….have joined AUVSI‘s Board of Directors. McDuffee, commercial business development executive with Insitu, Inc., will sit on the board through 2012. Lt. Gen Lynch will sit on the board until 2014.
Paul McDuffee joined Insitu in 2006 after a 30-year career in higher education working with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. McDuffee was responsible for all flight training operations at Embry-Riddle as Flight Department chair, tenured professor, and ultimately vice president of Aviation Training. McDuffee was recruited by Insitu to design and implement its first formal UAS training program for the ScanEagle and has since taken over the role of principal interface with the Federal Aviation Administration and others interested in carving a path toward commercial viability of unmanned aircraft systems.
Lt. Gen. Rick Lynch graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1977 and was commissioned as a Regular Army engineer officer. He assumed command of the Marne Division and Fort Stewart/Hunter Army Airfield on 13 June, 2006. The Division Headquarters and subordinate brigade combat teams deployed to Iraq in early 2007, where he assumed command of the Multi-National Division Center in Baghdad, Iraq, on 1 April, 2007. Upon his return from Iraq, Lynch commanded III Corps and Fort Hood, from July 2008 to September 2009. Lynch commanded the U.S. Army’s Installation Management Command and was the assistant chief of staff for installation management (ACSIM) from November 2009 to November 2010. He retired from active duty on 1 Jan., 2012.
The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) is the world’s largest non-profit organization devoted exclusively to advancing the unmanned systems and robotics community. AUVSI’s 7,000 members worldwide come from government organizations, industry and academia. AUVSI is committed to fostering, developing, and promoting unmanned systems and robotic technologies.
