Robert Carman | TMPS Institute

Robert Lincoln Carman, JR

Vice President

Doctor Carman retired from Boeing (Rockwell) in 2003 as a Program Manager at Rocketdyne, having won two years of Rocketdyne President’s awards as well as numerous lesser awards within Boeing (Rockwell), He was hired into the CEO staff at Rockwell in 1984, but preferred to be a Program Manager looking at ways to reduce cost. He proved feasibility of the application of Lean, JIT processes at the extended enterprise level of a 4-tier supply chain for the Delta IV launch vehicle. reducing large component costs by 10-fold. Working with Satellite Systems Division, developed techniques to reduce cost of assembly integration and test of satellites by 25-30%, He also performed a discretionary funded demonstration that created and tested a booster engine; like the shuttle main engine using only 100 discrete parts and costing less than $500K, a 100-fold decrease, with a multi-company team of ten people.

Doctor Carman started Carman & Associates, a consulting company, in 2003 with the objective to contribute in domestic and global technical business strategy, program management, cutting edge business practices, business cultural change processes, techniques for understanding and managing complex businesses, and developing approaches which strengthen the people side of emerging organizations. Among others, customers include Borealis Exploration Limited and Boeing, developing an electric nose wheel for ground operations of aircraft, Price Waterhouse Coopers for developing a methodology to greatly improve program management, and then demonstrating benefit over 5 years for the South African military establishment, which then gained significant western outside contracts. In 2020, the Top 100 Registry named him “Man of the Year”. He also has received a dozen other significant awards since retiring.

Prior to 1984, Doctor Carman worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory (1974-1978) as a laser expert and on other special projects. Including one on the Director‘s office staff; Livermore National Laboratory, (1970-1974), where he ran the laser fusion program; MIT Lincoln Laboratory, (1964-1970), where he experimented with the second commercially sold laser, a ruby laser. While in High School, he worked in the summer at Brookhaven National Laboratory, built a Cyclotron for his high school, and lectured at Columbia University Graduate School.

Doctor Carman received his BA in 1962 at Adelphi University in New York, which he attended with a New York State Regents Scholarship, and a PhD in Physics in 1969 from Harvard University which je attended with a National Science Fellowship. He is a member of the American Physical Society and has published more than 100 articles in the Physics literature, co-authored several patents. He has lectured around the world as an invited speaker, including several keynote speakerships. He is also a contributing author to several books and participated in two DoD-JASON summer studies and several IDA studies.