Erik P. Blasch, Ph.D./MBA, is a program officer with the Air Force Research Laboratory. He received his B.S. in Mech. Eng. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Ph.D. in Electrical Eng. from Wright State University in addition to numerous Master’s Degrees in Mech. Eng., Ind. Eng., Elect. Eng., Medicine, Military Studies, and Economics. Additionally, his assignments include Colonel (ret) in the USAF reserves, adjunct associate professor, and president of professional societies. His areas of research include information-fusion performance evaluation, image fusion, avionics, and human-machine integration; compiling over 120 journal papers, 900 publications, 42 patents, and 8 books. He is a Fellow of AIAA, IEEE, MSS, and SPIE.