Welcome to SOAR Intelligent Solutions.
Fusing Military, Aerospace Innovation, and AI/ML Excellence.
Welcome to SOAR Intelligent Solutions.
SOAR Intelligent Solutions, LLC (SOAR) collectively brings together decades of experience in military operational knowledge, aerospace engineering, machine learning/artificial intelligence and software engineering. The project team has a demonstrated record of accomplishment in successfully completing dozens of federal and civilian projects.
Mr. Provda possesses several decades of experience in aviation and related industries, with a strong focus on the adaptive reuse of technologies. Throughout his career, he has held executive leadership and consulting roles across EMEA, North and South America, and ASEAN countries. His expertise centers on the adaptive reuse of both certified and experimental aircraft, along with the acquisition of related intellectual property for non-commercial applications. These applications include innovative approaches to surveillance, fire-fighting, interdiction, and cargo transportation. Additionally, Mr. Provda has significant experience in implementing CRM, ERP, and revenue probabilistic modeling technologies. He has also been involved in the purchase and sale of airport facilities, aircraft, and aircraft components, as well as in the leadership of airlines and aviation-related organizations.
Contact: alan@soarintelligentsolutions.com
Dr. Crassidis is a Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Department of Mechanical Engineering. He has more than 20 years of industrial experience in the areas control, and measurements systems. Dr. Crassidis received a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from The University at Buffalo where he specialized in the areas of systems engineering, mechanical system design, robotic systems, and nonlinear control methods. Currently, Dr. Crassidis is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Dr. Crassidis has worked for Calspan Corporation as a senior Aeronautical Engineer and Lead Systems Engineer for an experimental flight research NF-16 aircraft (the VISTA, currently the X62A aircraft) used primarily as an in-flight simulator and Veridian Transportation Division as a part-time consulting engineer to analyze components of the Automated Highway System.
Dr. Crassidis developed the control laws for the VISTA and many other research aircraft programs. He has more than 30 years of industrial experience in the areas of aerospace flight control system design; aircraft parameter identification; mathematical modeling and identification of nonlinear systems using experimental responses; systems engineering; mechanical systems design; and navigation, control, and measurements systems. He is an active member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics serving as a past Technical Committee Chair for the Atmospheric Flight Mechanics section. He also has more than 20 years of teaching experience as a part-time and full-time faculty member teaching graduate courses in systems modeling, flight dynamics, orbital mechanics, linear and nonlinear control systems. Currently, Dr. Crassidis is developing advanced artificial intelligent control methods that are solely based on systems measurements and require no theoretical models for control tuning or development. The new control strategy was successfully applied to the control of an Learjet aircraft as part of an Air Force Test Pilot School Test Management Project. He also is developing advanced measurement systems for use in vehicle orientation sensing to a high degree of accuracy that is valid is all dynamical conditions. Dr. Crassidis is also researching methods for estimating gross weight and center-of-gravity locations of vehicles solely using traditionally available measurements requiring no knowledge of the vehicle systems dynamics. In addition, Dr. Crassidis performed a year-long sabbatical at Impact Technologies (SBIR Tibbetts Award winner) supported by external grant funds for the development of an orientation estimation device and highly accurate inertial navigation system and was also the PI/co-PI on over 15 SBIR/STTR Phase I and II awards.
Contact: acrassidis@soarintelligentsolutions.com
Dr. Daniel Krutz is an Associate Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology, Department of Software Engineering and Global Cybersecurity Institute. Krutz is the Director of the Autonomy, WARfare, and Engineering (AWARE) Lab, which supports several externally funded projects for the NSF, NSA and the DOD. Krutz is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2022). Krutz received a research faculty fellowship at the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). Krutz has advised high level DOD programs in the areas of AI and strategic reasoning. He is the author of numerous AI/ML-focused publications, many of which have appeared in top tier venues. Dr. Krutz has achieved over $6M in federally funded projects since 2018 from sources such as the AFRL, ONR, NSF and NSA.
Contact: dkrutz@soarintelligentsolutions.comThrough our team and partnerships, SOAR offers a variety of services, including:
Utilizing its research, operational and implementation capabilities and experiences, SOAR can provide consulting and development services in these areas.
| Contact Type | |
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| General Inquiries | General@soarintelligentsolutions.com |
| Media Inquiries | Media@soarintelligentsolutions.com |
| Consulting Inquiries | Consulting@soarintelligentsolutions.com |
| Position | |
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| Software Engineer | SEOps@soarintelligentsolutions.com |
| Artificial Intelligence Expert - Consulting | AIOps@soarintelligentsolutions.com |
| Aerospace Engineer - Consulting | AEOps@soarintelligentsolutions.com |
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