Wayne Francis

Wayne Francis is a highly experienced systems engineer, and on loan to us as Director of Engineering from NVision Solutions Inc. While Principal Systems Engineer at SAIC from 2009-2013, Wayne was the systems engineering lead for the successful capture of the $60M DARPA Phase 2 Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) and established the cross-disciplinary systems engineering processes for the development of the first SubHunter vessel. Under separate DARPA initiatives, Wayne has coordinated the engineering teams responsible for development and deployment of long mission, unattended, ocean-floor, sensing systems.

From 2000-2009, Wayne established the electronics production capability at Planning Systems, Inc, Long Beach, MS engineering facility, transitioning to a AS9100-certified development and fabrication process group in 2008 as a part of QinetiQ North America’s Technology Solutions Group. Under the Precision Air Delivery System (PADS) program, Wayne directed production of $40M over three distinct electronic assemblies transitioned through Department of Defense (DOD) acquisition milestone C. Recently, Wayne developed the test and measurement regimes for both the airborne and unattended ground systems of the QinetiQ and LogLinear Group Wind Profiling Portable Radar (WiPPR).