Gary A Lantz is a highly adaptable and innovative aerospace engineer, experienced in all phases of vehicle development with broad knowledge of vehicle subsystems such as structures, propulsion, electronics, avionics, environmental controls, and thermal control. Lantz has been directly responsible for vehicle configuration, aerodynamics, performance and trajectories, configuration and data management as well as Safety and Mission Assurance and Systems Engineering processes and procedures based on general aviation, DoD, and NASA. He is a graduate of Oklahoma State University and has held several executive positions in his career. These include Director of Systems Engineering at Firefly Aerospace, President & CEO at MKF Interests, LLC, Board of Directors Member at Foundation for International Space Education and Sr Aerospace Engineer positions at Paragon Space Development Corporation and Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems among many others. He has a knack for bringing teams together in a time of crisis and putting out "fires" and provides short and long-term solutions that are cost-effective and easy to implement. Gary Lantz's strengths lie in reviewing and interpreting regulations and requirements.