For over 20 years, Mr. Carpenter has been engineering systems for high-value and life-critical, real-time, fault-tolerant, and secure applications in domains including medical, defense and commercial avionics, space, and petrochemicals. His focus has covered detailed hardware and software design, architecture development, systems design and specification, and tools, standards, and processes for enhancing the design flow. Earlier work included technology transfer programs to productize innovations, including critical infrastructure protection for industrial applications, automating task-specific, user and device interactions, and commercial integrated, highly reliable avionics systems for defense and space markets.
While at Adventium, Mr. Carpenter has continued developing technology for life- and mission-critical applications, including risk assessment, verification and validation techniques, and highly scalable systems. He led the development of automation techniques to identify and rank mixed-mode threats, vulnerabilities, and consequences for infrastructure and force protection missions. Current activities include advancing automation for that ranking system, evaluating new anti-tamper techniques for mission-critical avionics systems, and identifying critical issues in next-generation avionics data and control networks. An ongoing project, funded by NASA, involved applying integrated constraint and math programming techniques to analyze the behavior of complex, reconfigurable autonomous systems (e.g., Mars rovers, construction robots, or advanced life-support systems for long-term human habitation). Another ongoing project, funded by AFRL, is researching techniques to scale highly connected applications to huge networks.
Mr. Carpenter has maintained collaborative ties with industry, university and government researchers, including joint proposals with the University of Minnesota, colloquium presentations at Sandia Red Team workshops, involvement with InfraGard, and sponsoring graduate and undergraduate interns.
Earlier, while employed at Guidant Corporation (now Boston Scientific), Mr. Carpenter provided system's engineering for the now fielded LATITUDE medical implant and patient monitoring system, including the design, definition, and implementation of system requirements, system specifications, input/output processes, system partitioning, and total system integration by applying experiments, simulations, mathematical analysis and system interaction analysis.
While at Honeywell, Mr. Carpenter led Honeywell Laboratory's Critical Infrastructure Protection thrust, including industrial security against mixed terrorist threats. He developed a business plan, market study, and threat analysis based on defense, insurance, and industry surveys, identifying key risks, which ultimately led to development of a comprehensive macroscopic vulnerability analysis process to identify, evaluate, and rank broad area system vulnerabilities, and the successful creation of significant new business relationships. Mr. Carpenter also designed ASICs for high integrity systems, developed system and architecture trade-off and analysis tools for high-value systems. He managed the development of a constraint-based static scheduler for flight critical avionics for the Airplane Information Management System, the integrated modular avionics system for the Boeing 777. This successful multi-year, internally funded multi-million dollar effort involved multiple geographically distributed teams, including the research organization and the Honeywell product division. The tool was delivered on-time to the product division, and the subsequent technology transfer has enabled the division to actively use, maintain, and adapt the tool to continue to support the Boeing 777, 717, and C5-AMP fleets. His leadership of this successful program earned Mr. Carpenter the H.W. Sweatt Award, Honeywell’s highest technical achievement award.
Contact Information:
Todd P. Carpenter
Research and Development Systems Engineer
todd dot carpenter at adventiumlabs dot org
651.295.7126