Patrick Biltgen PhD

Patrick Biltgen is the Vice President of Space Mission Engineering at Booz Allen Hamilton. He previously served as the Director of Analytics and Data Services at Perspecta where he led research and development efforts for machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), modeling, and Internet-of-Things (IoT) capabilities. He also led the requirements development of a multi-INT data integration framework for NRO, contributed to the Persistence Mission Thread study, and was the technical lead for NGA’s 2016 Analysis-as-a-Service (AaaS) open source pilot tracking treaty violations during the Syrian Civil War (Syria Cessation of Hostilities Pilot Project). He served in a technical leadership role for data integration, predictive analytics, and distributed processing programs for multiple Government agencies. He was the keynote speaker at the AFCEA Alamo Conference and Exposition in 2019.

Dr. Biltgen spent six years at BAE Systems where, as the senior mission engineer, he worked with analysts from NGA/A and CIO-T on the development of Activity-Based Intelligence (ABI) and activity-modeling prototypes (Galaxy, Nebula, M111, SWAABI, Black Wolf, Wood, and Brimstone). In 2016, Dr. Biltgen published Activity-Based Intelligence: Principles and Applications, the first unclassified textbook on this contemporary intelligence tradecraft with decorated NGA analyst Stephen J. Ryan. In 2024, he released his second book, AI for Defense and Intelligence.

Prior to joining the Intelligence Community, he developed an approach to simultaneously optimize aircraft technology and tactics using AI a researcher in the Georgia Tech Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL).  Biltgen is a recipient of the INSA Edwin Land Industry Award, the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation Neil Armstrong Award of Excellence, and the National Intelligence Integration Award. Biltgen holds a bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.