Robert Shin receives NDIA Combat Survivability Award for Leadership
The Nationwide Protection Industrial Affiliation (NDIA) has acknowledged Robert T-I. Shin of MIT Lincoln Laboratory with the 2022 Rear Admiral Robert H. Gormley Fight Survivability Award for Management.
Shin, principal employees within the laboratory’s Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) and Tactical Systems divisions and director of the Beaver Works Center, is well known throughout the U.S. Division of Protection (DoD) as a pacesetter within the air automobile survivability (AVS) neighborhood. Throughout his practically 40-year profession, he has led crucial AVS analysis packages and developed prototype airborne radio-frequency, electro-optical, infrared, acoustic, and different programs in assist of nationwide protection. Over the previous decade, he has championed STEM training, pioneering hands-on packages on the college and highschool ranges to reveal college students to profession alternatives in nationwide protection.
“I’m deeply honored to obtain this award,” says Shin. “I wish to thank all my colleagues, mentors, and buddies within the AVS Analysis program at Lincoln Laboratory. It has been an exquisite journey — one that may not have been potential with out their assist — and I’m grateful to be a part of this neighborhood.”
“Bob’s long-standing management contributions to the Air Drive, the aerospace neighborhood, and STEM outreach initiatives make him exceptionally certified to obtain this award,” says ISR and Tactical Methods Division Head Marc Viera.
For greater than 100 years, NDIA has supplied a platform for presidency, business, and academia leaders to collaborate and develop options for advancing the nation’s nationwide safety and protection wants. Every year, NDIA presents awards to people and teams who’ve made main contributions in assist of such wants. The Fight Survivability Division yearly presents awards to acknowledge those that have made distinctive achievements within the fight survivability area. The RADM Robert H. Gormley award highlights a person who has demonstrated excellent management in enhancing general fight survivability or performed a big function in a significant side of survivability design, program administration, analysis and improvement, take a look at and analysis, modeling and simulation, training, or requirements improvement.
For a lot of his profession, Shin has supplied management to the AVS Evaluation program, which assesses vulnerabilities of U.S. Air Drive (USAF) automobiles and U.S. house property to threats. These assessments help USAF and DoD leaders in making expertise improvement and acquisition selections. Shin’s group has utilized state-of-the-art system modeling and evaluation to present and rising applied sciences for all main USAF superior packages.
Past his technical management, Shin conceived of the idea and helped notice the imaginative and prescient for Beaver Works. Collectively chartered by Lincoln Laboratory and MIT College of Engineering, this heart is a nexus for collaboration and innovation, with areas for idea improvement, prototype fabrication, and classroom studying. In recognition of his efforts, Shin obtained the 2014 Irwin Sizer Award for the Most Important Enchancment to MIT Schooling. In 2016, Shin launched the Beaver Works Summer Institute, a four-week residential program for top schoolers to interact in project-based, workshop-style programs.
Shin joined the laboratory in 1984. Previous to changing into principal employees, Shin headed the ISR and Tactical Methods divisions and beforehand the Homeland Safety and Tactical Methods Division. All through his profession, he has held a number of appointments, together with as an Intergovernmental Personnel Act appointee to the Air Drive Fast Capabilities Workplace and as a member of the Air Drive Scientific Advisory Board. Shin is an affiliate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and earned BS, SM, and PhD levels in electrical engineering from MIT.
Shin was offered with the 2022 RADM Robert H. Gormley Fight Survivability Award for Management at NDIA’s Plane Survivability Symposium held in early November on the Naval Postgraduate College in Monterey, California. The opposite annual Fight Survivability Division Awards are the Fight Survivability Award for Technical Achievement and the Professor Robert E. Ball Younger Skilled Award for Fight Survivability. Often, the division presents the Lifetime Achievement Award. A number of Lincoln Laboratory employees have been recipients of those awards over time: Hsiu Han (Technical Achievement, 2021), Laura Ross (Younger Skilled, 2019), Eva Nickelson (Younger Skilled, 2017), David Ebel (Technical Achievement, 2016), Alan Bernard (Management, 2009), and Lew Thurman (Technical Achievement, 2003).