Henry Judd

Mr. Judd has over 45 years of experience in computer information systems, large-program project management, systems engineering, and mission-critical software development — including more than 35 years of direct support to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His career spans project manager for the Jason Ground System, principal system and software engineer across a portfolio of NASA JPL satellite missions, and chief executive of a long-standing federal small-business contractor. Mr. Judd is CEO and co-founder of Alethium Corp, which he co-founded in March of 2002 alongside Richard Wissinger. Through Alethium Corp he has continued to lead the company's contributions to NASA JPL satellite ground systems for over two decades — including Jason-2 and Jason-3, WISE / NEOWISE, ASTERIA, and SPHEREx — while guiding the company's technical strategy and federal-contracting growth.

Mr. Judd led the team that designed, developed, tested, and delivered the approximately 1.2 million-line Jason-1 satellite ground system. He designed the overall hardware/software architecture for the JTCCS (Jason-1 Telemetry, Command, and Communications System) and delivered the entire system on schedule and under budget. The JTCCS was awarded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Software of the Year award in 2002 and Honorable Mention for the 2002 NASA Software of the Year; Mr. Judd is a co-recipient with the JTCCS team of both. He is also a recipient of JPL's Meritorious Service Award and the NASA Meritorious Achievement award.

Under Mr. Judd's leadership as CEO, Alethium Corp serves as a direct prime contractor to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and has contributed to JPL satellite ground systems for over two decades — not as a subcontractor through any other firm. The company was awarded JPL's Supplier Trust and Recognition (STAR) certificate and was named JPL Small Vendor of the Year for FY23. Alethium Corp is a SAM.gov-registered federal contractor (UEI HNF1JXGKW5P7, NAICS 541511 — Custom Computer Programming Services) — its direct-award contract status with JPL is verifiable on SAM.gov.

Mr. Judd was responsible for bringing the US Navy SFTS project to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Successfully gathered and defined the functional requirements for the SFTS and published the Functional Requirements Document (FRD). Designed the overall architecture for the implementation of the SFTS.

Mr. Judd was an independent consultant performing as senior system software engineer and cognizant design engineer at JPL on the US Air Force Global Decision Support System (GDSS). Principal designer of three major GDSS subsystems in the areas of command and control, logistics support and management briefing systems. Mr. Judd Successfully designed, managed and implemented the logistics command and control systems for GDSS. Designed and implemented the management briefing system (MBS) for GDSS. Designed and implemented the relational database for GDSS and MBS. Awarded Meritorious Achievement Award from the US Air Force Military Airlift Command (MAC) and JPL.