Alex Brofos is a Senior Principal Engineer at The MITRE Corporation and is presently a MITRE project leader for Marine Corps Air Command and Control and Sensor Netting (AC2SN), Ground Air Task Oriented Radar (GATOR), Medium Range Air Defense Radar (MRADR) and 5G. Alex is a specialist in data analysis, visualization, and machine learning and is also a data scientist for the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) focused on improving Veteran claim processing speed, accuracy, and equity.
Mr. Brofos is an inventor and is currently applying unsupervised machine learning to large data sets to improve automatic track identification. Alex has recently prototyped an advanced algorithm to recommend the best military options in the face of deceptive tactics and imperfect knowledge. He also leads an initiative whose aim is to save millions of dollars during system development by representing costly test vehicles electronically. In the past, Alex’s technical leadership roles have focused on Sensor Fusion, Integrated Air and Missile Defense, Ballistic Missile Defense, Cruise Missile Defense, and Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems for the Marine Corps, Navy, Army, Air Force and Missile Defense Agency. Alex has also conducted analyses on airspace safety for the Federal Aviation Administration, and on climate change for the Department of Commerce. Alex participates in outreach to help innovation succeed in small businesses in the State of Massachusetts and has been a judge for firms meeting the requirements of the Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation.
Prior to joining MITRE, Alex was a hardware and software design and development engineer at Raytheon.
EDUCATION
Tufts University, M.S., Electrical Engineering
Tufts University, B.S., Electrical Engineering