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= Lawrence D. Stone =

Dr. Stone joined Metron in 1986. He became Chief Operating Officer in 1990 and Chief Executive Officer in 2004. In 2010 he returned to primarily technical work as Senior Manager at Metron. His technical work has included modeling the operational Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) effectiveness of nonacoustic sensors and developing tactical decision aids for ASW search and localization. He was the technical and project manager for the development of a multiple-target, nonlinear, correlator-tracker, NodeStar, designed for use in the Navy’s Integrated Underwater Surveillance System. NodeStar was later adapted for use aboard Los Angeles class submarines. He is the designer of the Likelihood Ratio Detection and Tracking (LRDT) system for multistatic active sonar detection and tracking. He is a major technical contributor to Metron’s XMAP track-to-track association system as well as the U. S. Coast Guard’s Search and Rescue Optimal Planning System (SAROPS) which went into operation 2007. He is a coauthor of the 1999 book, Bayesian Multiple Target Tracking and continues to work on a number of detection and tracking systems for the U. S. Navy and Coast Guard.

The Operations Research Society of America awarded the Lanchester Prize to Dr. Stone's book, Theory of Optimal Search, as the best work in operations research in 1975. Dr. Stone was codirector of the 1979 NATO Advance Research Institute on Search Theory and Applications and coeditor of the conference proceedings, "Search Theory and Applications." He has published numerous papers in search theory and participated in many search operations. He has also published papers in probability theory, optimization, and data fusion. In 1986, he produced the probability maps used by the Columbus America Discovery Group to locate the S.S. Central America which sank in 1857, taking an estimated three tons of gold coins and bars to the ocean bottom one and one-half miles below.

In 1999 Dr. Stone was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. He is a fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science. In 2008 he was awarded the. J. Steinhardt Prize for outstanding contributions to Military Operations Research by the Military Applications Society.

Dr. Stone worked at Daniel H. Wagner, Associates from 1967 until 1986. While employed at Wagner Associates, he rendered seven weeks on-scene assistance to the U.S. Navy in the 1974 search for unexploded ordnance in the Suez Canal. He participated in the development of the Coast Guard's computerized search and rescue planning program, CASP. During the 1968 search for the remains of the submarine Scorpion, Dr. Stone provided on-scene analysis assistance for six weeks near the Azores.