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Appendix E: Committee and Staff Biographies
Pages 70-74

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From page 70...
... , where she leads independent and objective studies and analyses in space technology, strategy, and policy for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the National Space Council, NASA, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Federal Aviation Administration, and other federal agencies and departments. She is also serving on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration FACA Advisory Committee on Remote Sensing, as well as on the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR)
From page 71...
... Dr. Bement holds an engineer of metallurgy degree from the Colorado School of Mines, a master's degree in metallurgical engineering from the University of Idaho, a doctorate in metallurgical engineering from the University of Michigan, and honorary doctorates from Cleveland State University, Case Western Reserve University, Colorado School of Mines, University of Idaho, Michigan Technological University, Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and University of Macau, and he is an honorary professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Graduate School.
From page 72...
... From 1992 to 1995, he was a JPL Intergovernmental Personnel Act employee to the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, where he acted as the deputy program manager for the DOD/NASA Clementine Lunar Mission and program manager for the Clementine InterStage Adapter Satellite, for which he was awarded NASA's Medal for Exceptional Engineering Achievement. From 1985 to 2011, he served as the chief technologist for the Office of Safety and Mission Success.
From page 73...
... He was co-investigator on the NASA Solar, Anomalous, and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer, the NASA/ESA Ulysses mission, the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, and was an instrument investigator on the NASA Advanced Composition Explorer spacecraft. He is currently principal investigator of a high-energy proton spectrometer for the NASA Radiation Belt Storm Probes mission.
From page 74...
... His previous and current activities at the National Academies includes work as a study director for: Materials Needs and R&D Strategy for Future Aerospace Propulsion Systems; Corrosion Research Grand Challenges; Opportunities in Protection Materials; Optics and Photonics, Essential Technologies for Our Nation; Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative; Airport Passenger Screening; and Backscatter X-Ray Machines. He also has overseen workshops such as Big Data in Materials Research and Development; Limited Affordable Low-Volume Manufacturing; Materials and Manufacturing Capabilities for Sustaining Defense Systems; New and Novel Processes that are on the Verge of Industrial Modernization.


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