Mr. Knapp specializes in mechanical design, packaging, heat transfer, and hardening of electronic

systems. He began his seven-year career with Boeing, working initially in Seattle and then as a

member of Boeing's contingent at the Micro and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC) 

research consortium in Texas; he later joined Alliant Tech Systems near Seattle, which became 

Hughes and then Raytheon. During his seven years with Boeing, he worked on sonar systems, 

undersea acoustics systems, and embedded processors/VME. In 1999, he was a co-founder and 

partner in Teknologic LLC, based in Snohomish, Washington, where he designed rugged enterprise 

servers and a star-tracker camera.  Mr. Knapp joined Insitu in 2002 as a principal engineer, he has 

served as director of product engineering, and is currently chief engineer for the ScanEagle product

line.