Ted Lemcke
Vice President of IT and Systems Engineering
A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Mr. Lemcke’s military career includes having served as an Intelligence Officer for a 5,000-person command, a Company Commander, and a Targeting Intelligence Officer during Operation Desert Storm. He has more than 25 years of experience with Department of Defense (DoD) and service-specific C4I systems, dating back to 1982 when he worked with the Distributed Command and Control System at the U.S. Army High Technology Test Bed.
Mr. Lemcke has been directly involved in the architecture and development of a wide range of technologies from dispersion models to financial management systems. He was the primary architect of a simulation-based acquisition tool suite for a $2.7 billion Federal program. Having saved the Federal Government hundreds of millions in resource requests, this tool suite received a Profiles in Innovation Product Impact Award in 2004 from the GOVSEC, U.S. Law & READY! Advisory Board. Mr. Lemcke led the development of an atmospheric dispersion model that is one of only three certified by DoD for chemical and biological modeling and provided corporate leadership in the development of grant management software that is used by 79 organizations in 10 states and six Federal offices to manage an average annual budget of approximately $65 million.
He has led multiple independent tests of mission critical automation systems for the Federal Government, including an integrated product test for an $80M lifecycle Federal automation system used for command and control during disaster response. Representing the culmination of multiple years of system testing and evaluation, and involving Federal, state, and local authorities across two states and several jurisdictions, this test ultimately prevented the government from further investments in a system that did not provide the desired return in public safety.
Mr. Lemcke has applied systems engineering approaches to policy-shaping technical analyses for chemical and biological (CB) defense, including analyses of the effects of a CB attack on U.S. force projection, the feasibility of mobile sensors for detecting biological releases, and the effects of CB defense items on the consequences of a CB attack by enemies of the United States. He is currently providing corporate leadership for the development of key elements of the Joint Effects Model (JEM) which, when fielded, will be the single WMD prediction and tracking model used by DoD.
Mr. Lemcke holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Science and a Bachelor’s degree in Interdisciplinary Sciences.
