Richard H. Vollmerhausen

Dr. Richard H. Vollmerhausen received his PhD in EE (Optics and Photonics) from the University of Delaware in 2013. He received a BS and MS in Physics from Arizona State before being drafted out of the PhD in Physics program in 1969. 

  After being drafted in April 1965, Dr. Vollmerhausen served as 1LT “Long Lines” Platoon Leader in the 4th of the 44th Air Defense Artillery in Korea. His work experience includes Instrumentation Engineer at Douglas Aircraft on the S-IVB Stage of the Saturn Apollo. Later he worked the AIM/9 Sidewinder seeker at China Lake. 

  He joined the Night Vision Lab in 1982 as Airborne Systems Team Leader and initiated the Obstacle Avoidance System and Advanced Helicopter Pilotage System Advanced Development Programs. He conducted flight experiments to establish design criteria for helicopter pilotage vision aids and published the results in conference papers and chapters in two books. 

  As head of the Model Development Branch at NVL, he developed the target set methodology for model validation. Dr. Vollmerhausen’s target acquisition performance metric experiments got the Army to formally adopt the Targeting Task Performance Metric in lieu of the Johnson Criteria for formal evaluations and war games. 

    In recent years, Dr. Vollmerhausen has consulted for a number of government organizations and companies and taught short courses for SPIE and GTRI. He has published two books, five chapters in compendiums, 30 journal papers, and numerous conference papers.