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Appendix A: Committee Member and Staff Biographies
Appendix A: Committee Member and Staff Biographies
Pages 69-76
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His numerous awards include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, the Astronautics Engineer of the Year from the National Space Club, the National Black Engineer of the Year Award, Honorary Doctor of Laws from New Mexico State University, and NASA's Distinguished Public Service Medal for serving on the President's Commission on Implementing the U.S. Space Exploration Policy.
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He is a former chair of the NRC Space Studies Board, and his prior NRC service also includes the Committee on Scientific Communication and National Security, the Committee on Fusion Science Assessment, the Committee on International Space Programs, the Air Force Physics Research Committee, and the Committee on Solar and Space Physics. JAY APT is Distinguished Service Professor in Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
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She is internationally recognized for her work in satellite and payload system acquisition, systems engineering, and system simulation. Her numerous awards include the National Intelligence Medallion, the Air Force Meritorious Civilian Service Medal for her service on the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, and the 2009 Black Engineer of the Year award.
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His NRC experience includes membership on the Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration (chair) , the Space Studies Board, the Committee on a New Science Strategy for Solar System Exploration (solar system exploration decadal survey)
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From 1993 to 1995, he served as principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for economic security and special assistant to the deputy secretary of defense for dual-use technology policy. Prior to his service at the Department of Defense, he spent 11 years as a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution.
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He served as commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson AFB and as the Air Force technology executive officer and as vice commander of the Aeronautical Systems Center. He held assignments at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center, and the North American Aerospace Defense Command.
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Dr. Vonder Haar is also director of the Center for Geosciences, a Department of Defense–sponsored research center that focuses on the study of weather patterns and how they affect military operations, including investigations of fog, cloud layering, cloud drift winds, and dynamics of cloud persistence as detected from satellites.
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VICTORIA SWISHER, research associate, joined the SSB in 2006. She has supported studies and workshops on the Beyond Einstein program, NASA workforce, Mars research, research enabled by the lunar environment, ITAR, and other topics.
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