James Coolahan
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JAMES E. COOLAHAN, Ph.D., is the Chief Technology Officer of Coolahan Associates, LLC, having retired from full-time employment at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) in December 2012 after 40 years of service. For Coolahan Associates, he provides short courses in Digital Engineering and in Modeling and Simulation (M&S) for Systems Engineering, and provides consulting services on defense M&S topics. He chaired the M&S Committee of the Systems Engineering Division of the National Defense Industrial Association from 2010 through 2016, and continues to teach courses in M&S for Systems Engineering and in Digital Engineering in the JHU Engineering for Professionals M.S. program. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in aerospace engineering from the University of Notre Dame and the Catholic University of America, respectively, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from JHU and the University of Maryland, respectively.