Dane earned a BS in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT in 2008. Upon graduation, he was hired as a civil servant at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center within the Guidance, Navigation and Mission Analysis Branch where he worked for nearly 12 years performing high fidelity dynamics Modeling and Simulation and simulation software development, primarily in the area of liftoff, separation/staging and jettison events for the Space Launch System. At the time of his departure, he held the roles of Liftoff and Separation Dynamics Team Lead – managing a team of 5-10 engineers - and Space Launch System Vehicle Management to Booster Element Discipline Lead Engineer, earning several Agency and Center level awards including a NASA Early Career Achievement Medal and a NASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal. Dane left NASA to briefly work at Dynetics on the Flight Dynamics & Design Team doing mainly Modeling and Simulation on projects such as Human (Lunar) Lander System and DARPA OpFires, before joining GuideTech in the Fall 2021.

Spencer received a B.S. in Physics from the University of Kansas and is a Part 107 certified UAS operator. As an Integration and Test specialist, Spencer assists with UAS build, hardware integration, tooling development, flight test operations, model validation and system identification. Spencer developed a python aerodynamic estimation and aero database generation tool for fixed-wing UAVs using AVL and other panel method codes. Spencer has a unique ability to tackle complex multi-disciplinary problems. His thoughtful thorough approach brings precision to our flight-test operations.

Will holds a M.S. in aerospace engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville in addition to bachelor's degrees in both aerospace engineering and physics from Auburn University. He has focused much of his career on aerospace modeling and simulation, developing 6DOF simulations for a variety of unmanned platforms as well as conducting flight and software test operations for those vehicles. Recently, he has led efforts related to spacecraft mission design, orbital analysis and optimization, GNC development and testing, and creating visualizations for simulation environments. Other projects have involved lethality estimation, fragment tracking algorithms, radar signature analysis, and scene generation. He has also conducted academic research in the fields of atomic, nuclear, and space physics. Will is passionate about understanding how all sorts of systems work and how to describe them. He hopes to use his knowledge and skills to further the exploration and traversal of space.

Jackson graduated from the University of Kansas in 2021 with a B.S. in Physics. During his time as an undergrad, he spent over a year working on the RBSPICE SOC team with NASA’s Van Allen Probes. He is deeply passionate about anything relating to science, but as a fan of science fiction, space travel has always been of particular interest to him. His other projects include a wide range of subjects, from developing machine learning models that calculates the relative motion of distant galaxies to making a physics education web game. Jackson joined GuideTech in early 2022 and is excited at the opportunity to learn new skills.

Joe earned a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Purdue University, where he is currently pursuing an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering. Prior to joining GuideTech in 2022, he worked as an aerospace engineer focused on modeling and simulation, where he supported software- and hardware-in-the-loop simulations for multiple Army UAS programs, hardware-in-the-loop simulations for a crewed lunar lander program, and model-based design for flight software development and deployment for a high-speed experimental vehicle. Joe has a passion for digging deep into complex problems in order to find the best solution possible, learning as much as he can along the way.

Mr. Geier retired as an Engineering Fellow at Raytheon Missile Systems, where he led navigation efforts in a number of applications, including: navigation Monte Carlo and covariance analysis in support of multiple programs; math models for multi-antenna arrays to assess GPS performance in jamming environments; RTK algorithm development in support of precise relative positioning applications; multi-ship jammer geolocation analysis for an IRAD effort. In addition, Mr. Geier taught “Introduction to Inertial Navigation” and “Introduction to GPS” at the Raytheon Learning Institute.

Prior to Raytheon, Mr. Geier spent more than 36 years with integrated navigation systems, GPS navigation and signal processing, and GPS Anti-Jam (AJ) analysis and integrity monitoring. His past experience in GPS/INS integration includes both military (Draper Laboratory, TASC, Intermetrics, and The Aerospace Corporation) and commercial (Trimble and Motorola) applications. At Motorola, he led efforts to integrate their GPS receiver technology with dead-reckoning sensors for automotive applications and designed signal processing approaches for cell phone integration of GPS. He was appointed to Motorola’s Science Advisory Board in recognition of his technical leadership.

Mr. Geier is a member of the Institute of Navigation and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and holds 38 navigation-related patents. He received his BS and MS degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT, and is a former instructor for NavTech Seminars, where he taught a two-day course in GPS/INS integration nationwide for ten years. He is also a co-author of Understanding GPS: Principles and Applications, ArTech House, first and second editions.