Mr. Charles Middleton, Ctr.
Charlie Middleton currently leads the Advancements in Test and Evaluation (T&E) of Autonomous Systems for the OSD STAT Center of Excellence. His responsibilities include researching autonomous system T&E methods and tools; collaborating with Department of Defense program and project offices developing autonomous systems; leading a monthly working group of autonomy testers, staffers, and researchers; and authoring a handbook, reports, and papers related to T&E of autonomous systems. Previously, Mr. Middleton led development of a live-fire T&E risk-based framework for survivability and lethality evaluation for the office of the Director, Operational T&E; led a multi-domain modeling and simulation team supporting Air Force Research Labs future space efforts; and developed a Bayesian reliability analysis toolset for the National Air and Space Intelligence Center. While an active-duty Air Force officer, he was Director of the Joint Advanced Tactical Missile test force, a developmental test pilot leading several aircraft and weapons T&E programs and projects, an operational test pilot for the air-to-ground weapons system evaluation program, and piloted 291 combat hours in the F-16 aircraft, employing precision munitions in Close Air Support, Time-Sensitive Targeting, and Suppression of Enemy Air Defense missions. Mr. Middleton is a distinguished graduate of the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School, and holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in operations research and operations analysis from Princeton University and the Air Force Institute of Technology.