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Daniel J. Braley, FSME

Sr. Program Manager - Engineering & Depot Services, V2X
Advanced Manufacturing Fellow, Astro America

Dan Braley is the Sr Program Manager - Engineering & Depot Services at V2X, and an ASTRO America Advanced Manufacturing Fellow. He is also a former Boeing Technical Fellow that served as the Boeing Global Services Additive Manufacturing Technical Focal & Initiatives Leader, and a Boeing Designated Expert (BDE) in Additive Manufacturing. In this role, he served sustainment of all Boeing military, commercial, and derivative aircraft platforms through use of Additive Manufacturing technologies and implementation of advanced composites. Dan has greater than 20 years of aerospace program and R&D experience in additive manufacturing, technical program management, materials and process engineering, composites, electromagnetic product development, and manufacturing technology development. Dan is also a Society of Manufacturing Engineers Fellow (FSME), and a former Professor of Practice at Virginia Tech. Prior to this role, Dan was the USN/USMC Air Vehicle
Technical Integrator through Boeing, with a focus on F/A-18 Flight Control Surfaces, wings, complex spares and repairs. He has held positions with Northrop Grumman Space Technology, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, L-3 Communications ESSCO, and the Air Force Research Laboratory Munitions Aerial Vehicle (MNAV) directorate at Eglin Air Force Base as well. Dan currently holds 85 US and international patents in the areas of additive manufacturing, next gen conductive composite materials, and ceramic matrix composite materials development with many more patents still pending. He is a past recipient of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, the Boeing Meritorious & High Honors Invention Awards, the Northrop Grumman Innovation Award, and the F-35 Lightning Rod Award. Dan received his BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Florida State University, an MS in Engineering Management from Drexel University, and a Certificate in Additive Manufacturing from MIT. Dan is also a Certified Additive Manufacturing Technician (CAM-T) through UL, America Makes, and SME Tooling University.

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