Robert C. Stirbl, Ph.D.

National Defense Programs, Manager
8110
O: 8183545436
E: Robert.C.Stirbl@jpl.nasa.gov

Dr. Stirbl is the Program Manager for the National Defense Programs Agencies Office (8112) at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech in the Earth Science and Technology Directorate’s (ESTD) National Space Technology Applications (NSTA) Office. Since 1996 Dr. Stirbl has led the developed of new sponsor support as well as managed and technically contributed to the concept design, development and adaptation of numerous NASA and DoD funded systems enabling technology capabilities for transfer and insertion into Navy, DoD, NASA, medical and industrial applications. These include but are not limited to: cost-, power- and workforce-saving and performance-improving, advanced rad-hard CMOS active Pixel Sensor FPA technology, compact EO/IR 360 Deg surveillance sensor systems, ultra-stable compact space capable atomic clocks, heterogeneous-platform Automated Network Policy Negotiation System Test Technologies, In-water & On-water Multi-UxV Mission-level Intelligent Autonomous Navigation/Landing/Dynamic hazard avoidance/path-replanning/vehicle health monitoring system demonstrations, Compact-low-power Ultra-High-Speed Hybrid Grayscale Optical/Neural Network Processing of sonar-radar-EO/IR image intelligence data & THz personnel borne IED 3D imaging radar. A recognized electro-optical systems design expert and Project/Program Manager with over 30 years of academic and industrial experience in High Energy Laser electro-optical system design for Northrop-Grumman and Riverside Research Institute. He has designed, and developed over 16 patented optical methods for DoD HEL and laser biomedical diagnosis.

Dr. Stirbl received his B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the City College of New York in 1973 and 1976 and his Ph.D at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 1981. He has taught courses in quantum- and electro-optical system design at N.Y.U. School of Graduate Studies, Pratt Institute, City College of New York and was a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Manhattan College.