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Ken Carey is a Principal Systems Engineer for the Noblis Center for Science and Technology. He serves as a technical lead for three Line Offices of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). He works with federal and state clients to identify, document, validate and satisfy requirements for the next generation of environmental satellites and is supporting efforts to identify requirements for possible exploitation by commercial providers; develops policy and operational implementation processes for the National Weather Service; provides programmatic support for a Congressional-directed NOAA-EPA National Air Quality Forecast Capability; and is providing business planning, program management and leading technical outreach for the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, a NOAA, NASA and Department of Defense partnership. Ken recently helped plan, organize, and coordinate a very successful National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) and DoD-sponsored symposia celebrating "50 Years of Operational Numerical Weather Prediction", and a highly successful Mid-Atlantic Winter Storms Conference.

Prior to his work at Noblis, Ken retired from the United States Air Force after serving nearly 21 years. Ken served as an operational analyst, developing analyses of force structure projections and presented optimum force structure allocations to senior Department of Defense leaders and serving as the Contracting Officer Technical Representative for a $10M defense modeling and simulation contract. He also commanded a weather organization supporting front-line combat units stationed in Europe in the Gulf War, and supported warfighters in the Army on the Korean peninsula. Ken directed 52-person training and software applications sections while a part of the Air Force Weather Agency. Ken has earned M.S. degrees in Technology Management from George Mason University (Beta Gamma Sigma International Honor Society), and Meteorology and Minor in Oceanography from North Carolina State University (Dean's List), completed a Basic Meteorology Certificate from Texas A&M University (Chi Epsilon Pi Honor Society), and graduated with a B.S. in Physical Sciences from the University of Maryland. He is also currently an adjunct faculty member for Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), chairs the AMS Board for Private Sector Meteorologists and National Weather Association's Remote Sensing Committee, and is a member of the Washington Academy of Sciences.

E-mail: Kenneth.Carey@noaa.gov