Committee on Operational Science and Technology Options for Defeating Improvised Explosive Devices

The committee’s principal function is to conduct discussions and help define and organize studies and other activities that would identify potential avenues for research, development, demonstration, and practical operational implementation of advanced science and technology options to defeat the growing threats and strategies undertaken to assemble, deploy, and use improvised explosive devices (IED). The committee will focus on issues relevant to the joint military service environment, as reflected in the Department of Defense Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) mission.

Membership

William Happer, Jr. (NAS), Chair, Professor, Department of Physics, Princeton University
Henry J. Hatch (NAE), Vice Chair, LTG, USA (retired); Independent consultant
Melvin R. Baer, Senior Scientist, Sandia National Laboratories
Alan Berman, Independent consultant
Robert L. Cattoi, Independent consultant
Timothy Coffey, Edison Chair, National Defense University and Senior Scientist, University of Maryland
Charles William (Bill) Gear (NAE), Professor Emeritus, NEC Research Institute, and Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lee Hammarstrom, Special Assistant to the Director for Space and Information Technology, Applied Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University
Larry G. Hill, Project Leader, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Jonathan A. Hunter, Director of Strategic Government Relations, Med-Eng Systems
Peter Kogge, Associate Dean of Engineering for Research, University of Notre Dame
James E. McGrath (NAE), University Distinguished Professor, Chemistry; Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering, Macromolecules and Interfaces Institute, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Robert A. Moore, Consultant, DST, Inc.
Nils R. Sandell, Jr., Vice President and General Manager, BAE Systems Advanced Information Technologies
John Sommerer, Director of Science & Technology and Chief Technology Officer, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Ann E. Speed, Cognitive Psychologist, Sandia National Laboratories
Dwight C. Streit (NAE), Vice President, Northrop Grumman
Jack W. Stuster, Vice President and Principal Scientist, Anacapa Sciences, Inc.
Jonathan Young, Senior Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Staff

Bruce Braun, Board Director, BAST
Robert Love, Senior Program Officer
James C. Myska, Senior Research Associate
Deanna Sparger, Program Administrative Coordinator