Don Sofge is a Computer Scientist and Roboticist at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) with 33 years of experience (20 at NRL) in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Control Systems R&D. He leads the Distributed Autonomous Systems Group in the Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence (NCARAI), where he develops nature-inspired computing paradigms to challenging problems in sensing, artificial intelligence, and control of autonomous robotic systems. He has served as PI/Co-PI on dozens of federally-funded R&D efforts, and has more than 180 refereed publications (including 10 books) in robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, planning, sensing, control.