Bio
Lieutenant Colonel Palmer has served over 15 years in the Air Force, commissioning via ROTC from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a B.S. degree in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. He was a Minuteman III operator, evaluator, Flight Commander, and Senior Instructor at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota. From there, he proceeded to Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, where he served as an Operational Test and Evaluation Officer and Flight Commander, directing various hardware, software, and operational flight tests of the Minuteman III ICBM. During this assignment he received a M.S. degree in Engineering from the University of Arkansas. Next, he was assigned to the Air Force Institute of Technology where he earned a PhD in Astronautical Engineering. Before joining the Academy faculty, he then served as Chief of the Emergent Arms Control Division at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
Education
PhD, Astronautical Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology
MS, Engineering, University of Arkansas
BS, Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Publications
Palmer, Everett B. IV, “Stochastic Satellite Air Drag with the Ballistic Coefficient as a Random Variable” (2021). Theses and Dissertations. 5091.
Palmer IV, Everett B., and William E. Wiesel. “Effects of Stochastic Drag on Prediction Variance for Low Earth Orbit Satellites.” Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics 45.2 (2022): 372-375.
Palmer IV, Everett B. “A Stochastic Drag Model for Improved Uncertainty Realism of Select LEO Orbit Predictions.” The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences 71.2 (2024): 17.