2025 Fellow

Presented to: Dr. Jeffrey Hebert

Citation: For contributions to the advancement of navigation
warfare and defense related positioning, navigation,
and timing technologies

Dr. Jeffrey Hebert’s active-duty Air Force career (1991-2011) accomplishments include the development of instrumentation to support experiments in manned flight simulation, to include the implementation and evaluation of advanced guidance, navigation, and control technologies. He pioneered techniques in developmental, operational, and follow-on test and evaluation to evaluate PNT capabilities of Air Force weapons systems. He led a team of officer, enlisted, and civilian airmen in the execution of hardware-in-the-loop and open-air navigation testing. During his military career he was at the forefront of the development, implementation, and testing of navigation warfare technologies.

After retiring from military service (2011), Dr. Hebert served in a variety of PNT technology development, management, and leadership roles for the Air Force Research Laboratory where he developed concepts and prototypes to train pilots to counter PNT electronic warfare threats and to improve the diversity of sources used for navigation. He championed the use of digital engineering, open architecture, and software-defined systems for PNT avionics. He spearheaded and motivated the development of an Air Force PNT Strategic Plan, which guides and shapes the development of Air Force PNT capabilities. Dr. Hebert made significant contributions to the concepts, equipment, and test and evaluation for military navigation systems. These contributions would be leveraged in the test and evaluation of every major Air Force, and many DoD, weapons systems for decades – many of which are still in use.

Dr. Hebert is currently a member of the scientific and professional cadre of senior executives, is the senior scientist for PNT, Sensors Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB. Dr. Hebert received his BS in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and his MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology.