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B Committee Member Biographies
Pages 46-49

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... His interests include technology development and transfer to commercial use of power technologies for space and terrestrial applications. His areas of research include photovoltaics, lightweight space solar arrays, electrochemical energy storage, dynamic power systems, power management and distribution, free piston Stirling power systems, environmental durability, hypervelocity impact studies, high-power spacecraft concepts, and management of technology development programs.
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... INDERJIT CHOPRA is the Alfred Gessow Professor of Aerospace Engineering and director of the Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center at the University of Maryland. His studies include work on various fundamental problems related to aeromechanics of helicopters, including aeromechanical stability, active vibration control, modeling of composite blades, rotor head health monitoring, aeroelastic optimization, smart structures, micro air vehicles, and comprehensive aeromechanics analyses of bearingless, tilt-rotor, servo-flap, compound, teetering, and circulation control rotors.
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... and managed advanced technology programs for future strategic offensive and defensive systems. He became director of the Tactical Technology Office at DARPA and directed programs in air vehicle technology and observables, stealth aircraft, armored vehicle and antiarmor technology, undersea warfare technology, and sensor systems.
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... He has been active on many professional and government committees, including the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, the NRC Committee on Space Biology and Medicine, NASA's Life Science Advisory Committee, and the National Institutes of Health Training Committee on Biomedical Engineering. He has served on several NASA advisory panels relating to life sciences and the space station.
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