Kevin Wright, Sidorovich, Tom Hayes, Dennis Normyle and Ted Takacs stand in front of the old RTPS IV in an ATR project engineer station for a final picture before replacing the system with RTPS V in 2018.
Walt Sidorovich receives a Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award for his engineering and telemetry expertise and many contributions to improving the real-time telemetry processing capability used at the Atlantic Test Ranges, part of the NAWCAD DAiTA Group.
Kevin Wright, Sidorovich, Tom Hayes, Dennis Normyle and Ted Takacs stand in front of the old RTPS IV in an ATR project engineer station for a final picture before replacing the system with RTPS V in 2018.
Walt Sidorovich receives a Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award for his engineering and telemetry expertise and many contributions to improving the real-time telemetry processing capability used at the Atlantic Test Ranges, part of the NAWCAD DAiTA Group.
Walt Sidorovich, Investments Manager and Range Instrumentation Division Chief Engineer at the Atlantic Test Ranges, part of the NAWCAD DAiTA Group, was recently presented the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award. The award is bestowed upon DoN civilian employees for meritorious service or contributions resulting in high value or benefits for the Navy or Marine Corps.
As Investments Manager, Sidorovich is responsible for leading Investment & Modernization (I&M) projects at ATR. He oversees budget development, planning, preparation and presentations to managers and sponsors; works with project leads to validate data for decision briefs; coordinates with the NAWCAD Investment Lead and ensures comprehensive justifications are developed and prepared for sending up the Navy review chain for approvals.
As the Range Instrumentation Division Chief Engineer, he provides significant technical knowledge and engineering expertise to oversee the introduction of new systems and ongoing changes and upgrades to existing systems. He leads the ATR Change Review Board (CRB), which oversees proper configuration for numerous complex range systems to work in sync to support evolving flight test requirements of emergent naval aviation programs. The CRB provides a venue for various ATR branches and teams to share information and alert system stakeholders of changes that could affect mission support, and documents the location and capabilities of all fixed range assets.
Sidorovich began his government career in 1985, in what was then called the Range Directorate, after graduating from the Pennsylvania State University with an electrical engineering degree. Early in his career, he worked on the sustainment of the third-generation Real-time Telemetry Processing System (RTPS III), writing software to upgrade the system from the original mainframes to the next generation of hardware at the time—UNIX workstations. Following that effort, he helped develop the fourth iteration of RTPS, becoming the lead developer for the system in 1998.
Sidorovich was named Range Operations Division Chief Engineer in 2018. As such, he led two high-profile I&M projects, which greatly improved NAWCAD research, development, test and evaluation capabilities. He personally oversaw the in-house development, integration, and deployment of RTPS V, which greatly enhanced real-time processing and display; and he put together and led a multi-disciplined team from across ATR to coordinate the effort to populate the new P-155 Military Construction Project multipurpose, reconfigurable mission control rooms with the latest range systems, including RTPS V, to meet the future needs of major test programs.
Over the past 36 years, Sidorovich has contributed his significant knowledge of engineering and telemetry to develop and field new range systems. He is responsible for the steady improvement of the real-time telemetry processing capability used at ATR, providing his expertise for three RTPS upgrades; most notably the latest fifth-generation version of the system, which incorporates several critical capabilities.
