Pat Dougherty

Dr. Pat Dougherty
Vice President, Strategic Planning & DoD Space

Dr. Pat Dougherty touts over 37 years of aerospace experience. Beginning with his program management experience at the Foreign Technology Division, his skill spans multiple leadership levels to include Deputy Director of Space Surveillance Division at Rome Laboratory and Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, where he was a PEM for more than $2.5B worth of SDIO sensor and spacecraft technology development programs.

Dr. Dougherty’s business development expertise encompasses more than 16 years of activities and a year as the acting Director (Advanced Systems) for Defense Systems at Ball Aerospace, leading the $64M win on the RAMOS program and $150M+ SBSS Capture Manager. His leadership roles and successful proposal pursuits at Ball include programs such as SBIRS Low, Orbital Express, GMI, Landsat and Ares I.

Currently, Dr. Dougherty is Vice President of Strategic Planning and DoD Space where he develops business opportunities and capture strategies for suppliers to DoD and NASA. Dougherty lends his expertise to clients as he guides them through a successful capture process, cultivating proposal strategies and executing them through red teams and delivery. Additionally, Dr. Dougherty teaches courses in Capture Management that provide new and seasoned capture managers techniques and methods to successfully posture their company to win major competitive programs. His course covers the capture process from identifying the initial opportunity to preparing for the release of the final request for proposal announcement by the customer.

Highly educated, Dr. Dougherty received a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wyoming in 1976, a Masters of Science in Systems Management from SUNY Marcy in 1992, a Ph.D. in Environmental Science from George Mason University in May 2001, and an MBA from SUNY Marcy in May 2006.

Dr. Dougherty retired from the Air Force in 1992 and has served on both government defense and civil source selection panels. His hobbies include landscape photography, running and hiking in the Rockies just west of his office in Louisville, Colorado.