Tucker Strausbaugh
Computer engineer working on simulation for test & training at NAVAIR
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Updated September 6, 2026
Objective
A position where I can use my expertise to influence simulation efforts in order to provide the utmost test and training benefit to the warfighter
Experience
July 2015 to Present
Chief Engineer: Joint Simulation Environment
1 Year, ongoing- Acted as a JSE primary Technical POC for 4th, 5th, & 6th generation program offices, Space Force, and numerous vendors, helping architect their designs for integrating into GRID and JSE
- Deconflicted priorities and effectively combined resources from multiple JSE stakeholders to better meet warfighter needs for more complex test and training scenarios
Technical Lead, Product Owner: Joint Simulation Environment - GRID
6 Years
Award
Received Meritorious Civilian Service Award from the Department of the Navy
- Led, organized, and provided technical guidance to a growing team of 16 developers, as well as multiple teams from the Air Force and industry to all contribute to the product
- Acted as a JSE primary Technical POC for 4th, 5th, & 6th generation program offices, Space Force, and numerous vendors, helping architect their designs for integrating into GRID and JSE
- Deconflicted priorities and effectively combined resources from multiple JSE stakeholders to better meet warfighter needs for more complex test and training scenarios
- Led team through V&V process and Runs for Score for F-35 IOT&E, and integration of other platforms into JSE including the next generation of systems and capabilities
- Planned and led the initial deployment of the GRID Weather service into JSE, with a roadmap for transitioning additional capabilities for its effects to RF, IR, and datalink modeling
- Represented GRID, Navy JSE, and JSE’s interests at the JSE Users Group, joint working groups and various platform customers, regularly presented status and future capabilities to the warfighter
- Collaborated with an industry partner to define the Government Simulation Interface, then transferred its maintenance to a civilian team, greatly reducing the cost over time
- Led design of new GRID services, including satellite communications, as well as redesigns of existing services to improve performance and raise fidelity in support of future capabilities
- Personally developed various tools, a message logger, a CLI to interact with live messages and services, a Python wrapper, and data import to industry standard data analysis tools
- Developed a system for reliably deploying the product and an introductory package for new users
Software Developer: Joint Simulation Environment (JSE) - GRID
2 Years- Designed and implemented a bidirectional GRID message to DIS PDU gateway, currently under integration with a partner nation’s CAFDMO DIS based simulation to enable JSE participation
- Defined initial version of all GRID message definitions as a new protocol enabling higher fidelity M&S than those before, both truth Pub/Sub style data, and those for enabling GRID services
- Assisted integration of DARPA Collaborative Operations in Denied Environment (CODE) autonomy software with NGTS to enable exploratory simulations
Software Developer: UCLASS / MQ-25 Software Integration Lab
2 Years- Wrote application to command autonomous aircraft launch on the Common Control Station with no ICD provided