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Appendix A: Biographies of Committee Members
Appendix A: Biographies of Committee Members
Pages 91-98
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Prior to founding NSI, Dr. Popp served for 5 years as a senior government executive within the Depart ment of Defense: 1 year at the Office of the Secretary of Defense as Assistant Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Advanced Systems and Concepts, where he oversaw a portfolio of Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration programs focused on information assurance, multilevel security, C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance)
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General Williams was Commander, Marine Aircraft Group 26, and deployed to Saudi Arabia to participate in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. His personal decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal with gold star; Legion of Merit with gold star; Bronze Star Medal with Combat "V"; Meritorious Service Medal; Air Medal with Strike Flight Numerals "25" and bronze star; and Navy Commendation Medal with gold star and Combat "V." General Williams is a former member of the Defense Science Board (DSB)
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These efforts include developing and testing videogame technologies that will teach fundamental knowledge and skills to Navy recruits; investigating command decision making and teamwork on Navy submarines in order to make recommendations for enhanced training, information architecture, and displays; and investigating intelligent tutoring and scenariobased training strategies for Navy surface-ship training.
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, ISR (intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) , irregular warfare, transportation and logistics, sensor data fusion, information exploitation, reliability and safety analysis, and autonomous mission planning.
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. He has held billets as company executive officer, company commander, battalion executive officer, battalion commander, FAC, naval gunfire team leader, brigade platoon leader, Air/ Naval Gunfire Liaison Company operations officer, regimental operations officer, assistant division commander and Commanding General of the 4th Marine Divi sion, and Deputy Commanding General of the lst Marine Expeditionary Force.
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His personal decorations include the Legion of Merit, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Navy Commendation Medal (second award) , and Navy Achievement Medal (second award)
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In this position, he provides strategic direction for the Government Services and Commercial Solutions Divisions, while contributing to efforts in cognitive systems engineering and advanced decision-support systems. Before co-founding Charles River Analytics, he was a senior scientist at BBN Technologies, a research engineer at Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, and a U.S.
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98 IMPROVING THE DECISION MAKING ABILITIES OF SMALL UNIT LEADERS Committee on Organizational Modeling: From Individuals to Societies, and recently was a member of the NRC's Committee for a Review of the En Route Air Traffic Control Complexity and Workload Model reviewing an En Route Air Traffic Control Workload Model for the Federal Aviation Administration. He has served on the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board as an outside peer reviewer of the Air Force Research Laboratory and recently chaired a study in advanced com mand and control of remotely piloted aircraft for future operations.
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