Contractor James Theimer, Ph.D.
Dr. James Theimer, Contractor, is a Research and Scientific Test and Analysis Techniques Expert employed by Huntington Ingalls Industries Technical Solutions and working to support the Homeland Security Center of Best Practices. He is currently working to develop a set of best practice documents to guide test and evaluation for homeland security programs where emerging threats need to be considered.
Dr. Theimer worked for Air Force Research Laboratory and predecessor organizations for more than 35 years. He worked on modeling and simulation of sensors systems and supporting devices. His doctoral research was on modeling pulse formation in fiber lasers. He worked with a semiconductor reliability team as a reliability statistician and led a team with studied statistical validation of models of automatic sensor exploitation systems. This team also worked with government agencies to evaluate these systems.
Dr. Theimer has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and MS in Applied Statistics from Wright State University, and MS in Atmospheric Science from SUNY Albany and a BS in Physics from University of Rochester.