Henry Phillips

Affiliation

Advanced Digital Learning (ADL) Initiative

Biography

Henry L. Phillips IV, PhD is Program Manager and Chief of Staff for the Advanced Digital Learning (ADL) Initiative. He retired from active duty as a Navy Commander following a 20-year career as an Aerospace Experimental Psychologist, including service as Executive Officer of the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division. During his active-duty career, he developed modeling and simulation training tools and capabilities in use by 11,000 warfighters per year, and remains a leader in research and development in human systems, modeling and simulation, training, and intelligent systems. He is a winner of the Chatelier Lifetime Achievement Award, the Team Orlando Collaboration Award for the Squad Overmatch project, the Army HSI Award for his development of the HSI Readiness Level model, and was part of the team that won the Boorda Award for Policy (Civilian) for his work on the Live Virtual Constructive Training Fidelity effort. He holds a PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Houston, and has over 70 peer-reviewed articles, technical reports, and presentations in the areas of training, modeling and simulation, data integration, item response theory, personnel selection, and psychometrics.