Senior Director
Training, Learning, & Readiness Division

“Exceptional performance is accomplished through an understanding of underlying human psycho-social mechanisms, achieved through systematic data collection and sound scientific analyses.”

Kent manages a portfolio of research projects for a variety of DoD agencies, such as the Air Force Research Laboratory and the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency. He leverages expert socio-technical problem solving skills across a variety of operational domains (e.g., military pilots, infantry soldiers, intelligence analysts) at multiple levels of analysis (e.g., individuals, teams, organizations) and research perspectives (e.g., perceptual, cognitive, behavioral, process, system) to improve Warfighter performance.

Kent holds a B.S. from the U.S. Air Force Academy, an M.S. from the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Florida.