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Alesia Engineering, LLC

About Alesia Engineering

Leeha Wood, founder

Leeha Wood founded Alesia Engineering in 2018 to develop rapid prototypes to increase space situational awareness (SSA) and battle management command, control, and communications (BMC3). With vast system engineering experience and a sterling reputation in the space domain, she focuses on novel uses of existing data sources.

Leeha lives in Colorado Springs with her family. In her spare time, she enjoys mentoring startups at the SDA TAP Lab, volunteering as BSA Scout leader, and coaching girls’ lacrosse.

Published papers

Herrera, Leeha, and Nigel Tzeng. "3D Visualization of Satellite Status and Environment Using Open Source Software," SpaceOps 2006 Conference, 2006.

Lala, Leon, Leeha Herrera-Wood, and Donald Perrotta. "Intelligent Systems for Space Situational Awareness," Infotech@ Aerospace, 2011, p. 1433.

Herrera, Leeha, and Carolyn Chura. "Spacecraft Health & Safety Monitoring Without Limits," Infotech@ Aerospace, 2005, p. 7180.

Herrera, Leeha Rae-Lyn. "Creating a methodology and tool to capture and resolve conflicts in developing software requirements: Requirement Lifecycle Modeling Views manager," Texas A&M University Fellows Thesis, 2000.

McKerracher, P., et al. "Complete Ground Software Re-use: The Common Ground Approach to a Re-usable, Shared Ground System," The Fifth International Symposium on Reducing the Cost of Spacecraft Ground Systems and Operations (RCSGSO), 2003.

Acknowledgments

J. P. DeVale and K. M. C. Tan, "Evaluating information assurance performance and the impact of data characteristics," 2010 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST), Waltham, MA, USA, 2010, pp. 15-21, doi: 10.1109/THS.2010.5655105.

Colin Morrow, Chief Operating Officer

Colin Morrow is an accomplished corporate senior leader and U.S. Army Reserve Brigadier General with over 20 years of experience leading multi-million-dollar defense firms, both large and small.

 

His many years of experience as a program manager with Booz Allen Hamilton uniquely position Colin as a champion for the people and missions he serves. With a strong reputation for driving business development and strategic growth, building high-performing teams, and delivering mission-critical solutions across DoD, Colin is committed to advancing client objectives with precision and integrity.

Published papers

“A Framework to Establish Trust in Intelligence Analysis,” MI Corp Magazine, 2019.

“Robust Decision Making for Improved Mission Assurance,” AFRL RYWA, 2013.

“Metrics for Trust in Layered Sensing,” Collaborative Technologies Symposium, 2010.

Lance Earwood, Chief Technology Officer

Lance Earwood is an experienced technologist with deep expertise in data compression, image processing, and advanced navigation technologies. 

Over the course of his ten years at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), he contributed to multiple research and development efforts supporting national security missions. Following his tenure at APL, Lance served as a remote Principal Investigator for a small defense firm, where he led several Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) programs exploring emerging capabilities in sensing and data transmission. 

Published papers and patents

Lance has authored research published through the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

 He is also an inventor on a U.S. patent involving adaptive data compression and transmission techniques.

About Alesia Engineering

Alesia Engineering, LLC, is a woman- and minority-owned small business. Our goal is to build operationally relevant prototype solutions to enable proactive decisions and improve Space Battle Management functions against a sophisticated adversary.

 

Our employees have over two decades of experience in research and development for government solutions in classified and unclassified areas, and deep familiarity with the current challenges in space domain awareness. We offer a critical piece to the larger space domain awareness solution. Most importantly, we actively seek direct feedback from space warfighters to assess the viability of our approach with hands-on engagement and transparency into our algorithms and vetting.

 

Alesia Engineering was an active participant in the SDA TAP Lab Apollo Accelerators Cohorts 6–8.

About the name

The Alesia Engineering name was inspired by the Battle of Alesia in 52 BC, one of the most important battles of the Gallic Wars.

 

The battle took place near the fortified hill town of Alesia, in what is now modern France. On one side stood Caesar’s Roman legions—disciplined, heavily armed, and masters of military engineering. On the other was a coalition of Gallic tribes led by Vercingetorix of the Arverni, who sought to end Roman domination. Caesar’s army built two strategic walls—an inner wall to trap the Gauls inside, and an outer wall to repel Gallic reinforcements. The dual fortification was a feat of Roman engineering and strategy.

 

The Roman victory at Alesia brought all of Gaul under Roman control. Politically and symbolically, it cemented Caesar’s reputation as one of history’s greatest military commanders, and set the stage for the beginning of the Roman Empire.