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Appendix C: Biographical Information for Planning Committee Members
Pages 97-102

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... He also served as the chief technology officer responsible for innovation and the introduction of market-leading capabilities. During his 36-year career in the USAF and subsequent experience in industry, he led multiple large-scale, complex procurement activities, each dependent upon strong ethics and solid research foundation.
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From page 98...
... He also received the Technical Achievement and Meritorious Service Awards from the IEEE Computer Society. At the University of Maryland, he was elected as a distinguished faculty research fellow, as a distinguished scholar-teacher, received the outstanding Faculty Research Award and the Poole and Kent Teaching Award for the Senior Faculty from the College of Engineering, an Outstanding Innovator Award from the Office of Technology Commercialization and an Outstanding GEMSTONE Mentor Award.
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... He was an Air Force officer at Kirtland Air Force Base from 1970 to 1972, performing plasma research. He began his civilian career at Los Alamos National Laboratory, establishing its intense particle beam research program.
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... and the USAF; a policy analyst for the Secretary of the Air Force; senior advisor for air and space issues, for the Air Force's Directorate for Security, Counterintelligence, and Special Programs; special advisor for aerospace technology, for the Air Force Chief Scientist; and was a founding trustee of Florida Polytechnic University. He also serves as a research associate in aeronautics for the National Air and Space Museum and is a member of the executive committee of the U.S.
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... At NASA Marshall Space Flight Center from 1960 to 1965, he was involved with the development of the Saturn Booster guidance system and Apollo mission analyses. He consulted on the Space Shuttle Program with the NASA Johnson Space Center during the period 1970–1979, where he developed a methodology for optimizing the temperature constrained shuttle reentry trajectory.
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... Prior to the merger of Rockwell International with Boeing he was vice president and associate center director of the Systems Development Center, which focused the corporation's resources on new high technology advanced concepts requiring the skills of many divisions. He had joined Rockwell in 1977 as vice president, engineering of the Aerospace Operations in leadership positions of programs such as the Space Shuttle, Global Positioning System, Ballistic Missile Defense, and the B1B strategic aircraft.
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