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Mr. Jay E. Dryer
Director of the Fundamental Aeronautics Program Office
Image left: Jay E. Dryer, Director of the Fundamental Aeronautics Program Office. Image credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
As the director of the Fundamental Aeronautics Program Office, Mr. Dryer
is responsible for the overall planning, management and evaluation of
the directorate's efforts to conduct high-quality, cutting-edge
fundamental aeronautics research across all flight regimes from subsonic
through hypersonic. In addition, he supports the associate administrator
in a broad range of mission directorate activities, including strategic
and program planning; budget development; program review and evaluation;
and external coordination.
Previously, Dryer was senior technical advisor for the directorate. He
was responsible for the technical oversight of all ARMD programs and
projects including establishing a top level architecture, requirements
and budgets, allocation of program and project responsibilities, program
technical reviews and research activities. Dryer was also in charge of
the directorate's extensive NASA Research Announcement (NRA) process.
Before joining NASA, he worked with Arion Systems and SRA International
providing technical support to the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA). His work included research in rotorcraft for the DARPA
Helicopter Quieting Program significant planning for the 2004 DARPA
Grand Challenge program, an innovative autonomous vehicle race in the
desert.
During the 1990s, Dryer served in the U.S. Navy's Nuclear Submarine
Force, the Deep Submergence Unit, and Development Squadron Five,
specializing in development and operation of unmanned aerial and
submersible vehicles. He directed the unmanned submersible vehicle that
located the wreck of the U.S.S. Yorktown from World War II, and he also
commanded the last survey missions to the sites of the lost U.S.S
Thresher and U.S.S Scorpion submarines.
Dryer holds a Bachelor of Science degree in systems engineering from the
U.S. Naval Academy and a Masters of Science degree in ocean engineering
from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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