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Appendix A: Committee and Staff Biographical Information
Pages 63-68

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... His responsibilities included Commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory at WrightPatterson Air Force Base (AFB) ; Vice Commander of the Aeronautical Systems Center; Air Force technology executive officer; and assignments at the Secretary of the Air Force's Office of Special Projects, the Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center, and North American Aerospace Defense Command.
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From page 64...
... Dr. Guo was the mission design lead for several missions, including NASA's decadal study of Uranus Orbiter/Probe mission, the Mercury Lander mission, the MERLIN Discovery mission proposal, the Mars Scout mission proposal "The Great Escape," NASA's Solar Sentinels mission study, and a proposed Aladdin mission to return samples from Mars' moons Phobos and Deimos.
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From page 65...
... He worked on the acquisition of the Space Defense Operations Center system for the Air Force Electronic Systems Center, which now resides at the Joint Space Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base. He developed the Special Perturbations Tasker that tasks the Space Surveillance Network for satellite observations to maintain the high-accuracy special perturbations satellite catalog.
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From page 66...
... , and an associate fellow of AIAA, and he has served on the AIAA Astrodynamics Technical Committee and the American Astronautical Society Space Flight Mechanics Committee. He is a member of the American Astronomical Society's Division of Dynamical Astronomy (where he is currently chair)
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From page 67...
... Since joining Lincoln Laboratory in 1972, he has been involved in a variety of projects relating to space surveillance, including the Millstone Hill radar, the Haystack radar, ALTAIR, and the Space-Based Visible program. He is also the originator of the Space Control Conference held every year at Lincoln Laboratory.
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... Since joining the NRC in 2001, Dr. Moloney has served as a study director at the National Materials Advisory Board, the Board on Physics and Astronomy (BPA)
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