Prof. Guy Thomas 

President at C-SIGMA Consulting &

The Creator of Satellite AIS (S-AIS)

 

Guy Thomas has been involved in maritime surveillance from operator to lead systems test engineer to inventor and developer.  He conceived, secured funding for, and helped design space-based AIS.  He subsequently developed the Collaboration in Space for International Global Maritime Awareness (C-SIGMA) concept to fully exploit this new capability which led him to write the maritime portion of the 2010 National Space Policy as part of an interdepartmental White House team. He is retired from the US Navy where he served in combat on ships, submarines, and aircraft, lead the operational test of the Navy's EP-3E in the Pacific, and the acceptance test of the USAF’s RC-135W, Rivet Joint III, before becoming one of the Navy’s first designated sub-specialists in space operations. Guy wrote the Mission Needs Statement for the Tactical Information Broadcast System (TIBS), and, 15 years later, the master plan for the development of its follow-on, the Integrated Broadcast System (IBS).  He has participated in numerous war games and at sea experiments, leading or co-leading several.  His 2001 paper on why and how to build a Maritime Traffic Tracking System, published in the Naval War College Review in 2003, became the conceptual backbone of the national effort to build a National Maritime Domain Awareness system. He took early retirement from Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Lab to become the Science & Technology Advisor to that national effort. He is a distinguished graduate of the Naval War College, holds an MBA in Computer Information Systems with high honors from Bryant University and studies Systems Engineering at Johns Hopkins Whiting Graduate School.