Brian S Abbe

Booz Allen Hamilton Senior Vice President Brian Abbe co-leads the firm’s Rapid Prototyping and Platform Integration (RPPI) initiative within the Strategic Innovation Group with a focus on research and development programs within the Army C4ISR business. Mr. Abbe has helped clients solve some of the toughest problems facing warfighters, such as defeating improvised explosive devices and triangulating enemy combatant signals. Previously, he was a the senior leader of the firm’s Army Communications, Command and Control, Computers, Intelligence Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) business located within the Red Bank, NJ office. He played a wide variety of roles of increasing responsibility across the portfolio of indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contracts including Technology Engineering Fabrication Operations Support (TEFOS), Engineering Technology Operations Support Service (ETOSS), Technology Engineering Support Service (TESS), Strategic Servicing Sources (S3), and Rapid Reaction Third Generation (R23G), all directly supporting the war efforts in Southwest Asia. He was responsible for building a number of electronic intercept and electronic attack systems that are currently being used in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mr. Abbe joined Booz Allen in 1998 as an Associate, and has over 22 years of professional experience in Intelligence Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR), mobile satellite and wireless system technologies and networks. Prior to joining Booz Allen, Mr. Abbe worked for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, CA. While at JPL, Mr. Abbe helped develop a wide variety of mobile satellite and wireless technologies and systems including early, research and development versions of satellite television (e.g., DirecTV), satellite radio, and many of the emerging wireless internet technologies. Mr. Abbe holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Rutgers University College of Engineering and an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Rutgers University Graduate School. He has published more than two dozen conference and journal technical articles in his career.