Dan “Animal” Javorsek

Prior to joining EpiSci, Dr. Javorsek was a Colonel and the Commander of the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center, Detachment 6. Throughout his Air Force career, he commanded thousands of personnel executing Developmental and Operational Test and Evaluation for over $10B worth of A-10, F-15, F-16, F-22, F-35, F-117, and the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) Family of Systems (FoS) aircraft including Penetrating Counter Air (PCA) and Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) acquisition programs. 

Dr. Javorsek is an accomplished test pilot with over 2000 hours flying demonstrator, prototype, and operational aircraft while simultaneously remaining active in nuclear astrophysics research. He holds several advanced degrees including a PhD in Physics from Purdue University and has published over 90 conference and journal publications including a rocket engine patent. Between operational and flying test assignments he performed duties as a Program Manager in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Strategic Technology Office (STO) and as a researcher in the Intelligence Community (IC) with projects at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the National Counterproliferation Center (NCPC). 

While at DARPA, Dr. Javorsek led several Artificial Intelligence (AI) programs focused on the application of autonomy to combat at a variety of scales. His main programs ranged from sensor resource management in the Converged Collaborative Elements for Radio Frequency Task Operations (CONCERTO) at the sub-platform scale, to aircraft maneuver in the AlphaDogfight Trials and the Air Combat Evolution (ACE) program and he extended this concept all the way to the integration of space effects to support Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) in the Adapting Cross-domain Kill-webs (ACK) effort supporting Assault Breaker II. 

Throughout his career he has diligently pursued the democratization of software that prevents vendor lock and exposes the latent capability to adapt that is resident within the existing war fighting system.