Jean Charles Domercant, Ph.D.

Jean Charles Domercant

Naval Systems Engineering and Integration
Research Engineer II
Weber Building, Rm 120B
(404) 894 - 3214

Education

• Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2000
• Master of Engineering Management, Old Dominion University, May 2006
• Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, May 2008
• Doctor of Philosophy with a Major in Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, December 2011

Research

Partnership for Research On Naval Technologies and Operations (PRONTO) [February 2012 - Present]
Develop early-stage ship design methods that directly incorporate mission effectiveness into the decision process.

Visual C2 Capability Analysis and Tradeoff Suite (VCATS) Phase III [February 2012 - Present]
Develop a capabilities-based Command & Control analysis and tradeoff dashboard for military acquisition and decision making.

ARCHITECT [August 2010 - December 2011]
Development of a complexity-based real options valuation methodology for use in the top-down, capabilities focused approach for the acquisition of military systems-of-systems architectures.

Honors, Distinctions and Invited Lectures

• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Scholar

Selected Publications

• Domercant, J. C. and Mavris, Dimitri N., 2011, “Measuring the Architectural Complexity of Military Systems-of-Systems”, IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, Paper No. 1649.
• Domercant, J.C., "ARC-VM: An Architectural Real Options Complexity-Based Valuation Methodology for Military Systems-of-Systems Acquisitions," Ph.D. dissertation, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 2011.