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Appendix C: Biographies of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 161-172

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... working group to develop technical concepts for the Navy's role in national and regional missile defense. He holds 18 patents, and his awards include Innovator of the Year by the Baltimore Daily Record and the American Society of Naval Engineers "Jimmie" Hamilton Award.
From page 162...
... Atlantic Fleet, where his responsibilities included the training, maintenance, and readiness of naval forces deployed to the Mediterranean and Caribbean seas, South America, and the Persian Gulf. He was also responsible for the operations of most U.S.
From page 163...
... Coffey was named director of research at NRL. Today, he serves on numerous scientific boards and advisory committees such as the recently completed NRC Committee on Operational Science and Technology Options for Defeating Improvised Explosive Devices; he is a member of the NSB.
From page 164...
... Coast Guard's senior civilian officer for technology, often acting as the Coast Guard chief information officer. In his prior tour with Northrop Grumman and the Federal Data Corporation in the 1990s, he was director of Web/Internet security services, focusing on emerging threats to Internet-based systems.
From page 165...
... She has served on numerous scientific boards and advisory committees, including as a member of the NRC Committee on National Security Implications of Climate Change for U.S. Naval Forces and the NRC Committee on the "1,000-Ship Navy" -- A Distributed and Global Maritime Network.
From page 166...
... McNamara is currently director, strategy and business creation at Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems. He served previously as senior vice president and chief technology officer for Textron Systems, where he focused on long-term strategic technical investments and program execution to support Textron Systems' businesses.
From page 167...
... and as the president and chief executive officer of Hicks and Associates, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of SAIC from 2002 to 2007. He also served as the chairman of the Department of Defense Threat Reduction Advisory Committee from 2004 to 2010 and as the chairman of the board of the Navy Mutual Aid Association from 2003 to 2011.
From page 168...
... He is responsible for projects that include any maritime component. He was scenario lead for two corporate-level Marine Air Ground Task Force Experiments, creating the scenarios and coordinating the efforts involving aeronautics, electronic systems, enterprise operations, information systems and global solutions, mission systems, and space systems.
From page 169...
... and the defense of retaliatory forces against nuclear attack in the 1960s, to tactical defense of land and sea forces in the 1970s, to defense of CONUS, theater, and allied military and civilian assets against air, cruise, or ballistic missile attack in the 1980s and 1990s. He has participated in a number of Army Science Board, Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, and Navy Research Advisory Committee task forces.
From page 170...
... Prior assignments include vice president for strategy and innovation and chief scientist, BDS; vice president, Boeing corporate business development and strategy; and vice president/general manager and deputy to the president of the Boeing Company. He began his career with Boeing as vice president and chief technology officer for the space and communications group.
From page 171...
... John D Wilkinson is an assistant group leader at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, in the Air Defense Techniques Group of the Air and Missile Defense Technology Division.
From page 172...
... He has directed studies in the areas of carbohydrate chemistry and glycobiology, crude oil pipeline transportation, computational molecular dynamics simulations, and chemical and biological defense.


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