Around Tinker: Cutaran named Engineer of the Year Published Sept. 2, 2011 Tinker Public Affairs TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. -- Joseph E. Cutaran, a project engineer in the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center's Aerospace Sustainment Directorate, B-52 Sustainment Division, received the 2010 Air Force Science Technology and Engineering Dr. Paul G. Kaminski Most Promising Systems Engineer of the Year award during a ceremony at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, on Aug. 25. The award recognizes outstanding contributions to the United States Air Force in the area of Systems Engineering, within the construct of the acquisition process, and covers the timeframe from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2010. Mr. Cutaran's achievements included leading the engineering effort on the B-52's $38 million precision guided 1,760 weapon integration program. This program brings smart weapons into the B-52 weapon's bay and makes the platform more viable to a combatant commander. In particular, he transformed the Seek Eagle operational requirement into a Requirements Breakdown Matrix and finalized the System Requirement Document, Modification Airworthiness Certification Criteria, and System Engineering Plan for this program. Additionally, Mr. Cutaran led the engineering effort on the B-52's $40 million Alternative Mission Equipment and Software integration program. He executed a discipline engineering approach of requirements analysis, design, prototype, and qualification testing. Finally, Mr. Cutaran created an innovative use of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf technology for the B-52 Bomb Bay Camera. Using video from cameras mounted in the bomb bay, and captured on laptops in the crew compartment, this program eliminates a time consuming and dangerous task for crew to visibly check for hung stores in the bomb bay.