Education
Richard joined The Boeing Company in 1981 while a student at M.I.T. and performed his Master’s thesis work developing techniques for evaluating highly reliable systems at Boeing in Philadelphia during the summer and fall of 1983
senior vice president of research and founder of coretrace corporation
Richard joined The Boeing Company in 1981 while a student at M.I.T. and performed his Master’s thesis work developing techniques for evaluating highly reliable systems at Boeing in Philadelphia during the summer and fall of 1983
Richard remained at Boeing and led research and development projects in advanced system architectures, artificial intelligence algorithms, computer aided engineering tools, and Higher Harmonic active vibration control systems.
In 1986 he was named Project Engineer for the flight control system for the Army’s RAH-66 Comanche helicopter, and led the project team through successful completion of detailed System Design Review.
Early in 1990 he was named Program Manager for a Boeing sponsored R&D program that developed a flight critical fly-by-light vehicle management system for use in rotorcraft and commercial and military aircraft. The team also developed reusable software components written in assembly language, C, and Ada.
Richard became Manager of helicopter Health and Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS) and Vehicle Management Systems (VMS) Research in 1993. He was responsible for strategic business planning, acquisition, and execution for those areas. His groups acquired and executed contracts with both US and foreign customers. Tasks included system requirements definition, proposal preparation, subcontract management, customer support, and staff management. Richard was a named a member of several US and European technical committees at that time. One of his groups developed a graphical autocoder for use in flight safety critical software, which is being used for the V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor and the AH-64 Apache. He was the chief architect of HUMS open architecture standards which are being adopted worldwide. He left Boeing in 2000. In May 2000 his brother Daniel Teal and he founded CoreTrace.