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Appendix C: Biographies of Committee Members
Pages 180-186

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... He had previously served as the initial program executive officer for the Joint Advanced Strike Technology Program (now designated the Joint Strike Fighter Program)
From page 181...
... He was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in 1998. He has received numerous awards, including the Outstanding Engineer and Scientist Award from the Affiliates Society Council of Dayton, the Materials Laboratory Cleary Award for Scientific Advancement, the Materials Laboratory Schwartz Award for Engineering Excellence, the Materials Directorate Management Excellence Award, and the 2002 Meritorious Executive Presidential Rank Award.
From page 182...
... He has received several awards, including six campus-wide faculty excellence awards, two teaching awards, and a prestigious CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. He was elected a fellow of the American Ceramic Society in 2007.
From page 183...
... Kolk Air Transportation Progress Award and the Royal Aeronautical Society British Gold Medal and has been associated with five Collier Trophy-winning programs. He has served on the Aerospace Industries Association Technical Council and chaired its Civil Aviation Division.
From page 184...
... . She has served on the National Institute of Standards and Technology Materials Evaluation Board and on the organizing committee of the National Space and Missile Materials Symposium, and she currently serves on the Evaluation Board for Materials Sci ence and Technology at the Sandia National Laboratories and the Advisory Board for Ceramic Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology.
From page 185...
... He holds a BS from the University of New Mexico, an MS in mechanical engineering from the University of Wyoming, and a PhD in gas dynamics and laser physics from the Air Force Institute of Technology. His expertise is in military acquisition and procurement, aerospace engineering, space science, government technical program management, physics, thermodynamics, propulsion and combustion, orbital mechanics, aerodynamics, reentry heating and thermal protection materials, surface chemistry, and aero-optics.
From page 186...
... Air Force as a major general, with his last assignments at the National Reconnaissance Office as the director for systems engineering and as the director of advanced systems and technology. General Latiff was a career acquisition officer, managing large, complex systems such as the Cheyenne Mountain Complex, the Air Force's airspace manage ment and landing systems, and the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System ( JSTARS)


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