Michael J. Vinarcik is a Chief Digital Engineer in SAIC’s Engineering Innovation Factory, an adjunct professor at the University of Detroit Mercy, and a Visiting Professor at CIDESI (Mexico). He has thirty years of automotive and defense engineering experience. He received a BS (Metallurgical Engineering) from the Ohio State University, an MBA from the University of Michigan, and an MS (Product Development) from the University of Detroit Mercy. Michael has presented at National Defense Industrial Association, International Council on Systems Engineering, and American Society for Engineering Education regional and international conferences.

Matthew Hause is a principal at SSI, the INCOSE representative of the UAF group, and a member of the OMG SysML specification team. He has been developing multi-national complex systems for over 40 years as a systems and software engineer. He started out working in the power systems industry then transitioned to command and control systems, process control, communications, SCADA, distributed control, Military systems, and many other areas of technical and real-time systems. He has been a regular presenter at INCOSE, the IEEE, BCS, the IET, the OMG, AIAA, DoD Enterprise Architecture, Embedded Systems Conference and many other conferences.

Tim Sherburne is a research associate within the Virginia Tech National Security Institute. He was previously a member of the systems engineering staff at the University of Virginia supporting Mission Aware research through rapid prototyping of cyber resilient solutions and model-based systems engineering (MBSE) specifications. Prior to joining the University of Virginia, he worked at Motorola Solutions in various Software Development and Systems Engineering roles defining and building mission critical public safety communications systems. Tim holds a M.S. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a B.S. in electrical engineering from Marquette University.