Paul C. Hershey is with Raytheon IIS, Dulles, Virginia, where he is a Principal Engineering Fellow focusing on data analytics, autonomous systems, cloud computing, and cyber security. He received a Ph.D. and M.S., both in electrical engineering, from the University of Maryland, College Park, and an A.B. in mathematics from the College of William and Mary.  He has published 34 patents (issued) with 5 additional patents filed and pending, and over 50 peer-reviewed technical articles.  Previously, he was an adjunct professor at George Washington University where he also served on the Curriculum Advisory Board.  He is an active IEEE Senior Member and now serves on technical program committees for the IEEE International Systems Conference (also on the conference steering committee) and the IEEE International System of Systems Engineering Conference (also an industrial liaison). He is also a Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Systems Council in the area of data analytics.