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Appendix B: Committee and Staff Biographical Information
Pages 53-58

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... Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences, director of the Integrated Remote and In Situ Sensing Program, and director emeritus of the Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles at the University of Colorado, Boulder (CU)
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From page 54...
... Earlier this year he received the Engineers' Council Distinguished Engineering Project Achievement Award for leading the development of a first-in-the-nation graduate program in airworthiness, in partnership with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. At MITRE he was awarded the Director's Award for innovative safety risk analyses and simulations in support of the UAS Limited Deployment -- Cooperative Airspace Project flight tests.
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From page 55...
... Prior to joining RTCA, Ms. Jenny served as chief executive officer of MJF Strategies, LLC, an aviation consulting firm; vice president of corporate business development at ARINC; director of airline business and operations analysis for US Airways; and technical director at the MITRE Corporation.
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From page 56...
... board of directors and is also AUVSI's technical representative to the International Civil Aviation Organization Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems Panel. He was a charter member of the FAA's Small Unmanned Aircraft System Aviation Rulemaking Committee and former member of the FAA UAS Aviation Rulemaking Committee.
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From page 57...
... Dr. Sinha is a member of the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board, a former member of the Committee of the Federal Aviation Administration Research Plan on Certification of New Technologies into the National Airspace System, and a former chair of the Aviation Group of the Transportation Research Board.
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From page 58...
... He has held Guggenheim and Verville fellowships at the National Air and Space Museum and was an associate editor of the German spaceflight magazine Raumfahrt Concrete, in addition to writing for such publications as Novosti Kosmonavtiki (Russia) , Spaceflight, Space Chronicle (United Kingdom)
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