Chief Operating Officer
Stephen Cayson is the current COO and joined CFD Research in August, 2015 bringing almost thirty years serving in leadership, technology development, program management, and system engineering roles, for government organizations and commercial businesses, in the high-technology aerospace and defense industry. Experience includes twenty-five years as a Department of Army Civilian at the Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center (AMRDEC) and the Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) on Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. Effective leadership, strategic thinking, and communication skills are supported by a strong foundation of technology development, testing, and system engineering for missile and space systems. Mr. Cayson holds a Master’s Degree in Engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville and a B.S. Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Mississippi State University.