Leidos
Donald L. Reed is currently employed by Leidos, Navigation, Systems and Knowledge Engineering Division, as Director of Navigation and Communications Research responsible for research, development, test and evaluation and exploitation of Navigation and Communications Concepts. Mr. Reed is responsible for a team of engineers and programmers developing communications systems, Global Navigation Signal Simulators, GPS signal/satellite verification assets and next generation GPS receivers. For the last 4 year he has been supporting the Navy and GPS Joint Program Office's GPS Modernization programs, as well as the development of Direct Digital Synthesizers and Digital Receivers utilizing FPGA technologies. Mr. Reed received his BS in Computer Engineering from Wright State University in 1985.
Before joining, Leidos he was employed by CSC as a Senior Engineer, where he ran an Air Force communications, navigation, and identifications research laboratory. At CSC he was instrumental in the development of the GPS Antenna WaveFront Simulator (AWFS) and Avionics Wind Tunnel at Wright-Patterson AFB.