Scott “Beav” Ward is the Director of the Electronic Systems Laboratory (ELSYS). Beav has over twenty-four years of service to our country in the US Air Force as a pilot, with operational and test & evaluation experience in the F-15C and F-16. He served in many leadership roles in the domains of operational test and evaluation, weapons and tactics, and innovation at the combatant command level. 

Beav joined GTRI in 2016 as a Principal Research Engineer and soon took on leadership, first as an Associate and then as Chief of ACL’s Systems and Signals Division. In this role, he oversaw ACL’s portfolio in modeling, simulation and analysis, digital engineering, and operations in the information environment.  He has collaborated with ELSYS in the areas of flight test engineering, digital/model-based systems engineering, and our portfolio of Electronic Warfare in general.