INCOSE is pleased to announce the appointment of Alexander Levis as "Associate Director Strategy, Academic Matters and R&D". Having recently completed a three year appointment as the Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force, Dr. Levis is University Professor of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering and heads the System Architectures Laboratory of the C3I Center, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. We look forward to the experience and insight that Alex brings in supporting INCOSE's strategic efforts.

 

 

Dr. Alexander H. Levis is University Professor of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering and heads the System Architectures Laboratory of the C3I Center, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. He recently completed a three year appointment as the Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force, on leave from GMU. He was educated at MIT where he received the BS (1965), MS (1965), ME (1967), and Sc.D. (1968) degrees in Mechanical Engineering with control systems as his area of specialization.  He also attended Ripon College where he received the AB degree (1963) in Mathematics and Physics. Dr. Levis is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and past president of the IEEE Control Systems Society; a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a Fellow of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE); an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA); and serves on the board of the Educational Foundation of AFCEA. He has received three times the Exceptional Civilian Service medal from the Air Force (1994, 2001, 2004) for contributions as a member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board and as Chief Scientist. He has also received the Air Force Chief’s Medallion and the Third Millennium medal from IEEE.

 

He has taught at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (1968-1973), headed the Systems Research Dept. at Systems Control, Inc. in Palo Alto, CA (1973-1979), was a senior research scientist at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at MIT (1979-1990), and moved to George Mason University in 1990 where he headed twice the Systems Engineering department. For the last fifteen years, his areas of research have been system architectures including organization architecture design and evaluation, adaptive architectures for command and control, methodologies for architecture design and evaluation. Current research focus is the application of discrete event system theory to a variety of architecture and command and control problems. He has over 250 publications documenting his research, including the three volume set that he co-edited on “The Science of Command and Control”, published by AFCEA, and the forthcoming “The Limitless Sky: Air Force Science and Technology contributions to the Nation”.