Dr. Vincent J. Kovarik Jr. - Member At Large

With over 30 years of systems and software development, Vince has been involved in Software Defined Radio (SDR) technology development for the last decade. As a member of the Modular Software Radio Consortium (MSRC), he worked on the initial version of the Software Communications Architecture (SCA). Vince was the product manager for the Domain Management ToolKit (dmTK), a commercial off-the-shelf product that implemented of the Software Communications Architecture (SCA) first available in 2000. He is co-author with Dr. John Bard of "Software Defined Radio: The Software Communications Architecture" published by Wiley and Sons and a contributing author to "Cognitive Radio Technology", Dr. Bruce Fette, Editor published by Academic Press. Vince led the software team that successfully inserted the DARPA XG Dynamic Spectrum Access technology into the Harris Falcon III tactical radio and subsequent field test at Yuma Proving Grounds. As Chief Technology Officer at PrismTech, Dr. Kovarik is leading the coordination and definition of multiple SDR products including advanced modeling tools, object request broker and the Software Communications Architecture (SCA) core framework.