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Dedicated Professionals

NDRC’s strength starts with its people. Our team brings together technical knowledge, operational insight, and a shared commitment to advancing secure, mission-relevant capabilities for the future.

The NDRC Team of Dedicated Professionals has:

30

years of Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications enterprise capabilities experience

30

years of Strategic Mission Systems and Mission Planning for Nuclear Operations and decision support and assessment processes to enhance operational capabilities experience

15

years of modeling, simulation, and systems engineering and identification and application of emerging technologies experience

7

years of development of emerging technologies demonstrations and requirements refinement and prioritization for future concepts experience

26

years of wireless networks and advanced telecommunications for mission-critical operations

Leadership

Jerry "INDY" Gandy SES (Ret)

Chief Executive Officer

Robert Thomas

Chief Operating Officer

Timothy Ferracci

Chief Program Officer

Lewis H. Arnold

Chief Facilities, Security and Personnel Officer

Scott "CAT" Stevens

Chief Information Officer

Thomas Narofsky, Ph.D.

Chief Transition Officer

Operations & Research

Timothy Ferracci

Chief Program Officer

Curtis Hornbeak

Director of Operations and Demonstrations

Barb Hirz

Director of Workforce Development and Academic Outreach

Sadie Westfall-Shannon

Academic Outreach Program Manager

Juan K. Ulloa

Program Manager for Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis

Monty Hoskinson

Program Manager for Cooperative, Research, and Development Agreement

Infrastructure & IT Operations

Scott "CAT" Stevens

Chief Information Officer

Caleb Snyder

Senior Network Engineer

Jeffrey Thiem

Network Engineer

Sean Licari

Senior IT Systems and Support Lead

Derek Verhelst

System Administrator

Evan Bierdman

Infrastructure Specialist

Jordan Hammond

IT Telecommunications Administrator

Joseph Reis

Information Systems Security Officer

Daniel Means

Information Systems Security Manager

Matthew Osher

Cybersecurity Engineer

Joseph Manno

Customer Support Specialist

Niel Moore

System Administrator

Greg Spears

Customer Support Specialist

Brent Dutton

Junior Systems Administrator

Facility, Security & Personnel

Lewis H. Arnold

Chief Facilities, Security and Personnel Officer

William Smoots Jr.

Site Security Officer

James Laney

Site Security Officer

Valerie Meyer

Human Resource Manager

D'Ann Fiala

Accounting and Compliance Manager

Transition Operations Office

Thomas Narofsky, Ph.D.

Chief Transition Officer

William Thomaston Jr.

Senior Transition Program Manager

Garrett May

Program Manager

Craig Schatz

Tempest and Security Operations Director

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Ready To Take The Next Step?

NDRC is focused on accelerating acquisition through innovation and emerging technologies for the Warfighter, sponsored by the Nuclear Enterprise Center to find, demonstrate and deliver secure, mission-enhancing capabilities. We are looking for capability demonstrations, technology insight and new ideas that can provide critical information to government sponsors for future C3 capability needs—and enable innovation for our government partners.

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