Dr. Jan Osburg

* Contributing to projects on military air and space assets and on NASA's aeronautics program * Provided strategic support to Multinational Force - Iraq and Combined Special Operations Component Command - Afghanistan * Additional research interests in the areas of piracy, emergency preparedness, and nuclear weapons effects

* Embedded with the Commander's Initiative Group, Combined Forces Special Operations Command - Afghanistan (CFSOCC-A), as part of a RAND project * Refined and implemented assessment program for CFSOCC-A's main counterinsurgency effort that spanned security, development and governance lines of operation * Wrote or edited multiple information papers on strategic issues facing CFSOCC-A

* Embedded with the Combined Joint Operations directorate (CJ3) of MNF-I as part of a RAND project * Provided direct support to the Joint Inter-Agency Task Force - Iraq, which was tasked with addressing strategic regional threats. * Updated interagency plan to counter Al-Qaeda in Iraq * Designed strategy to neutralize other violent insurgent groups

* Developed of probabilistic design space exploration tools for chemical and nuclear space propulsion systems and hypersonic vehicles * Supported sponsors in determining technology investment portfolios for aeronautics and space exploration * Created + managed collaborative design facility

* Developed interdisciplinary design methodology aimed at improving human integration into complex systems * Organized and directed international, interdisciplinary workshops on the conceptual design of space stations * Lectured on Human Factors, life support systems and conceptual design

* Developed user-friendly life cycle cost estimation tool for US military helicopters * Programmed and used simulation and analysis software for concurrent design

Developed and field-tested Ada software increasing the accuracy of a navigation system based on the AN/PSN-11 (PLGR) GPS receiver, INS and Kalman filtering

Participated in design, testing and production planning of Airbus aircraft

Maintained and repaired radio equipment in German Army/NATO signal unit

Researched national security and emergency preparedness issues: - Critical infrastructure protection - Nuclear proliferation and counter-proliferation - Energy policy research - Emergency communications - Nuclear effects analysis/visualization

interdisciplinary conceptual design of inhabited space systems

systems engineering, robust design

space systems, controls