Lonnie Hearne 16 connections

Business development and project management, especially in the Department of Defense sector. He is currently working with development of advanced decision support and training systems based based on semantic web technologies.

Co-founder of SimWright Inc., an engineering development firm headquartered in Florida, founded to develop software and hardware applications in support of military training and mission planning. As President of the firm, he led the company to introduce these same technologies for use by other federal agencies as well as state and local governments. He supervised the growth of company into a 25 person operation. Later as Vice-President for Programs, he supervised the development of technical programs related to decision support applications that utilize geospatial databases and satellite/aerial imagery. He performed strategic planning to match appropriate technologies and applications to potential client needs. He captured $5.5M in federal research funding through the Small Business Innovative Research program. As a research principal, he managed small to medium size teams in the execution of system development and implementation including the following projects:
1) FHWA project to develop a prototype automated driveway access management system for decision support information for permit engineers responsible for the state highway system; 2) Federal Transit Administration project to develop a system for a regional geospatial database and applications for regional transportation planning; 3) FHWA project to develop a prototype concept for a decision-aiding tool capable of supporting environmental hazard analysis and land acquisition for transportation projects; 4) Transportation Research Board project to compare traditional photogrammetric assessment of airport obstruction clearance with the use of LIDAR; 5) USAF project to develop tools for rapidly creating 3D visual databases for military test and training; 6) USAF project to develop means for automatic extraction and attribution of cultural features for military visual terrain databases using a broad range of input geospatial data sources.

Co-founder of SimWright Inc., an engineering development firm headquartered in Florida, founded to develop software and hardware applications in support of military training and mission planning. As President of the firm, he led the company to introduce these same technologies for use by other federal agencies as well as state and local governments. He supervised the growth of company into a 25 person operation. Later as Vice-President for Programs, he supervised the development of technical programs related to decision support applications that utilize geospatial databases and satellite/aerial imagery. He performed strategic planning to match appropriate technologies and applications to potential client needs. He captured $5.5M in federal research funding through the Small Business Innovative Research program. As a research principal, he managed small to medium size teams in the execution of system development and implementation including the following projects:
1) FHWA project to develop a prototype automated driveway access management system for decision support information for permit engineers responsible for the state highway system; 2) Federal Transit Administration project to develop a system for a regional geospatial database and applications for regional transportation planning; 3) FHWA project to develop a prototype concept for a decision-aiding tool capable of supporting environmental hazard analysis and land acquisition for transportation projects; 4) Transportation Research Board project to compare traditional photogrammetric assessment of airport obstruction clearance with the use of LIDAR; 5) USAF project to develop tools for rapidly creating 3D visual databases for military test and training; 6) USAF project to develop means for automatic extraction and attribution of cultural features for military visual terrain databases using a broad range of input geospatial data sources.

From October 1979 to November 1985 Mr. Hearne served as an acquistion program manager on a variety of US Air Force projects. From October 1979 to October 1980 Mr. Hearne was a Test Program Planner responsible for planning and executing all range logistics for weapons test projects that came to Eglin AFB. In 1980 Mr. Hearne was reassigned as an acquisition program manager in the Air Combat Training Range Directorate where he managed air combat training range installations throughout the world. This position included program planning, budgeting, contract negotiations, and matrix team management. He was responsible for cost, schedule and performance baselines for a number of multi-million dollar projects including:
1) Program manager for production of aircraft instrumentation pods used on all USAF and USN aircraft on air combat training ranges.
2) Program manager for major upgrades to the Red Flag Training range at Nellis Air Force Based Nevada
3) Program manager for air combat training range installation in the Salt Lake training range near Ogden Utah.
Successfully defended USAF against a $5M claim by a major DOD contractor against the government and settled with no additional financial commitment from the government.
Responsibilties included General Officer and Senior Executive Service briefings on project status, liaison with Congressional staffers and military liaison personnel.
During this time Mr. Hearne’s service was recognized with Quality Step Increases, Sustained Superior Performance Awards, and early promotions.