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Lt Mary Albrecht is a Deployable Systems Engineer. She works at the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate, located at Kirtland Air Force Base. Within the directorate, she is part of the Spacecraft Component Technology Branch on the Thermal Thrust Team. Within this position, Lt Albrecht is responsible for overseeing multiple, novel spacecraft thermal control technology projects and contracts that will help create the future of satellite thermal control. These technologies include oscillating heat pipes, thermal interface materials, and improvements to spacecraft pumped fluid loops. Lt Albrecht attended Colorado School of Mines for her undergraduate degree and was commissioned as a distinguished graduate into the Air Force in 2019 through the ROTC program at the University of Colorado. She started her first assignment in November of 2019, and has served just over two years as an active duty officer. In February, 2021, Lt Albrecht transferred to the United States Space Force as one of the first officers in the new branch. Her duties continue to focus on spacecraft thermal control technologies, but she is excited for future assignments dedicated to United States Space Defense in the Space Force.

I graduated from Virginia Military Institute (VMI) with a BS in Mathematics in 1993. I served in the US Air Force on active duty from 1993 through 2005 and as an Air Force Reservist from 2005 through 2013. I also have 10 years of experience as a defense contractor and am currently a government civilian supporting AFRL/RDMW. I've been a government civilian for approximately six years (three of those years with RDMW). For most of my career I have been an operations research analyst with extensive experience in non-parametric statistics, electronic warfare, and navigation warfare.

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Jeffery W. Allen is currently employed as a Senior Research Electronics Engineer at the Munitions Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Dr. Allen’s primary area of interest is electromagnetic wave matter interaction and research in novel sensing paradigms. His current projects include research of first principle models and fabrication techniques applied to engineered electromagnetic structures and electronic materials to create multifunctional materials and devices for systems in a wide area of applications. He is also interested in research areas of metamaterials, optimized RF apertures, quantum mechanics, subwavelength photonics and nonlinear optics. Dr. Allen has authored over 100 technical papers and also serves as reviewer for peer-reviewed journals such as Optical Engineering, Optics Express, IEEE and Applied Physics Letters. He is affiliated with the Electrical Engineering honor society, Eta Kappa Nu and the Engineering honor society, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi and IEEE Senior Member.

Dr. Allen is currently employed as a Senior Electronics Engineer in the Fuzes branch in the Munitions Directorate, researching resonant sensing platforms for EO/IR technologies and components that can find applications in detection and sensing. Her primary areas of technology interest include nonlinear optical, photonic, and plasmonic physics concepts through the exploitation of light-matter interactions to provide cutting-edge technology to the warfighter. Dr. Allen’s research areas also include investigation of nonlinear optical phenomena and plasmonics concepts primarily at infrared wavelengths. Her current projects include modeling, simulation and fabrication of resonant micro- and nano-structures for gain and selectivity enhancement. Dr. Allen is also involved in the characterization of fabricated devices that test their performance. Dr. Allen has authored over 30 technical papers and also serves as reviewer for peer-reviewed journals such as Optical Engineering, Optics Express and Applied Physics Letters. She is also affiliated with the Electrical Engineering honor society, Eta Kappa Nu and the Engineering honor society, Tau Beta Pi.