Joe Ross

Joe Ross is a Principal Scientist in the Joint Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (JISR) Service Line at the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) in The Hague, The Netherlands. He is the JISR Technical Design Authority for the Agency, providing programme and project support for many NATO and Agency activities associated with development and implementation of interoperable ISR efforts in NATO and Coalition domains. He is responsible for interoperability among all NATO JISR related capabilities and the interoperability of those assets with other NATO and National assets.

He supports efforts associated with Intelligence Functional Services (INTEL FS), Core Geographic Information Systems (Core GIS), NATO Airborne Early Warning & Control (NAEW&C), and Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS). He served as the Technical Manager for the nationally funded Multi-INT All-source Joint ISR Interoperability Coalition 2 (MAJIIC 2), and held that position for the predecessor Multi-sensor Aerospace/ground Joint ISR Interoperability (MAJIIC) project, and its predecessor, the Coalition Aerial Surveillance and Reconnaissance (CAESAR) project.

Mr Ross has worked for NATO since 1998; developing, testing, deploying and supporting interoperable systems, capabilities, processes and procedures that support NATO and Nations, which has included deployments to support operations in Kosovo and Afghanistan.

Prior to joining NATO, Mr. Ross spent 10 years with the MITRE Corporation as a system analyst, test engineer and flight test engineer during early stages of the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) program. He went on to become the Study Director for the Joint STARS Cost and Operational Effectiveness Analysis (COEA) and deployed with the system to support Operation Joint Endeavour, which led to a position as a US subject matter expert at the SHAPE Technical Centre (STC) in The Hague, now part of the NCI Agency.