scientists and crime scene investigators. The project was funded by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and has helped Drakontas acquire revenue and solidify their position in the situation awareness market.

    Kyle also conducted research and development on the DragonForce™ situation awareness software suite. This work provided Kyle experience designing and implementing a system using XMPP, JavaME, BlackBerry development, Python, and SQL. DragonForce™ helped Drakontas secure a US Department of Justice (DoJ) grant to become the Criminal Justice Communications Technologies Center of Excellence.

    Kyle also functioned as the le
  • Drexel University
    Research Assistant at Secure Wireless Agent Testbed (SWAT)
    Drexel University
    Jun 2003 - Jun 2009 (6 years 1 month)
    Kyle managed a team of ten in conducting an evaluation of WIMAX technology for tactical operations in urban environments. Working on this project required Kyle to hone his project management, team coordination, organization, and writing skills in addition to the research and development necessary to accurately test WIMAX equipment. The result of the evaluation was a technical report delivered to the Department of Justice (DoJ).

    Kyle co-managed a project team of seven in developing an Agent System Reference Architecture, a technical recommendation for the construction of agent systems conformant to the Agent Systems Reference Model (ASRM).

    Previously at SWAT, Kyle designed and wrote a secure, location-aware, group-based
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  • Drexel University
    Master of Science, Computer Science
    Drexel University
    Jan 2008 - Jan 2009 (1 year 1 month)
    Thesis: Network-Centric Automated Planning and Execution
  • Drexel University
    Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
    Drexel University
    Jan 2003 - Jan 2007 (4 years 1 month)
    Magna Cum Laude
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    Wilson High School, West Lawn
    Wilson High School West Lawn
    Jan 1999 - Jan 2002 (3 years 1 month)
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    Protelis
    Feb 2015 - Current (11 years 8 months)
    The goal of the Protelis language is to make it easier to build a resilient and well-behaved networked system out of an assortment of different potentially mobile devices. Protelis is designed for the paradigm of "aggregate programming", a way of thinking about and decomposing problems that can be solved with a network of distributed sensors and computers. Aggregate programming tries to produce reliable and robust collective behavior from uncoordinated local interactions between machines. That's hard to do, but Protelis helps!
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    Proto
    Sep 2011 - Current (15 years 1 month)
    Proto is a language that makes it easy to write complex programs for spatial computers.

    A spatial computer is a collection of devices distributed to fill space, where the difficulty of communicating between devices is strongly dependent on their distance. Examples of spatial computers include sensor networks, robotic swarms, cells during morphogenesis, FPGAs, ad-hoc wireless systems, biofilms, and distributed control systems.
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    Excellence in Engineering and Technology (EiET)
    Issued by Raytheon
    The EiET awards represent Raytheon’s highest technical honor. The award was created to recognize and reward individuals and teams whose innovations, processes, or products have made or will make a substantial impact on the Space and Airborne Systems business.

    Kyle won this honor for his contributions to ATAK and TAK Server development.
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    Adaptive Opportunistic Airborne Sensor Sharing
    ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems Jan
    Airborne sensor platforms are becoming increasingly significant for both civilian and military operations; yet, at present, their sensors are typically idle for much of their flight time, e.g., while the sensor-equipped platform is in transit to and from the locations of sensing tasks. The sensing needs of many other potential information consumers might thus be served by sharing such sensors, thereby allowing other information consumers to opportunistically task them during their otherwise unscheduled time, as well as enabling other improvements, such as decreasing the number of platforms needed to achieve a goal and increasing the resilience of sensor tasks through duplication. We have implemented a prototype system realizing these goals
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    Trusted Mission Operation-Concept and Implementation
    International Conference on Runtime Verification Sep
    Small unmanned vehicles support many mission critical tasks. However, the provenance of these systems is usually not known, devices may be deployed in contested environments, and operators are often not computer system experts. Yet, the benefits of these systems outweigh the risks, and critical tasks and data are delegated to these systems without a sound basis for assessing trust. This paper describes an approach that can determine an operator’s trust in a mission system and applies continuous monitoring to indicate if the performance is within a trusted operating region. In an early prototype we (a) define a multi-dimensional trusted operating region for a given mission, (b) monitor the system in-mission, and (c) detect when anomalous eff
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