Mike Tomlinson

Vice President, Army Aviation, Missiles, and Fires

SAIC

W. Mike Tomlinson is vice president of the Army Aviation, Missiles, and Fires business headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama – SAIC’s second largest location. In this role he is responsible for leading over 2,000 employees within the Army Navy Business Group and is responsible for strategy, growth and program execution for the $1B+ operation.

Tomlinson previously held the position of director of SAIC’s Army Intel, Space and Missile Defense sub account, executing a diverse and complex portfolio that included National Guard G-2, INSCOM, FORSCOM, USASOC, Program Executive Office Missies and Space, the Army Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office and the Army Space and Missile Defense Command

Tomlinson joined SAIC in 2001 as part of SAIC’s acquisition of Quality Research, Inc. from his former position as a senior operations research analyst and task lead from Nichols Research Corporation (NRC). In this position, he led an engineering and operations research-oriented team and used a variety of analytical tools including Janus; Combined Arms and Support Task Force Evaluation Model (CASTFOREM); Vector in Commander (VIC); EAGLE; System Effectiveness Analysis
Simulation (SEAS); Joint Conflict and Tactical Simulation (JCATS); Arena; Extend; and Satellite Tool Kit. Tomlinson also conducted system and subsystem level analyses and trade studies for Program Executive Office Tactical Missiles and Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC).

Prior to NRC, Tomlinson was a U.S. Army Field Artillery officer and was the battery commander for the 1st Infantry Division’s Multiple Launch Rocket System Battery as well as a 155 mm Self-Propelled Howitzer Fire Direction Officer and Combat Observation Lasing Team (COLT) platoon leader. Tomlinson is recognized as one of the company experts in numerous analytical tools and has designed methodologies and architectures to physically federate models together and represent satellites in Army-approved and Joint force on force models. He has conducted force on force and operational analyses on many different systems and capabilities including the TOW2B anti-tank missile, Follow-on To TOW, Line-of- Sight anti-tank missile, JAVELIN anti-tank missile, MLRS, High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, Army Tactical Missile System, Hellfire anti-tank missile, Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System, Joint Common Missile, UTAGS, Hyperspectral Imagery, Space Based Radar, Space Radar, Space Control Capabilities, Directed Energy Laser, Joint Blue Force Situational Awareness/Blue Force Tracking, Swarming Entities, Battlefield Ordnance Awareness, TacSat-3 satellite, High Altitude Capabilities, Persistent Platform, Nanosatellites, Overhead Persistent Infrared Study, Cyber, Electric Fires, Operational Responsive Space and Multi Domain Operations.

Tomlinson holds a Master of Science in Engineering from University of Alabama in Huntsville and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Kansas State University.

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