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Appendix D: Biographies of Committee Members and Staff
Appendix D: Biographies of Committee Members and Staff
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John is vice president for the California Division at Sandia National Laboratories. The principal programs of the division, located in Livermore, California, include nuclear weapons stewardship; weapons demilitarization; chemical/biological weapons defense; combustion and materials research; advanced lithography and Microsystems development; microchemical/-biological and remote laser-based chemical detection; and distributed, secure, advanced computational and information systems.
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from Pepperdine University and his Ph.D. from Walden University; he attended the Kennedy School of Government general officer program, National and International Security for Senior Executives, at Harvard University.
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Mr. Finger's areas of expertise are in defense science and technology; military operations and organization; technologies for peace operations, law enforcement, and operations other than war; humanitarian demining and countermine technologies; conventional weapons systems, including the areas of lethality and survivability; ordnance engineering; propellant chemistry; electronic combat; weapons effects; munitions target interactions; chemistry of explosives; hydrodynamics, detonation physics, explosives equations of state; explosives safety and initiation; high-speed optics and electronic diagnostics; computer simulation and prediction of high explosives performance; and intelligence assessments and emergency response teams.
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Higgs, a physicist by training, include the application of lasers for non-lethal weapon technologies. At MIT/IL, he has conducted extensive research in laser radar for both imaging targets and atmospheric measurements, including the development of electro-optical systems, theoretical investigations of the basic physics of laser propagation, and experiments ranging from smallscale laboratory measurements to large-scale field measurements.
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Krygiel is an independent consultant. She recently completed an assignment as a visiting fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University, where she wrote a book on large-scale system integration.
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Before joining the National Security Council staff as assistant to the president for the Middle East and South Asia in January 1987, Ambassador Oakley became a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from September to December 1986. After his retirement as ambassador to Pakistan in September 1991, he became associated with the U.S.
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General Van Riper's long and distinguished military career included command of ground combat units; he is familiar with all aspects of Marine Corps operations. Several of his career highlights include being the first president of the Marine Corps University; Deputy Commander for Training and Education; Assistant Chief of Staff, Command, Control, Communications, and Computers; Director of Intelligence, Headquarters Marine Corps; and Commanding General, Second Marine Division.
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in mechanical engineering from Vanderbilt University in 1995; his doctoral research was conducted at the Naval Research Laboratory, where he used an atomic force microscope to measure the nanomechanical properties of thin film materials. In parallel with his duties as a graduate student, Dr.
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