As the Associate Principal Investigator for Enabling Avionics (EA), Dr. Neece is responsible for leading the investigation and evolution of a comprehensive cockpit subsystem that enables robust detection of external hazards with sufficient time-to-alarm for safe maneuvering to avoid the hazards, that automates hazard detection and monitoring, and that communicates with other cockpit and aircraft systems to support alerting/warning or other automated responses to hazards.

Dr. Neece has been investigating sensor technology for aviation since 1991. From 1994 until 1999, he was the Project Manager for the Wake Vortex Radar, an investigation and development of radar capabilities for wake vortex detection in the terminal area. In 1999, Dr. Neece joined the Aviation Weather Information project and worked in a variety of roles until its completion in 2006. From 1999 through 2002, he was the Principle Investigator for NASA in a Cooperative Research Agreement with Rockwell Collins, the Enhanced Weather Radar. In 2000, Dr. Neece became involved in the development of turbulence detection capabilities for airborne radar and worked as a lead researcher in the Turbulence Prediction and Warning System project until 2003. Subsequently he performed as a researcher in the Tropospheric Airborne Meteorological Data Reporting project from 2003 to 2005.

In 2005 and 2006, Dr. Neece became involved in planning for the new NASA Aeronautics Program under ARMD. As planning for Aeronautics reached a conclusion and preparations were made to start, he accepted the position of Associate Principle Investigator. Dr. Neece has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University.