David Hall

Affiliation

SURVICE Engineering Company

Biography

David H. Hall has had a 55+ year career conducting modeling, simulation, and analysis for all the military services, but principally for the U.S. Navy. He is the Chief Analyst of the SURVICE Engineering Company for VV&A, providing VV&A support to numerous Navy programs. He retired after 34 years of Federal Civil Service, where he was the Chief Analyst of the Naval Air Warfare Center Survivability Division, Branch Head of the Survivability Analysis Branches, Director of the Joint Accreditation Support Activity (supporting VV&A of M&S for the Joint Services) and Chairman of the Survivability Methodology Subgroup for the Joint Technical Coordinating Group on Aircraft Survivability (JTCG/AS). He was Joint Program Manager of the OSD-funded Susceptibility Model Assessment with Range Test (SMART) program which developed the foundations of the VV&A process described in this paper. Dave holds B.S. and M.A. degrees in mathematics from California State University at Long Beach.