Time: 9:25 AM – 10:15
Location: Room 4
Speaker:
Mike Skaff
Lockheed Martin
Abstract:
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), Large Language Models (LLM), and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) are revolutionizing our daily lives. This same technology is primed to migrate into the cockpit. Fasten your seatbelts and put your thinking caps on. Let’s look at what was science fiction 5 years ago, but science fact today!
Speaker Bio:
Mike serves as a senior fellow of Human Systems Engineering team. This team is composed of former and current military aviators, crew station designers, and human factors scientists. The team is responsible for the design, development, test, and support of advanced cockpits and ground control stations. In this role he spends considerable time in high fidelity simulators designing, developing, and testing advanced warfighter technologies and employment concepts.
Mike joined Lockheed Martin in 1989. He hired into the F-16 Pilot Vehicle Interface (PVI) team directly from the US Air Force (USAF). Mike has been with the company for 35 years. He is the mastermind behind the F-35 PVI. His designs are also in the F-16, F-22, and many classified research and development programs.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: Mike enlisted into the USAF in 1976 as a computer repair technician. He received an appointment to the USAF Academy and graduated with a degree in electrical engineering in 1982. Mike is a high time F-16 instructor pilot. He holds the grade of lieutenant colonel in a local Civil Air Patrol squadron where he mentors cadets in aerospace education and conducts glider orientation flights. Mike is married to his wife Nancy of 40 years. They have one son, daughter in law, and grandson.