Dakota Kridler joined VSCL in January 2019. He is a Senior within the Department of Aerospace Engineering, pursuing a Bachelor of Science with a minor in Math. Also, he is a US Army veteran who served from 2012 to 2017 as an Infantryman during the Inherent Resolve Campaign. He is expected to graduate in May 2022. Dakota works to develop the air vehicle autonomy on the Agile Technology Development (ATD) – Air-Ground Coordinated Teaming project. When he is not conducting flight tests at VSCL, Dakota has completed many projects including Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) data collection with Robot Operating System (ROS) for system identification (SYSID), functional vehicle design for UAS autonomous landing on a moving platform, CAD modeling of an air vehicle and its parts, and real-time kinematic (RTK) sensor implementation that achieved millimeter-level positional accuracy.