Emory Winters serves as Chief Engineer for the Apache Development and Modernization Product Office and concurrently acts as Assistant Product Manager for the V6.5 program. He has led government requirements development for the Apache’s first open system interface, along with fleet-wide software baseline consolidation and the transition of key test infrastructure into government ownership. His work focuses on what it takes to apply open systems principles to a fielded legacy platform: data rights, test capability, and contract structure.