Automated Control System for Manufacturing Aircraft
From work modeling a commercial aircraft production system as a network of dependencies so it could be analyzed whole.
View patentSystems engineer · Aerospace & defense
Amanda
Chastain.
Systems thinking. Digital engineering.
I work on problems that don't sit inside one system, one discipline, or one organization.
Fourteen years in aerospace and defense, ten of them at Boeing — systems architecture, requirements, verification, and integration.
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ArchitectureRequirementsVerificationIntegration
Now
Systems Engineering Modernization Technical Lead
System Innovation · Supporting the Department of War
I find the engineering problems that cut across programs, work out what's driving them, and write the technical guidance that addresses them. I also lead two university research efforts on the government side.
Before
- The Aerospace Corporation2025–2026
- Sandia National Laboratories2024–2025
- Lockheed Martin2021
- The Boeing Company2013–2024
How I work
Model-based, because at this scale nothing else holds together — SysML, UAF, DoDAF, Cameo, DOORS. Simulation and software when the model has to run: AFSIM, Python, C++, MATLAB.
SysMLUAFDoDAFCameoDOORSAFSIMPythonC++MATLAB
The method follows the problem, not the other way around.
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Education
Master of Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Washington
Bachelor of Science, Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering
Purdue University