John Quartuccio
Naval Postgraduate School
Mr. John Quartuccio is a PhD student within the Department of Systems Engineering at the
Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. Mr. Quartuccio has over 34 years of
engineering acquisition experience, serving as a civilian for the U.S. Navy. Positions have
included systems engineering and human systems engineering, delivering products within naval
aviation domains. Research interests include behavior analysis, systems of systems architectures,
model-based systems engineering, with the current emphasis on deriving patterns within system
architectures. He has recently published two IEEE papers on these topics. He has a B.S. degree
in Mechanical Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University and a M.S. degree in
Applied Mechanics from Lehigh University. He is currently employed at the Systems
Engineering Department of the Naval Air Systems Command / Naval Air Warfare Center /
Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Maryland