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Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
RAYMOND E. JOHNS JR., Co-Chair, is responsible for FlightSafety International’s global government and military programs. He began working with the company in 2013 as a senior advisor and was named senior vice president in January 2014. Before assuming his current role, Gen. Johns commanded the United States Air Force Air Mobility Command, Scott Air Force Base (AFB), Illinois. The mission of the Air Mobility Command is to provide rapid, global mobility, and sustainment for the U.S. armed forces. Gen. Johns graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1977. He has served as a program manager and source selection authority; an experimental test pilot, having flown some 83 different aircraft; and he was the chief test pilot and test program manager for the VC-25 Air Force One Replacement Program. He was chosen as a White House fellow in 1991, where he was a senior staff member in the Office of National Service. He served at Headquarters US European Command in security assistance, strategy, and congressional affairs and at Headquarters US Pacific Command as deputy director of strategic plans and policy. He commanded a test squadron, operations group, and airlift wing, and he was the director of mobility forces for operations in Bosnia and was responsible for strategic airlift operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Gen. Johns served as deputy chief of staff for strategic plans and programs, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C., where he developed, integrated, evaluated, and analyzed the U.S. Air Force annual budget and the Air Force Long-Range Plan to support national security objectives and military strategy. He retired from the U.S. Air Force effective January 1, 2013.
DONALD C. FRASER, Co-Chair, has broad research and development management experience and is the founder and retired director of the Boston University Photonics Center. Dr. Fraser has had a distinguished career managing the development of high technology enterprises, both in the private and public sectors. Dr. Fraser joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT’s) Instrumentation Laboratory (which became the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory in 1973) as a member of the technical staff; later he served as the director of the Control and Flight Dynamics Division; vice president of technical operations; and executive vice president and chief operating officer. From 1990 to 1991, Dr. Fraser was deputy director of operational testing and evaluation for command, control, communications, and intelligence at the Department of Defense (DoD). After Senate confirmation, he was appointed Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition) from 1991 to 1993. From 1994 to 2006, Dr. Fraser was the director of the Boston University Photonics Center and a professor of engineering and physics. His honors include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal. Dr. Fraser has served on the NASA Advisory Council. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, served on the National Research Council’s (NRC’s) Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board, chaired several NRC committees, and was a member of many other NRC committees. He received his Sc.D. in instrumentation from MIT.
ROBERT R. ALLARDICE founded Allardice™ Enterprises, Inc., in 2013 after successfully serving in the U.S. Air Force for more than 33 years, reaching the rank of Lieutenant General. With 16 years of senior executive experience and a remarkable record of achievement in the Air Force, Mr. Allardice is recognized as an innovative pioneer leading transformation in modern complex global systems. His experience leading organizations ranging from 100 to 133,000 people, culminated in the position of vice
commander of Air Mobility Command (AMC). In that capacity, he ran corporate oversight of a $20 billion operation with broad responsibilities from operations and training to programming, installation oversight, and financial management. Additionally, he sat on the U.S. Air Force Corporate Board and several operational governance boards. Prior to his duties at AMC, as commander of 18th Air Force, he led the U.S. military global air mobility enterprise through transformation and multiple global operations. His leadership of the military’s global air transportation system is credited with unique applications of virtual and collaborative tools redefining modern staffing methods and driving significant increases in effectiveness and efficiency. Prior experiences include oversight of the U.S. Central Command Security Assistance program for Central Asia, and the Mideast, working with 20 different countries to refine security cooperation agreements. Also, he led the team building the U.S. military strategy for the Mideast, Central Asia, and Persian Gulf. Additional recent experience includes command of the Coalition Air Force Transition Team in Iraq, where he successfully built a program to reestablish the Iraq Air Force. Mr. Allardice holds an M.S. in systems management from the University of Southern California.
JOHN-PAUL CLARKE is an associate professor in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, with a courtesy appointment in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and director of the Air Transportation Laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received S.B. (1991), S.M. (1992), and Sc. (1997) degrees in aeronautics and astronautics from MIT. His research and teaching in the areas of control, optimization, and system analysis, architecture, and design are motivated by his desire to simultaneously maximize the efficiency and minimize the societal costs (especially on the environment) of the global air transportation system. Dr. Clarke has made seminal contributions in the areas of air traffic management, aircraft operations, and airline operations—the three key elements of the air transportation system—and has been recognized globally for developing, among other things, key analytical foundations for the Continuous Descent Arrival and novel concepts for robust airline scheduling. His research has resulted in significant changes in engineering methods, processes, and products—most notably the development of new arrival procedures for four major U.S. airports and one European airport—and changes in airline scheduling practices. He is an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and a member of the Airline Group of the International Federation of Operations Research Societies, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, and Sigma Xi. His many honors include the AIAA/AAAE/ACC Jay Hollingsworth Speas Airport Award in 1999, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Excellence in Aviation Award in 2003, the National Academy of Engineering Gilbreth Lectureship in 2006, and the 37th SAE/AIAA William Littlewood Memorial Lecture Award (awarded in January 2012).
JOHN D.W. CORLEY is an experienced strategic thinker and skilled international collaborator in the development and utilization of weapons systems. He entered the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1973. His aviation career includes more than 3,000 flying hours with combat experience. He commanded at flight, squadron, group, wing, and major command levels. His staff positions comprised a mix of service and joint duties in Tactical Air Command, Pacific Air Forces, U.S. Air Forces Europe, Air Combat Command, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, and the Joint Staff. Gen. Corley retired from the U.S. Air Force after 36 years on active duty. His final assignment was commander, Air Combat Command (ACC). At ACC, he directed the planning, organizing and training to assure combat-ready forces for 156,000 personnel operating 1,200 aircraft at more than 200 worldwide locations. He orchestrated the development of strategy, doctrine, concepts, and procedures for air power employment. Previously, he served as vice chief of staff, U.S. Air Force, responsible for the oversight of 680,000 active-duty, Guard, Reserve, and civilian personnel serving in the United States and overseas. Other key staff positions included the following: principal deputy, assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition; military director, member of the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board; and director, studies and analysis, Headquarters U.S. Air Forces in Europe. Since retiring from active duty, Gen. Corley has become an independent consultant. He serves on several boards in addition to consulting for a number of defense and aerospace industry corporations. He served on the board of the Air Force Association to educate the
public about the critical role of aerospace power in the defense of our nation, advocate for aerospace power, and support the Air Force family and aerospace education. Additionally, he is a trustee of the Falcon Foundation, providing scholarship funding for promising young men and women aspiring to attend the U.S. Air Force Academy.
STEPHEN D. DETRO directs a team at Lockheed Martin in new business forecasting, business capture, and marketing activities focused on domestic and international simulation and training opportunities. Mr. Detro has more than 35 years as a business development executive representing companies and leading multi-disciplined teams providing simulation and training technologies and solutions for DoD and international Air Forces. He is a retired lieutenant colonel from the U.S. Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard, with 28 years total service with sustained combat mission ready status as a U.S. Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard fighter pilot, while maintaining a full-time civilian career. He is a combat mission-qualified pilot in the F-16A, F-4D, A-7D and F-100D fighter aircraft and a command fighter pilot with more than 2,300 hours and 4 years of enlisted service in aircraft maintenance. Mr. Detro is also currently protocol officer and conference chair emeritus for the Interservice/Industry, Training, Simulation and Education Conference and former chairman of the National Training and Simulation Association Executive Committee. Mr. Detro holds a B.S. in education from Wright State University.
PAMELA (PAM) DREW is executive vice president and president of information systems, a business area of Exelis, Inc., that is a leading provider of mission critical network solutions. These solutions leverage the group’s core capabilities that span the full life cycle of critical networks, including system architecture, design, development, deployment, integration, test and evaluation, operations, maintenance, sustainment, and modernization. These services are currently provided to U.S. government agencies, including the FAA, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), and the intelligence community; additionally, the business includes a growing commercial, global aviation presence. Before joining Exelis, Dr. Drew was the senior vice president of Strategic Capabilities and Technology at TASC, Inc., leading an enterprise-wide team that provided systems engineering and integration, cyber security, financial and business analytics, and test and evaluation solutions to intelligence, defense, and federal and civil customers. In a prior role at TASC, she led the Enterprise Systems business unit that served defense and federal civil agencies, including DTRA, the Department of Homeland Security, and the FAA. Prior to that, Dr. Drew was sector vice president of business development for Northrop Grumman’s Mission Systems sector. Before joining Northrop Grumman in 2008, she was vice president and general manager for Boeing’s Integrated Defense and Security Solutions organization heading strategy and business generation in homeland and global security markets. While at Boeing, Dr. Drew also served as vice president and general manager of Boeing’s C3ISR business unit serving the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, and several international customers including the United Kingdom, NATO, Australia, and Turkey. In a prior role, she led a significant portion of Boeing Phantom Works developing and transitioning technology across the commercial airplane and military businesses. Dr. Drew has held several leadership roles with NRC boards and committees, including as the vice chair of the Air Force Studies Board and on the “NextGen” Air Traffic Management committee for the Transportation Research Board. She also serves on the board of directors for University of Washington’s Applied Physics Laboratory. Dr. Drew has been named an associate fellow of AIAA. She also serves on the Strategic Advisory Councils to the Chancellor and Dean of Engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she earned her Ph.D. in computer science.
RICHARD V. REYNOLDS, General, U.S. Air Force (retired), is owner and principal of the VanFleet Group, LLC, an aerospace consulting company. He also serves as an independent/outside director for Allison Transmission Holdings, Inc.; Apogee Enterprises, Inc.; and Barco Federal Systems, LLC. He holds advisory board seats for Sierra Nevada Corporation and Electronic Warfare Associates-Government Systems, Inc. In a volunteer capacity, he has served as board chairman and CEO of the Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc., and as a member of the U.S. Air Force Heritage Program board of directors. In
2009-2011, he was chair of the NRC Committee on Evaluation of U.S. Air Force Preacquisition Technology Development and now serves on the Air Force Studies Board. Prior to his retirement in 2005, Gen. Reynolds was vice commander, Air Force Materiel Command. During his 34-years of active duty Air Force service, he commanded the Aeronautical Systems Center at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, and the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards AFB, California. He was also program executive officer, airlift and trainers in the Pentagon and program director for several major weapon system acquisitions, including the B-2 Spirit. Gen. Reynolds is a graduate of U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School, Class 79B, and has more than 25 years of hands-on experience in the research, development, program management, and test and evaluation of aeronautical systems. He holds FAA certificates for airline transport pilot and flight instructor (glider), and his logbook shows more than 4,000 flying hours in 72 different military and civil aircraft. Graduating in 1971 from the U.S. Air Force Academy with a B.S. in aeronautical engineering, Gen. Reynolds has an M.S. in mechanical engineering from California State University and an M.A. in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College. He is a fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots.
HARRY M. ROBINSON is the SimLEARN National Program Manager for the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Simulation Learning Education and Research Network (SimLEARN), which uses simulation-based clinical training for health-care providers and clinicians to increase and sustain workforce skills and improve veteran patient outcomes. As the hub for the VHA National Simulation Network, the SimLEARN National Simulation Center uses innovative and immersive training technologies in a safe learning environment to enhance diagnostic, procedural, and team communication skills to support quality care and the best possible quality of care. A veteran of the U.S. Navy, Mr. Robinson completed his active duty as the commanding officer of the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division leading over 1,100 personnel accomplishing full life-cycle acquisition of training solutions for the Navy. As a naval flight officer, he primarily flew the E-2C Hawkeye and commanded both an operational squadron and type wing. His combat experience includes strike, close air support, and air superiority missions over Iraq, Afghanistan, and the former Republic of Yugoslavia. Mr. Robinson retired at the rank of captain after 28 years of military service. Subsequently he was a senior associate with Booz Allen Hamilton, where he served as the Advanced Analytics Modeling and Simulation lead supporting Team Orlando, a collaborative alliance of governmental and nonprofit agencies, including DoD and the Veterans Administration, working to leverage simulation technology to improve employee performance. His focus was on providing live, virtual, and constructive simulation to support training solutions to improve human performance and accomplish individual and team training requirements. Mr. Robinson earned his commission through the Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps upon graduation from Pennsylvania State University in 1982 with a B.S. in computer science. He then earned an M.S. in aviation systems from the University of Tennessee and completed the Naval War College Command and Staff Course. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in modeling and simulation from Old Dominion University and completed a Medical Modeling and Simulation Certificate Program at the Naval Postgraduate School MOVES Institute.
MICHAEL J. ZYDA is a professor of engineering practice in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California. He also directs the university’s GamePipe Laboratory, which engages students in research and development of interactive games. He initiated two cross-disciplinary degree programs–a B.S. in computer science (games) and an M.S. in computer science (game development)—and doubled the incoming undergraduate enrollment of the Computer Science Department. Dr. Zyda is a pioneer in the fields of computer graphics, networked virtual environments, modeling and simulation, and serious games. His research interests include collaboration in entertainment and defense, and he has developed, for example, a game used by the Army for recruiting. He has served on numerous NRC committees advising DoD. Dr. Zyda is a national associate of the National Academies and a member of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences. He received a Ph.D. in computer science from Washington University.
