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Annex H Committee and Research Team Bios
Pages 63-77

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... He is the author of Defense Conversion: Transforming the Arsenal of Democracy, MIT Press, 1995; Affording Defense, MIT Press, 1989, and The Defense Industry, MIT Press, 1990. He has published numerous articles in Foreign Affairs, Harvard Business Review, International Security, Public Affairs, and other journals as well as newspapers and through the proceedings of Congressional hearings.
From page 64...
... From 1995-2000, he was the Program Manager for the Defense Department's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which provides over a half-billion dollars each year to small technology companies to develop new commercial/military technologies.
From page 65...
... She is the chairman of the Public and Scientific Affairs Board of the American Society for Microbiology; a member of the Institute of Medicine; has served as an advisor on infectious diseases and indirect costs of research to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and has been an invited participant in numerous Congressional hearings and briefings related to infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, and biomedical research. She has served on several editorial boards of scientific journals and has authored over 250 articles and book chapters.
From page 66...
... Dr. Gabriel spent most of the year 1994 at the United States Senate Appropriations Committee, working as one of three majority professional staff members for the Subcommittee on VA, HUD and Independent Agencies, chaired by Senator Barbara Mikulski.
From page 67...
... In 1982 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering and was cited for "leadership in the application of electronics to the automobile to enhance its mechanical performance." He has been a member of a number of National Research Council (NRC) study committees, including "National Interests in an Age of Global Technology", "Safety Research for a Changing Highway Environment","Engineering as an International Enterprise", "Competitiveness of the US Automotive Industry" and "Time Horizons and Technology Investments".
From page 68...
... Mr. Jones holds many patents, has lectured and authored numerous papers on automotive electronics, occupant safety, fuel cells and international human resource management.
From page 69...
... Nutritional products include nutritional oils for infant formula, dietary supplementation and other products. Advanced Detection Systems products include fluorescent dyes from various algae for use in scientific applications for detection of certain biological processes.
From page 70...
... Luna has 200+ working the technology sector in biotechnology, nanomaterials, optical fiber telecommunications and instrumentation, and control and predictive based maintenance as well as other key technologies of the future. Luna Innovations has licensed patents from Virginia universities, government labs, and large industrial partners, and is ranked second only to GM in industrial-funded research at Virginia Tech.
From page 71...
... Taylor served in the Senior Executive Service in a variety of executive management positions at NASA. He brings extensive program/project experience having managed over $1 billion in contracts and grants for systems engineering, information systems, facilities management, and technical and administrative services as a member of the International Space Station program, which included Japan, Canada and the European 71
From page 72...
... He earned an A.B. in Business Administration from Wilmington College, and has served as Adjunct Professor for numerous technology transfer/commercialization courses.
From page 73...
... He has participated in national and international conferences on science and technology policy issues and is a regular participant in the Scientific Workforce Project sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research and Alfred P Sloan Foundation.
From page 74...
... agencies and SBIR awardees, he conducted a two-year survey and interview study of the entire federal SBIR program for the Small Business Administration (SBA)
From page 75...
... She has more than 60 publications, including an economics textbook; has served on editorial boards, most recently as economics editor of Macmillan's Encyclopedia of Energy; and has served on advisory and steering committees, such Harvard University's advisory committee for a study of technical risk management, and the Department of Energy's steering committee for benefits estimation. A former member of the Federal Senior Executive Service, Ruegg received both the Department of Commerce's Gold and Silver Medal Awards, and also the Institute of Industrial Engineers' 2001 Wellington Award for contributions to the field of engineering economics.
From page 76...
... He is also an associate editor of the Journal of Productivity Analysis and recently co-edited a special issue of Small Business Economics on "Policies to Promote Innovation and Entrepreneurship in a Knowledge-Based Economy: Evidence from the U.S. and U.K." In 2003-2004, he will be coediting special issues of the International Journal of Industrial Organization on the "Economics of Intellectual Property at Universities", Structural Change and Economic Dynamics on the "Economics of Corporate Social Responsibility," and the Journal of Business Venturing on "Science Parks and Incubators." Dr.
From page 77...
... Stephan reviews regularly for the National Science Foundation and a number of academic journals including The American Economic Review, The American Sociological Review, Economic Inquiry, The Journal of Political Economy, and The Journal of Human Resources.


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