Mr. Padilla is Army Programs lead for CRL Technologies, Inc. currently serving as CPE Aviation MOSA lead and on the Maneuver Air Division Architecture team. He is an expert on several Army, Navy, Air Force and international open architecture initiatives with extensive experience in identifying areas of overlap, synergy and recommendations for resolving incompatibility between architecture approaches. He was one of the principal authors of a Comprehensive Architecture Strategy implementing a tiered architecture approach to define enforceable architectural requirements, mechanisms and metrics to achieve an organization’s technical and business objectives. This was utilized by the Architecture Collaboration Working Group (ACWG) in development of the Future Vertical Lift Architecture Framework (FAF) and CPE Aviation Enterprise Architecture. Mr. Padilla was part of the initial cadre for the FACE initiative, principal author of the FACE Technical Standard, founding participant of the FACE Consortium and lead of several subcommittees and current Chair of the Enterprise Standing Committee. He also participated in the development of the Hardware Open Systems Technologies (HOST) standard. He has supported multiple Army and Navy acquisition projects and Army S&T projects implementing open architecture principles.
After graduating from Texas A&M University, Mr. Padilla spent twenty years in strategic development, operational and tactical planning, mission execution and evaluation as a Naval Aviator flying the F-14 and F/A-18 before joining CRL Technologies, Inc.