Dr. Kaitlynn Castelle is an Associate Research Engineer in the Acquisition & Industrial Security mission area. She joins us from the defense contracting industry, where she has served as a Data Scientist and agile product manager supporting the COLUMBIA Submarine Program Office. Her high visibility work in life cycle analysis leveraging Monte Carlo simulation supported investments in advanced construction in the Submarine Industrial Base. She is a co-founder and Program Manager of the Navy’s Project Blue digital engineering innovation cell, focused on advancing life cycle capabilities in support of the sea-based strategic deterrence mission in collaboration with other DoD programs. Prior to her work in the defense sector, she served as an adjunct faculty member at Old Dominion University.
FCW/NextGov Fed100 Award, 2022
Woman Engineer Magazine, Winter 2021/2022
DON Recognition for contributions in DevSecOps
Amentum Employee Recognition in Sustainment, Engineering and Acquisition
Castelle, K.M., Beninger, M., Bradley, J.B., Gupta, S. (2020). Private Shipyard Contracting Agility to Improve Fleet Operational Availability. Naval Engineers Journal.
Baker, W., Castelle, K. M., Bradley, J. M., and Marino, L. C. “Design for sustainment: Governance engineering in major acquisition programs”. en. In: Naval Postgraduate School Acquisition Research Program, Mar. 2020
Baker, W., Nixon, S., Banks, J., Reichard, K., and Castelle, K. M. “Degrader Analysis for Diagnostic and Predictive Capabilities: A Demonstration of Progress in DoD CBM+ Initiatives”. In: vol. 168. Jan. 2020, pp. 257–264.
Castelle, K. M. (2017). An Investigation into Perceived Productivity and Its Influence on the Relationship Between Organizational Climate and Affective Commitment (Doctoral Dissertation). Old Dominion University. Proquest.
Castelle, K. M., & Jaradat, R. M. (2016). Development of an Instrument to Assess Capacity for Systems Thinking. Procedia Computer Science, 95, 80-86.
Whitney, K.M., Bradley, J.M., Baugh, D.E., & Chesterman, C.W. (2016). “Systems Theory as a Foundation for Governance of Complex Systems” for International Journal of System of Systems Engineering 7(1/2/3), 143-158.