Gregory Tackett

Retired Army Senior Executive

Contact

301 Sparkman Drive
Huntsville, AL 35899
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Biography

Greg Tackett is a retired U.S. Army senior executive service (SES) Director of the Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC), Systems Simulation and Development Directorate (SSD) and the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) Operational Test Agency (OTA). Mr. Tackett has over forty years of systems engineering, modeling & simulation and test & evaluation experience. He earned a bachelor's in physics from Mississippi College and an MBA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.  He has been teaching with the UAH Office of Professional and Continuing Education for over twenty years.


Education

  • E.M.B.A., Business, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2009
  • B.S., Physics, Mississippi College, 1982

Affiliations

  • Leadership Greater Huntsville
  • Huntsville/Madison County Chamber of Commerce

Honors & Awards

  • Meritorious Civilian Service Award, 2015

Expertise

  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Ballistic Missile Defense
  • Aviation
  • Missile Defense
  • Test and Evaluation
  • Systems Engineering
  • System Analysis