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Dr. Jarret Lafleur is an engineer and systems analyst in the Strike and Aerospace Systems Center at Sandia National Laboratories. In this center and his prior assignment to the Homeland Security and Defense Systems Center, he has conducted research related to defense systems and multi-attribute decision analysis, spanning topics of system performance, cost, strategic risk, and security. From 2016-2018, Dr. Lafleur also served as Senior Technical Advisor on Nuclear Weapons Council matters to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear and Missile Defense Policy.
Dr. Lafleur earned his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2012, focusing on the conceptual design and analysis of manned and unmanned spacecraft and space programs, with an emphasis on techniques for integrating flexibility into space system design decisions. He has also engaged in engineering work at the U.S. Naval Undersea Warfare Center, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA White Sands Test Facility, and NASA Johnson Space Center. Dr. Lafleur was an Astronaut Scholar at Georgia Tech from 2005-2007.