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Appendix R: Steering Committee, Panel, and Staff Biographical Information
Pages 332-358

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... and was associate administrator of NASA, where he had senior executive responsibility for the agency's aeronautics and space research and technology development including operations oversight of Ames, Langley, Dryden, and Glenn Research Centers.
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... In addi tion, he was selected and qualified as a DOD space shuttle payload specialist, and was first to study information warfare while a research fellow at the National War College. He is an associate fellow of AIAA.
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... and avionics system development, including responsibility for assuring robust, integrated GN&C/avionics fault management capabilities. His GN&C/avionics technical leadership has been applied to the space shuttle, the International Space Station, the Orion spacecraft, advanced Earth observation systems, autonomous air and spaceflight systems, uncrewed aerial vehicles, reusable launch vehicles, hypersonic vehicles, precision Mars landing systems, ballistic missile defense systems, precision delivery airdrop systems, ground warrior systems, and helicopter fire control systems.
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... Research Center, deputy associate administrator for aeronautics and space technology at NASA Headquarters, and a research scientist at the Ames Research Center. Before beginning his career at NASA, he conducted fundamental studies in fluid dynamics at the California Insti tute of Technology (Caltech)
From page 336...
... . While on active duty, his assignments included program director of the medium-launch vehicles program and space-launch systems offices during the recovery from the Challenger Space Shuttle accident, vice commander and commander of Ogden Air Logistics Center, com mander of the Space and Missile Systems Center, director of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, vice chief of staff at Headquarters USAF, and commander, Air Force Materiel Command.
From page 337...
... and a former advisor to the Sandia National Laboratories Board of Directors Missions Committee. Major General Paul has served on several NRC committees, including the Committee on the Role and Scope of Mission-Enabling Activities in NASA's Space and Earth Science Missions, the Steering Committee of the NASA Technology Roadmaps, and the Committee on Making the Soldier Decisive on Future Battlefields.
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... Rogacki has served as: NASA's deputy associate administrator for space transportation technology (in charge of the Space Launch Initia tive) ; program director for the Orbital Space Plane and Next Generation Launch Technology Programs; co-chair of the NASA/DOD Integrated High Payoff Rocket Propulsion Technology Program; director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center's Space Transportation Directorate; director of the Propulsion and Power Directorate for the USAF Research Laboratory; director of the USAF Phillips Laboratory Space and Rocket Propulsion Directorate; and deputy director of the Flight Dynamics Directorate of the USAF Wright Laboratory.
From page 339...
... His previous service includes vice chair of the Aerospace Engineering Peer Committee and membership on the Committee for the Review of Proposals to the 2009 Engineering and Physical Science Research and Commercialization Program (ERCP) of the Ohio Third Frontier Program, the Panel on Air and Ground Vehicle Technology–2007, the Committee for the Evaluation of NASA's Fundamental Aeronautics Research Program, the Committee on Analysis of Air Force Engine Efficiency Improvement Options for Large Non-Fighter Aircraft, the Committee on Air Force/Depart ment of Defense Aerospace Propulsion, the Panel B: Propulsion and Power, the 2005 NAS Award in Aeronautical Engineering Selection Committee, the NAS Award in Aeronautical Engineering Selection Committee, and the Aerospace Engineering Peer Committee.
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... Mr. Henley previously managed advanced programs at Rockwell, evaluating commercialization of space launch systems from the former Soviet Union, studying an "Inspector" sub-satellite for the International Space Station and leading cryogenic upper stage design activities.
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... His previous NRC membership service includes the Panel to Review Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Proposals in Propulsion–2005 and Panel J: High-Energy Power and Propulsion and In-space Transportation.
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... Before joining ULA, Dr. Sowers was director of business development & advanced programs for Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, Space Transportation line of business located in Denver, Colorado.
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... He has served as chief engineer on multiple programs including DARPA advanced robotics projects, space station robotics elements, Mars exploration spacecraft, and military unmanned systems.
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... Dr. Miller's space robotics work has been recognized with numerous NASA Certificates of Recognition, NASA Group Achievement Awards, a NASA Space Act Board Award, the JPL Lew Allen Award and the NASA Exceptional Service Medal.
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... in R&D management from George Washington University. He has an extensive history with the NRC having served as a chair on the Committee on Distributed Arrays of Small Instruments for Research and Monitoring in Solar-Terrestrial Physics: A Workshop, the Committee on Exploration of Outer Heliosphere: A Workshop, the Committee on Solar and Space Physics, and as a member on the Committee on the Scientific Context for the Exploration of the Moon, the Committee for the Review of NASA Science Mission Directorate Science Plan, the Committee on the Assessment of the Role of Solar and Space Physics in NASA's Space Explora tion Initiative, and the Space Studies Board, the Committee on Solar and Space Physics: A Community Assessment and Strategy for the Future, the Panel on Solar-Wind-Magnetosphere Interactions, the Committee on Solar and Space Physics, and the AFOSR Atmospheric Sciences Review Panel.
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... Dr. Cash has served on the Panel on Astronomy and Astrophysics for the Committee on Priorities for Space Science Enabled by Nuclear Power and Propulsion: A Vision for Beyond 2015, and on the Infrastructure Panel of the New Worlds, New Horizons Decadal Survey.
From page 347...
... He has an served on an extensive list of NRC committees, he chaired the 2010 Arctowski Medal Selection Committee, served as vice-chair on the Panel on the Sun and Heliospheric Physics, and the Panel on Solar Astronomy, the executive committees of the decadal surveys of Astrophysics and Heliophysics, and as a member on the Committee on PI-led Missions in the Space Sciences: Lessons Learned, the Committee on Solar and Space Physics: A Community Assessment and Strategy for the Future, the Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee, the Space Studies Board, the Task Group on Ground-Based Solar Research, and the Panel for Review of the Explorer Program DANIEL WINTERHALTER is a principal scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.
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... She accepted a position as a payload officer/flight controller at the Johnson Space Center for 2 years before she was selected as a NASA astronaut, flying five Space Shuttle flights. She also served two tours in Washington, D.C., as support for the Challenger accident Rogers Commission and then as deputy associate administrator for the Office of Life and Microgravity Sciences at NASA Headquarters.
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... Mr. Bienhoff was also the Boeing co-lead with NASA for the Russian FGB module on NASA's International Space Station Russian Integration Team; and participated in several Access to Space studies as contract manager and a member of multiple NASA-industry teams.
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... He currently serves as the PI on the Phase 3 Universal Space Launch Vehicle (USLV) project for the USAF/AFRL.
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... Prior to joining Penn State in 1989, he held positions at SPARTA (Space Technology) and Rockwell International (Satellite Systems)
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... in mechanical engineering and physics from Caltech. He previously served as a member of six NRC committees, most recently the Committee on Directed Energy Technology for Countering Indirect Weapons.
From page 353...
... He has an extensive NRC membership record, including the Committee on Assessment of NASA Laboratory Capabilities, the Committee to Review NASA's Exploration Technology Development Programs, the Committee to Review NASA's Space Communications Program, and the Committee for the Review of NASA's Pioneering Revolutionary Technology (PRT) Program.
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... His previous membership service includes the Panel on Climate Variability and Change, the Space Studies Board, the Panel to Review NASA's Earth Observing System in the Context of the USGCRP, the Committee on NASA's Space Station Engineering and Technology Development, the NASA Technical Roadmaps Study, and the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board, the Geophysics Research Forum, and the Steering Committee for the Study and Workshop on NASA's Space Research and Technology Program.
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... since 1993, directing studies on the modernization of the U.S. air transportation system, system engineering and design systems, aviation weather systems, aircraft certification standards and procedures, commercial supersonic aircraft, the safety of space launch systems, radioisotope power systems, cost growth of NASA Earth and space science missions, and other aspects of aeronautics and space research and technology.
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... His research interests were rarefied gas dynamics, transonics, high angle of attack aerodynamics, and hypersonic reentry, including major inputs to the European Hermes space shuttle program.
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... Before joining the SSB and ASEB in April 2010, he was associate director of the BPA and study director for the Astro2010 decadal survey for astronomy and astrophysics. In addition to his professional experience at the NRC, Dr.


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