Dylan Schmorrow

Dylan Schmorrow is an American scientist and retired United States Defense Official. He is currently the Chief Scientist at Soar Technology. He is a retired US Navy Captain, and served as the Deputy Director of the Human Performance, Training, and BioSystems Research Directorate at the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Research & Engineering (ASD(R&E)) at Office of the Secretary of Defense. He was also Specialty Leader of the Aerospace Experimental Psychologist community and an Acquisition Professional in the Naval Acquisition Corps.

He has previously served as the Executive Assistant to the Chief of Naval Research at the Office of Naval Research. He was instrumental in expanding the field of Augmented Cognition as a DARPA Program Manager (see Esquire, Avionics Interview). He was also a key developer of Virtual Environment Technology as PM of the VIRTE (Virtual Technologies and Environments) program. He led the development of the Amphibious Assault Vehicle Turret Trainer project.

Schmorrow was the recipient of the first Leland S. Kollmorgen Spirit of Innovation award presented by the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) which was presented at the Fourth Augmented Cognition International Conference in Baltimore on October 2, 2007 On May 29, 2008 at a ceremony at the Pentagon, CAPT Schmorrow was awarded the Department of the Navy Top Scientists and Engineers of the Year Awards for 2007 for his work on the Infantry Immersion Trainer Navy Top Scientist

Education
Jenkins Postdoctoral Fellow, Applied Cognitive Research

Naval Postgraduate School – September 1998

Doctor of Philosophy, Experimental Psychology

Western Michigan University – June 1993

Doctoral Fellowship, Experimental Psychology

Georgetown University – August 1992

Master of Science, Modeling, Virtual Environments and Simulation

Naval Postgraduate School – September 1998

Master of Science, Operations Research

Naval Postgraduate School – September 1998

Master of Arts, Experimental Psychology

Western Michigan University – August 1990

Master of Arts, Philosophy

Western Michigan University – June 1993

Bachelor of Science, Economics and Psychology

Western Michigan University – June 1989

Awards and decorations
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