Lt. Col. Reid Vander Schaaf (US Army), Program Manager Enhanced C2BMC, visited Purdue on 1 May 2012. He came to meet with students and faculty involved on a project funded by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA).

Dr. Dan DeLaurentis and his team are working with the MDA to explore future Ballistic Missile Defense Architectures. DeLaurentis is leading the project and working with Dr. Saurabh Bagchi, an associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The research is founded upon the "system of systems" activities taking place in the SoS Laboratory in AAE and deals with many facets that must mesh together in complex systems.

Lt. Col. Vander Schaaf also presented Certificates of Appreciation from the MDA to the team in recognition of their work to date as well as on the high quality briefing they gave to the director of the MDA Lt. Gen. O'Reilly when he visited Purdue in February.  While on campus in February, Lt. Gen. O’Reilly also presented the 2012 William E. Boeing Distinguished Lecture.

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Dr. Saurabh Bagchi (ECE), Dr. Dan DeLaurentis, Dr. Tom Shih, Jevin Sweval, Dr. Stephen Heister, LTC Reid Vander Schaaf (MDA), Paul Wood, Don Fry, Muharrem Mane, Kevin Bonnane, Mack Pasqual, David Braun (ITaP), Kris Ezra, Ali Khalid, Ron Chow, Jacob Haderlie