Dr. Steven Dam

President and Chief Operating Officer

Steven H. Dam, Ph.D., ESEP, is the President and Founder of the Systems and Proposal Engineering Company, operating as SPEC Innovations, based in Manassas, VA. With over 40 years of experience in structured analysis, software development, and systems engineering, he participated in the development of the C4ISR Architecture Framework (now known as DoDAF), the Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA), and Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) architecture. 

Dr. Dam currently applies systems engineering techniques to various DoD, DOE, and commercial projects.

Dr. Dam is the author of four books focused on systems engineering, including his most recent publication, "Real MBSE: Model-Based Systems Engineering Using LML and Innoslate." He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from George Mason University and a PhD in Physics from the University of South Carolina. 

Dr. Dam is also an INCOSE-certified Expert Systems Engineering Professional (ESEP), an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and a member of both the Systems Engineering Technical Committee and the Digital Engineering Integration Committee. He currently serves as the Secretary of the Lifecycle Modeling Organization and has been a long-time member of the LML Steering Committee.