Mr. Gregory Hutto recently retired from 47 years’ service to the Defense Department.  Mr. Hutto originated the role of Chief Operations Analyst (OA) for the Air Force Test Center at Center, Wing, Group and Squadron levels, though not in the conventional sequence.  Eglin’s 96 Test Wing comprises 4800 people in 21 Squadrons running the largest test range in the free world and executing more than 500 test projects per year. As Chief OA, he was responsible for embedding tools from Operations Research including simulation, optimal scheduling, data analytics and designed experiments.  In cooperation with the Air Force Graduate School - AFIT, Greg designed and taught an extensive series of short courses in statistical experimental design open to all testers in the DOD.  Prior to his AFMC work, Mr. Hutto served for 6 years as the original Chief Ops Analyst
for ACC’s 53d Wing, responsible for the technical excellence of more than 250 tests per year, spanning the entire range of USAF tactical combat systems.  In the 53d Wing, he was mentor and functional lead for more than 70 OAs and 250 engineers.   As a LtCol in the USAF Reserves, he served as senior military advisor to AF Operational Test & Evaluation Center Test Support Director at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, and as special advisor for test design to the AF Flight Test Center commander at Edwards AFB, California.  He taught experimental design at the USAF Test Pilot School from 2004-2007.  Prior to his government service, Mr. Hutto was the Chief Scientist for Ops Research in Jacobs Inc. 600-scientist TEAS Contract.  He has also done substantial work in systems engineering, austere air force basing, studies and analysis, nuclear survivability, and military exercise design and evaluation. 

Mr. Hutto is a distinguished graduate of the US Naval Academy in Operations Research and Engineering and holds a Master’s in the same field from Stanford University.  Over the past 40+ years, he has served in nearly every branch of test and evaluation from basic laboratory science to joint operational field testing.  He would like to formally repent of his 10 years of testing without the benefits of the principles of well-designed experiments. 

His professional service includes Working and Composite Group Chairs for the Military Operations Research Society (MORS), MORS Tutorials Lead (4 years), Greg led two MORS Special Sessions (New Sciences (2004) and Test and Analysis Techniques (2012)). He served on the MORS Board of Directors 2007-2011 and has authored more than 40 conference papers and 6 peer-reviewed journal articles.  He has taught hundreds of short courses in experimental design.  Mr. Hutto is an adjunct
professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering for the University of Arkansas
where he teaches Design of Experiments, Quality Management, Project Management, Cost Modeling, Leadership, and Operations Research.  Among other accolades, he holds the Soren Bisgaard Award for most influential paper published in Journal of Quality Engineering and the Civilian Exceptional Service Decoration, the highest nonvalorious civilian recognition granted by the Secretary of the Air Force.

Mr. Hutto is married to the former Debra Jean Steinkerchner of Nashville, Tennessee and they have two children, Daniel and Ariel. He is inordinately proud of Dr. Debra Hutto, (her sixth earned degree), and never tires of being referred to as “Daniel’s or Ariel's Dad.” Both children make livings in the sky; one serves martinis & the other serves mayhem. Daniel is a USAF bombardier-navigator in F-15E Strike Eagle and Ariel is putting her BS degree in Anthropology to good use as a Delta Airlines Flight Attendant.