Michael Lyons

Background

About Michael Lyons

Polished former military officer with unique leadership, operations, and staff experience. Sharp program management and problem solving skills across the breadth of C4ISR and autonomous systems. Recognized subject matter expert (SME) on unmanned aircraft system (UAS) operations - Global UAS experience - Capital Hill and Pentagon veteran - Experienced military commander - Years of organizational risk management development - DoD Acquisition trained - Operational Flight Test experience - Academic courseware development experience - Experienced flight instructor - Airspace Integration - Contract management experience Joint advocate for effective application of Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination (TCPED) at Joint/International, Combatant Command and Service Component levels - Requirements decomposition - End-to-end ISR mission analysis - Development of operational value chains Specialties: Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Rotorcraft Instructor/Evaluator pilot RQ-4 and UH-1N Military squadron- and group-level standardization management experience Experienced military commander Civilian Ratings: Commercial Pilot - airplane and helicopter Instrument Pilot - airplane and helicopter Airplane singe engine land; Rotorcraft - helicopter Command pilot with over hours in conventional aircraft and over 500 hours in UAS Active US TS/SCI+ security clearance.