Dr. Guerci has over 30 years of experience in advanced technology research and development in government, industrial, and academic settings. His government service included a 7-year term with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in which he held the positions of Program Manager, Deputy Office Director, and finally Director of the Special Projects Office (SPO) where he was responsible for a tech portfolio in excess of $500M USD annually. In these capacities, Dr. Guerci was responsible for the inception, research, development, execution, and ultimately transition of next generation multidisciplinary technologies. His advanced radar and electronic warfare (EW) solutions developed while at DARPA are, for example, deployed in the F-22, F-35 and other advanced radars. He also created the KASSPER project, the forerunner of cognitive radar and EW while at DARPA. He is currently President and CEO of Information Systems Laboratories, Inc. (www.islinc.com ).
Dr. Guerci is an internationally recognized leader in the R&D and transition of next generation sensor and cognitive systems. In addition to authoring over 130 peer reviewed articles (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3CFHqvMAAAAJ&hl=en ), he is the author of several popular books including Space-Time Adaptive Processing for Radar (Artech House, 2003, 2^nd Ed. 2014), and Cognitive Radar: The Knowledge-Aided Fully Adaptive Approach, (Artech House, 2010, first book on this topic, 2^nd edition in preparation). Dr. Guerci is the recipient of the Warren D. White Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for “Excellence in Radar Adaptive Processing and Waveform Diversity” and is a Fellow of the IEEE for “Contributions to Advanced Radar Theory and its Embodiment in Real-World Systems”. He was the General Chair for the 2015 IEEE International Radar Conference (largest surplus in the history of the conference series) and been selected to serve as the Radar/EW Series Editor for Artech House publishers. Most recently, he is the recipient of the IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal (2020) for “For contributions to advanced, fully adaptive radar systems and real-time knowledge-aided, and cognitive radar processing architectures”.
A graduate of NYU Polytechnic University (now Tanden School of Engineering) with a Ph.D.E.E, Dr. Guerci has held adjunct professorships in engineering and applied mathematics at The City University of New York, NYU Polytechnic University, The Cooper Union for Advancement of Art and Science, and Virginia Tech. Additionally, he has held senior engineer and scientist positions in industry and was Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for SAIC’s $2B+/year Research, Development, Test & Evaluation (RDT&E) Group. He is also currently a member of several industrial, academic, and government advisory boards.

C. Russell H. Shearer is ISL’s Chief Operating Officer, leading the Corporation’s day-to-day operations and development of new product lines. He was previously ISL’s Senior Vice President & General Counsel, overseeing the Company’s global legal activities, and, before that Vice President for Nuclear Reactor Services, with P&L responsibility for the Company’s nuclear reactor licensing and construction-management operations.

Shearer was a senior presidential appointee at the Department of Energy, where he was the chief Environment, Safety, Health & Quality officer for the nuclear weapons, national laboratory, energy, and R&D complex, guiding corporate policy, compliance, performance assessment, and internal-investigation. Prior to that he was a senior appointee at the Department of the Army serving as the senior-most line manager of the $1.3B (annual) program that destroyed the Nation’s stockpile of chemical weapons, and as a senior manager in approximately $5.8B of Army housing and infrastructure recapitalization. Shearer practiced law with two AmLaw 100 / U.S. NEWS Best Law Firms; was environmental counsel to a nuclear-weapons-production facility; and served as a judicial law clerk to the Delaware Supreme Court and an Article I Federal appellate court.
Shearer is widely published in professional journals with two of his publications cited as annotations to the United States Code; is the co-author or contributor to many technical reports and studies; and has testified before an independent federal regulatory board. He was a member of the Department of Energy’s Operating Experience Council and the President’s Council on Modernizing the National Environmental Policy Act. Shearer’s awards include the Army Staff Badge, several Department of Energy citations, and the Department of Defense Citation for Employer Support of the Guard & Reserve. He is listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in American Law, and serves on the board of a New Orleans charitable and civic organization.
Shearer earned his legum magister degree in energy and environmental law from Tulane University School of Law, his juris doctor degree from Widener University School of Law, his bachelor of arts degree from Washington and Lee University. He has a certificate in nuclear-weapons design from Sandia National Laboratory and was a National Security Decision-Making Fellow in asymmetrical warfare at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

Mr. Bergin has been with ISL for 22 years. He is currently the general manager of ISL’s Research, Development, and Engineering Solutions (RDES) division. He has over 20 years experience in RF systems engineering, signal processing, and project management. Mr. Bergin is an active researcher in advanced radar and sensor signal processing and has made contributions in the areas of knowledge-aided signal processing, site-specific RF modeling and simulation, and MIMO radar. He was one of the first researchers to demonstrate useful MIMO radar performance on a fielded production X band radar. Mr. Bergin has been principal investigator on a number of past and on-going DARPA, NAVAIR, and AFRL-sponsored R&D programs including the DARPA KASSPER and FOPEN-GXP programs. His research has lead to numerous open literature and conference publications and he is the co-author of the recent book titled “MIMO Radar: Theory and Application” published by Artech House, March 2018.

Mr. Williams has a Bachelor and Master of Science in Nuclear Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University.  He has approximately 18 years of technical and leadership experience in the nuclear industry with specific focus in nuclear safety analysis, reactor plant design, radiation dose analysis, and dry fuel storage. He joins ISL’s leadership team with a background in thermal-hydraulic, neutronic, and radiological analysis.  Mr. Williams is a fundamental contributor to methods development, code validation and verification, licensing, design of advanced reactors, design and procurement of dry fuel storage components, and Phenomena Identification and Ranking Table (PIRT) panels.  Since joining ISL in January 2015, he supported the design of advanced and small modular reactors, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), and various domestic and international clients as a nuclear engineer. Mr. Williams was promoted to the Energy & Space Division Manager in June 2018.

Robin Felice is Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Controller and Treasurer for ISL.   She has a BBA degree in Accounting and a minor in Computer Science from the University of San Diego and is a Certified Public Accountant.   Ms. Felice has been with ISL for twelve years and is responsible for the administrative and financial management operations of the company, which include the financial reporting, budgeting, cash management, development of financial and operational strategies, metrics tied to that strategy, and the ongoing development and monitoring of control systems designed to preserve the company assets.Prior to working for ISL, Ms. Felice has 17 years of accounting and financial management experience with companies dealing with advanced technologies and manufacturing that are involved with both government and commercial contracts.   Her expertise lies with government accounting and she has extensive experience with applicable government rules and regulations, including but not limited to DFARS, FAR, CAS, NRC, etc.  Her career started with the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA), where she audited various Defense contractors in the San Diego county.  She earned an Award of Merit issued by the Department of Navy for an outstanding effort in assisting the Navy in the negotiations of an equitable adjustment and also received a Superior Accomplishment Award for assisting the Department of Justice Trial Attorney in the development of litigation strategies, for which her audit was relied upon significantly in the issuance of the Final Decision.  Ms. Felice then moved into private industry and went to work for General Atomics in accounting, then subsequently moved into one of their divisions as a financial analyst, and then returned back to Corporate and started their Internal Compliance department.  Ms. Felice then went to work for Remec Aerospace, where she gained extensive experience in the Defense manufacturing industry and was involved in a several hundred multi million dollar proposal win, along with being responsible for the company’s financial management and audits.  Her background with technology, research and development, engineering services, and manufacturing led her to ISL, of which her knowledge serves as a valuable asset.Ms. Felice enjoys outdoor sports in San Diego, biking, hiking, sking, and tennis. She loves to attend events at the San Diego arts and historical museums.

Fred Bernthal was President of Universities Research Association (URA) for 17 years until 2011, and continues to serve there as Senior Advisor to the URA Board of Trustees. A not-for-profit consortium of 88 research universities, URA engages in the planning, construction, and operation of large research facilities.  Among its activities, URA for 40 years has been contractor to the U.S. Department of Energy for management and operation of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory west of Chicago.
Prior to URA, Dr. Bernthal served four years as Deputy Director of the National Science Foundation, where he was also for one year Acting Director.  From 1988-1990, he was Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans, Environment and Science.  He led the U.S. delegation to the first meeting of parties to the Montreal Protocol on Stratospheric Ozone, and chaired the 50-nation Response Strategies Working Group of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. From 1983-88 he was a Member of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. In the wake of the Chernobyl disaster, in 1987 he led a U.S. interagency delegation to the Soviet Union, where he negotiated and signed the first US-USSR nuclear safety protocol.
From 1970-80, Dr. Bernthal was a professor of chemistry and physics at Michigan State University.  On being named a Congressional Science Fellow in 1978, he took a two-year leave of absence from MSU to join the staff of U.S. Senator Howard Baker, on whose staff he continued to serve until 1983.
Fred Bernthal received a B.S. degree in chemistry from Valparaiso University in 1964, and a Ph.D. in nuclear chemistry in 1969 from the University of California at Berkeley. He did advanced study at Yale University in 1969-70, and at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, where he was a NATO Senior Scientist Fellow in 1977.
Dr. Bernthal has served since 2006 as a director of Information Systems Laboratories Inc.  He also was for 18 years a director of PPL Corporation until, in 2015, he became a director of the newly-formed Talen Energy Corporation.  He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Member of the Cosmos Club of Washington.

William C. Ostendorff is the Class of 1960 Distinguished Visiting Professor in National Security at the U.S. Naval Academy, teaching Nuclear Weapons Policy, Congress and National Security, Grand Strategy, and Law and National Security. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on three occasions to serve in senior administration posts in both Republican and Democratic administrations, first as the Principal Deputy Administrator for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) in the Bush Administration (2007-2009) and twice more as a Commissioner at the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (2010-2016) in the Obama Administration.  From 2003 to 2007, Mr. Ostendorff was a member of the staff of the House Armed Services Committee. There, he served as counsel and staff director for the Strategic Forces Subcommittee with oversight responsibilities for the Department of Energy’s Atomic Energy Defense Activities as well as the Department of Defense’s space, missile defense and intelligence programs.  Mr. Ostendorff was a United States Navy officer from 1976 until he retired in 2002 with the rank of Captain, having served on six submarines and commanded a nuclear attack submarine and a nuclear attack submarine squadron.  Mr. Ostendorff earned a B.S. in systems engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy and law degrees from the University of Texas and Georgetown University.  He is a member of the State Bar of Texas.  He currently serves on the Advisory Council for the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations and on a National Academy of Sciences Committee on Plutonium Disposition. He received the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award of the US Nuclear Infrastructure Council.