Gene Allen

Board Member

Gene Allen retired from the US Navy Civil Service in 2017 to pursue efforts to use emerging technologies to ensure broad availability of future economic opportunity. He has a specific focus on simulation-supported experiential learning to support workforce development. This is based on his experience establishing and managing collaborative R&D programs aimed at using computers to conduct better engineering since 1987. Programs such as the DARPA Initiative in Concurrent Engineering as Senator Byrd’s Economic Development and Defense Procurement Assistant, the NIST ATP co-funded Rapid Response Manufacturing Program as NCMS Director for Collaborative Development, and the DARPA co-funded Robust Design Computational System while with MSC Software. His book

Collaborative R&D – Manufacturing’s New Tool, co-authored with Rick Jarman, captures the methods and processes used to establish and execute successful collaborative efforts. In 2008, Gene established the company Decision Incite to deploy stochastic simulation broadly and has since worked with MSC Software, IBM, Engineous, and Ontonix. He returned to the Navy in 2009, establishing and leading a team to capture the ship design process while at NSWC Carderock. In 2013, he took a position with the Ohio Replacement/Columbia Class SSBN Acquisition Program at NAVSEA to coordinate life-cycle application of the program’s Integrated Product Development Environment.

Gene’s experience with workforce development is from training nuclear propulsion teams as the Reactor Training Assistant on USS ARKANSAS, CGN-41, after participating in construction, testing, and operations as a U.S. Naval officer. He has a degree in Nuclear Engineering from MIT and served as President of the MIT Club of Washington from 2018-2020. He co-owns a patent with Dr. Jacek Marczyk on using fuzzy cognitive maps to display Monte Carlo simulation results.