Dr. Daniel Butts is a materials engineer with over 20 years of industry experience focused on the development, evaluation, and manufacturing maturation of high-temperature materials for propulsion and hypersonic applications. His hands-on manufacturing experience encompasses coatings and net-shape structures formed via atmospheric plasma spray (APS), vacuum plasma spray (VPS), cold spray (CS), and electrochemical deposition methods. Daniel has a concentrated background in the machinability, structural capability, and thermochemical behavior of refractory metals and their associated carbides, nitrides, borides, and oxides. Daniel has served as the program manager on >70 high-temperature materials programs funded by DoD and industry. At MACH-20, Daniel serves as a materials, manufacturing, and ground test SME for DARPA DSO & TTO, Missile Defense Agency, and the Air Force Research Laboratory. Daniel’s actively maintained network within the DoD, industry, academia, and non-profits fosters collaboration and synergistic technology advancement.
