Allen Olston

Commissioned in 1965 via U of Idaho ROTC, went on active-duty 1967 after completion of MBA degree at Washington State U. I was a distinguished military graduate of U of I and in the top 10% of my class.

Assigned to US Air Force Systems Command Electronic Systems Division – LG Hanscom Field, Bedford, MA (adjacent to MIT Lincoln Labs).

I also taught evening classes in statistics at Northeastern University in Boston while on active duty.

System Program Management Officer (in the Configuration Management office) (Captain, USAF).

• Managed development and acquisition of operations and support documentation and monitored hardware configuration compliance for a newly designed strategic Over The Horizon Radar System being developed and implemented by Raytheon Corp and other companies. Mission was to monitor Russian missile launches and atomic tests.
• Negotiated and managed contracts with Raytheon and other companies, with the Air Defense Command and USAF Logistic command (responsible for operation and maintenance of the system when it went live.)
• Led engineering teams to verify and correct documentation and to verify hardware configuration at the contractors’ plants and on the radar transmitter site in Japan.
• I left the USAF after 4 years and taught as an Instructor at WSU College of Business and Economics for a year. Then I joined Hewlett-Packard and managed the design, development and implementation of international information systems for 35 years.