Mr. Benjamin J. Noble is the Architectures and Systems Engineering (ASE) Group Chief Engineer for the Integrating Program Executive Officer (IPEO) for Mission Systems (MS) in the Fighters and Advanced Aircraft Directorate, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC/WA), Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC), Wright Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB), OH. He leads multiple integrated product teams of systems engineers, program managers, logistics, security, finance, and contracting personnel in acquisition of next generation avionics and mission systems technologies across a multi-billion-dollar portfolio of advanced aircraft, open architectures, standards, and interfaces. He is also responsible for facilitating and coordinating technology transition with science and technology institutions, such as Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), and Office of Naval Research (ONR).
Mr. Noble entered the Air Force as a Civilian Federal Employee in August 2008 after graduating from University of Cincinnati, and since then has held a variety of systems engineering positions related to acquisition of Air Force weapon systems, including F-22, B-21, and the Next Generation Air Dominance Family of Systems (FoS) including the F-47 and Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA).
Mr. Noble has technical expertise in many categories of Avionics/Mission Systems such as Open Systems Architecture, Low Observable Radio Frequency (RF) Antenna Design, Electro Optical / InfraRed (EO/IR) Sensors, Civil and Military Communications, RADAR, Electronic Warfare, Countermeasures, and Mission Software including Mission Autonomy, Correlation and Fusion, and Human Machine Interface (HMI) / Pilot Vehicle Interface (PVI).
Throughout his career, Mr. Noble has led many IPTs in the creation, establishment, modernization, and sustainment of multiple ACAT I, II, and III sized programs. He served on multiple Capability Development Document (CDD) High Performance Teams to establish requirements for the F-22, and NGAD FoS (F-47 and CCA) programs. He has developed and executed joint service multi-domain Highly Contested Environment (HCE) networking roadmaps in collaboration with Air Combat Command (ACC), Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), United States Navy (USN), DARPA, Department of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office (DAF RCO), and AFLCMC Program Executive Officers for Fighters, Bombers, Mobility, and Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence and Networks (C3I&N). He has created material, facilitated data exchange, briefed acquisition strategies to the highest levels of USAF leadership including SECDEF, OSD, SAF, HAF, and Congressional Staffers. His notable career achievements include pioneering development, and adoption of the novel Agile Mission Suite Government Reference Architecture (AMS GRA) and the official Next Generation Directional Line of Sight (DLOS) Advanced Tactical Data Link (ATDL), MBeam, both of which have been widely adopted by the Joint Enterprise and are now on track for international use. He also led the technical evaluation to success for the DAF’s first unprotested Source Selection of a major fighter weapon system, the F-47.
EDUCATION
2008 Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering with focus in Photonics, University of Cincinnati. Cincinnati, OH.
2010 Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering with focus in Wireless Communications, Wright State University. Fairborn, OH.
2017 Graduate of Air University. Air Command and Staff College (ACSC). Maxwell AFB, AL.
ASSIGNMENTS or CAREER CHRONOLOGY
MAJOR AWARDS AND DECORATIONS
CY 2015 SECAF and SECDEF Large Group Honor (B-21)
CY 2018 AFMC Special Programs Civilian of the Year Award
CY 2021 Secretary of the Air Force Special Programs Individual Honor (NGAD)
CY 2024 Frederick T. Rall Jr. Career Achievement Award Finalist