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Roster NSB Members
Dr. Miriam E. John, Chair, Independent Consultant
Dr. David A. Whelan, Vice Chair (NAE), Phantom Works, The Boeing Company
Dr. Timothy P. Coffey, Independent Consultant
Dr. Charles R. Cushing, C.R. Cushing & Co.
Dr. Anup Ghosh, George Mason University
Mr. James R. Gosler, Sandia National Laboratories
Dr. Susan Hackwood, California Council on Science and Technology
Mr. Lee Hammarstrom, Applied Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University
MCPON James L. Herdt, USN (Ret.), Independent Consultant
Dr. Barry M. Horowitz, (NAE), University of Virginia
VADM James D. Hull, USCG (Ret.), Independent Consultant
Brig Gen Leon A. Johnson, USAF (Ret.), independent consultant
Dr. Edward H. Kaplan, (NAE/IOM), Yale School of Management
Dr. Catherine M. Kelleher, University of Maryland and Brown University
Dr. Jerry A. Krill, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University
Mr. Terry P. Lewis, Raytheon Company
Mr. Thomas V. McNamara, Independent Consultant
Dr. Joseph Pedlosky, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Ms. Heidi C. Perry, Charles Stark Draper Laboratories, Inc.
Mr. Gene H. Porter, Institute for Defense Analyses
ADM J. Paul Reason, USN (Ret.), Independent Consultant
LtGen John E. Rhodes, USMC (Ret.), Independent Consultant
Dr. Timothy M. Swager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. James Ward, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lincoln Laboratory
NSB Staff & Contact Information
Dr. Charles F. Draper, Director
Dr. Ray Widmayer, Senior Program Officer
Mr. Billy M. Williams, Senior Program Officer
Ms. Marta V. Hernandez, Associate Program Officer
Ms. Susan G. Campbell, Administrative Coordinator
Ms. Mary G. (Dixie) Gordon, Information Officer
Ms. Heather Lozowski, Financial Associate
Dr. Sidney Reed, Consultant Tele: 202-334-3523
Fax: 202-334-3695
Mail: The National Academies
Naval Studies Board, Keck 930
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Washington, DC 20001 Dr. Miriam E. John (Chair) is currently an independent consultant, having retired from Sandia National Laboratories after 28 years of service. Her last position was Vice President of Sandia’s California Laboratory in Livermore. Dr. John serves as a member of the DoD’s Defense Science Board and the Threat Reduction Advisory Committee (for which she chairs the Nuclear Deterrent Transformation Panel). She is a past member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, the Board on Army Science and Technology, and DOE’s National Commission on Science and Security. Dr. John was appointed a National Associate of the National Academies of Science and Engineering. In her work with the private sector, Dr. John serves as a member of the Board of Directors of SAIC, and the Strategic Advisory Board of RedX Defense Systems. Her support to the academic community includes chairing the Advisory Board of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering of Tulane University and serving as a member of the External Research Advisory Board of the University of California at Davis. She recently became Vice Chair of the California Council on Science and Technology in January 2008, a body providing independent technical guidance to the state government analogous to the National Academies for the federal government. Dr. John is also a member of the Corporation for Draper Laboratory and the Los Alamos National Laboratory Weapons Complex Integration Committee. Return to Top Dr. Timothy P. Coffey is is an independent consultant having recently served as Edison Chair at the Center for Technology and National Security Policy at the National Defense University. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1962 with a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, and obtained his M.S. (1963) and Ph.D. (1967), both in Physics, from the University of Michigan. Dr. Coffey joined the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in 1971 as Head of the Plasma Dynamics Branch, Plasma Physics Division. In this position, he directed research in the simulation of plasma instabilities, the development of multidimensional fluid and magnetohydrodynamic codes, and the development of computer codes for treating chemically reactive flows. I n 1975, Dr. Coffey was named Superintendent, Plasma Physics Division; he was appointed Associate Director of Research for General Science and Technology in 1980. Two years later, Dr. Coffey was named Director of Research at NRL. Today, he serves on numerous scientific boards and advisory committees, to include the NRC Committee on Operational Science and Technology Options for Defeating Improvised Explosive Devices. Return to Top Dr. Charles R. Cushing is President of C.R. Cushing & Co., Incorporated, a firm of naval architects, marine engineers, and transportation consultants with offices in New York and Europe. He has been responsible for the design and construction of over 250 ocean-going vessels in the United States, Europe, and the Far East. Specifically, he has directed the concept, preliminary, and contract design; strategic planning; plan approval; and supervision of construction of vessels from tankers and delivery barges to bulk carriers and passenger ships. His work has included new construction, conversion, repair, and refurbishment of vessels. Dr. Cushing has been directly responsible for risk analyses, safety audits, energy audits, and the preparation of the U.S Coast Guard’s Tankerman’s Manual. A member of the National Academy of Engineering, he has designed intermodal shipping containers and a myriad of container handling equipment, and he holds a number of patents in maritime and intermodal technology. Dr. Cushing has served on scientific boards and advisory committees, and he is currently a member of the NRC’s Marine Board. Return to Top Dr. Susan Hackwood is Executive Director of the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) and Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Riverside, where her research interests include electrical engineering, signal processing, cellular robotic systems to name just a few. CCST is a not-for-profit corporation comprised of 150 top science and technology leaders sponsored by the key academic and federal research institutions in California and it advises the state on all aspects of science and technology including nanotechnology, stem cell research, intellectual property, climate change, energy, information technology, biotechnology, and technical workforce development and education. Dr. Hackwood has worked extensively with industry, academic, and government partnerships to identify policy issues of importance and is active in regional and state economic development. For example, she served as a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Engineering Delegate and was the 2007-2008 Chair. She has served on scientific boards and advisory committees, and she is currently a member of the NRC Advisory Board on the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center and NRC Committee on Competing in the 21st Century Best Practices in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives. Return to Top Dr. Anup Ghosh is Research Professor and Chief Scientist at the Center for Secure Information Systems in the Volgenau School of Information, Technology, and Engineering at George Mason University. Dr. Ghosh’s areas of expertise include software security, operating system security, networking security, and malicious code. In addition, he serves as a principal investigator for a multidisciplinary university research initiative aimed at detecting attacks, corruptions, and failures in enterprise-wide servers and client workstations. Prior to joining George Mason University, Dr. Ghosh was Senior Scientist and Program Manager in the Advanced Technology Office at DARPA where he managed an extensive portfolio of information assurance and information operations programs for the DoD. Dr. Ghosh recently served as a member of the NRC Committee on Information Assurance for U.S. Naval Forces.
Return to Top Mr. James R. Gosler is Fellow, Information Operations, having joined Sandia National Laboratories in 1979, where his early contributions included establishing a performance modeling/simulation program in the data processing operating systems design area and developing attack methodologies for both cryptographic and nuclear weapon systems in the adversarial analysis group. In 1989, Mr. Gosler was invited by the National Security Agency to serve as Sandia’s first Visiting Scientist. During his two year assignment, he consulted on computer security concerns and established/chaired key information security research working groups. Upon his return to Sandia, he was named Manager of the Software Adversarial Analysis Department. In 1993, he established and directed the Vulnerability Assessments Program and was named Assistant Director of the Systems Assessment and Research Center. He has completed numerous professional courses and schools, including the National Senior Cryptologic Course, the National Senior Intelligence Course, Harvard’s Program for Senior Executives in National and International Security, Aspen Institute’s Senior Executive Seminar, and the Intelligence Fellows Program. Mr. Gosler is a retired Captain in the U.S. Naval Reserves. Return to Top Mr. Lee Hammarstrom is Special Assistant for Space and Information Technology to the Director at the Applied Research Laboratory/Pennsylvania State University (ARL/PSU). Previously, he was the first Chief Scientist at the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and Chief Scientist at the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence. He conceived and was the “systems integrator” for a program that President Reagan recognized in 1987: “. . . having successfully developed one of our nations vital space programs. . . , has contributed to maintaining a strong creditable defense posture for the United States. . . .” He conceived and led the Global Grid/Global Information Grid initiative, which provided key elements of the DoD’s secure worldwide communications networks that successfully supported Operation Iraqi Freedom with more than 40 times the capacity of previous networks. Earlier, Mr. Hammarstrom held various positions at the Naval Research Laboratory in remote sensing, reconnaissance, and intelligence leading to the creation of the Space Systems Engineering Division. He has broad expertise in areas ranging from technology development to the testing and deploying of military and intelligence systems. Mr. Hammarstrom was named an NRO Pioneer in 2002 for his 40 years of contributions to national reconnaissance. He has served on numerous scientific and advisory committees, including as member of the NRC Committee on C4ISR for Future Naval Strike Groups. Return to Top Master Chief James L. Herdt retired from the U.S. Navy with the rank of master chief petty officer of the Navy and is currently chief executive officer and president of Herdt Consulting Inc. His consulting firm specializes in human resources management, organizational design and behavior, change management, and institutional learning and training. His background is in naval operations both ashore and afloat, including human resources management and training. In his last position he served as the ninth master chief petty officer of the Navy (the senior-most enlisted person in the Navy) where his responsibilities included leading program and policy development for the enlisted force. Return to Top Dr. Barry M. Horowitz (NAE) is Professor of Systems Engineering at the University of Virginia. His areas of expertise include the design and development of large-scale networks and information systems; application of security technology to large, network-based commercial systems; and design of large systems which involve coupling private data systems or mission critical support systems with open networks, such as the Internet. Previously he served as a Chairman and Founder of Concept Five Technologies and as President and Chief Executive Officer of the MITRE Corporation and Mitretek Systems. A member of the National Academy of Engineering, he has served on numerous scientific boards and advisory committees, including as a member of the National Research Council committee on C4ISR for Future Naval Strike Groups. Return to Top Vice Admiral James D. Hull retired from the U.S. Coast Guard with the rank of vice admiral and currently serves as Principal Advisor for Homeland Security of the Security Strategies and operations Group at Anteon Corporation. His background includes Coast Guard and interagency operations and capabilities, as well as maritime security and intercept operations. During his Coast guard career, Admiral Hull served as Commander of the Coast Guard’s Atlantic area and the U.S. Maritime Defense Zone Atlantic. He has served on numerous scientific boards and advisory committees, including as a member of the NRC Committee on The Role of Naval Forces in the Global War on Terror. Return to Top Brigadier General Leon A. Johnson is an independent consultant having recently retired as a manager for United Parcel Services flight operations. He is retired from the U.S. Air Force Reserves with the rank of brigadier general after 33 years of service. He has served as the employment manager, employee services manager, chief pilot, employee relations manager, and training manager during his 17 years with UPS flight operations. During his Air Force career, he served as the mobilization assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower and Reserve Affairs. In that role he advised senior Air Force leadership on outreach, marketing, retention, and recruiting initiatives. He also served as the chair of the Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) Human Resources Development Council (HRDC). As the chair of the HRDC General Johnson was the principal staff officer responsible for formulating and administering, in concert with other Air Force Reserve Staff agencies, policies and programs for and affecting AFRC people programs, including outreach and retention initiatives. General Johnson is a member of several organizations, including the Air Force Association, Reserve Officers Association, League of United Latin American Citizens, Women in Aviation, and the International Black Aerospace Council Inc. Return to Top Dr. Edward H. Kaplan is the William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Management Sciences and Professor of Public Health at Yale University. A member of the NAE and IOM, he received his BA from McGill University with First Class Honors in Economic and Urban Geography, and proceeded to graduate study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he completed three masters degrees (in Operations Research, City Planning, and Statistics) in addition to his doctorate in Urban Studies. He is Area Editor for Policy Modeling and Public Sector Operations Research for the Journal Operations Research, and on the editorial boards of the Journal of AIDS, Health Care Management Science, and Naval Research Logistics. Dr. Kaplan is an expert in operations research and statistics who has recently developed novel methods for quantitatively evaluating operational effectiveness of suicide-bomber-detector schemes. Return to Top Dr. Catherine M. Kelleher is Professor for Public Policy at the University of Maryland and Senior Faculty Associate at Brown University’s Watson Institute where her research interests include cooperative European defense and security policies, NATO relations, and international security and arms control. Dr. Kelleher served in the Clinton Administration as Personal Representative of the Secretary of Defense in Europe and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russian, Ukraine, and Eurasia. She has served on numerous scientific boards and advisory committees, to include as vice chair, co-vice chair, and member of the Committee on International Security and Arms Control. Return to Top Dr. Jerry A. Krill is Assistant Director of Programs at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory where he oversees more than 400 programs and is also the laboratory’s chief quality officer. His expertise includes weapons systems engineering, sensor and weapons networks, precision engagement and information-centric operations, missile defense, over-the-horizon missile command-and-control systems, and microwave technology. Previously, he served as head of the Power Projection Systems Department, Program Manager for the Air and Missile Defense Area, and Supervisor of the Weapon Systems Engineering branch. He has served on numerous scientific boards and advisory committees, including as a member of the NRC Committee on C4ISR for Future Naval Strike Groups. Return to Top Mr. Terry P. Lewis is Senior Systems Engineer with the Raytheon Company, where his areas of expertise include command, control, communications, and information systems; digitized battlespace systems; communications and transmission security in military tactical systems; wireless network security; and network management authentication techniques for robust security architecture. In addition, Mr. Lewis has developed anti-tampering technologies to prevent or reduce the ability of potential aggressors to reverse-engineer critical U.S. communications technologies. He is a Raytheon Fellow and received the Most Promising Engineer of the Year award conferred at the 2002 Black Engineer of the Year Award Conference. Mr. Lewis recently served as a member of the NRC Committee on Distributed Remote Sensing for Naval Undersea Warfare. Return to Top Mr. Thomas V. McNamara is an independent consultant. Previously he held the position of Vice President, ISR and Protection Systems, at Textron Defense Systems. He was responsible for the development of technology and systems to address the emerging challenges in the areas of precision engagement, maritime and land platforms, advanced controls, and aircraft engines. His areas of expertise include guidance, navigation and control; intelligent autonomy; precision weapons delivery; micro-electromechanical sensors; dismounted soldier systems; mission planning; and systems integration for naval submersible and aircraft platforms. Return to Top Dr. Joseph Pedlosky is Senior Scientist Emeritus in the Physical Oceanography Department at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. His research interests include baroclinic instability and general stability problems in fluid dynamics; nonlinear dynamics of finite amplitude waves; general circulation of the ocean, especially mid-latitude gyres; geophysical fluid dynamics; equatorial oceanic circulation; abyssal ocean circulation. Specifically, Dr. Pedlosky’s research centers on the fluid dynamics of the oceans, where he has constructed theories for the wind-driven circulation of the ocean, with particular attention paid to the way in which the density stratification of the upper two kilometers of the ocean is determined by dynamic processes. Another strand of his research involves a certain type of hydrodynamic instability of particularly oceanographic and meteorological interest called baroclinic instability in which he has contributed to the basic theory of both the linear and non-linear aspects of this problem. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, he has served on scientific boards and advisory committees, including as a member of the NRC Committee on Strengthening the Linkages between the Sciences and Mathematical Sciences. Return to Top Ms. Heidi C. Perry is the Director of Algorithms and Software at Draper Laboratory. This engineering directorate supports business across the Lab’s wide spectrum of work in strategic, space, tactical, special operations, biomedical and geospatial systems. Her expertise includes guidance, navigation and control, global positioning system anti-jam and ground control, autonomous vehicle (air, land, sea, space) avionics and real-time embedded mission critical software. She also has experience in developing signal processing systems, decision systems and command, control and communications systems. Previously, Ms. Perry served as the Director for Draper Independent Research and Development (IRaD). She also served as the Mission Systems Division Leader, Software Engineering Division Leader and Principle Member Technical Staff at Draper. She served as a member of the NRC Committee on the “1000-ship-Navy” – A Distributed Global and Maritime Network and is a member of the NRC’s Naval Studies Board. Return to Top
Mr. Gene H. Porter is an adjunct member of the analytic staff of the Institute for Defense Analyses conducting research in matters relating to national security planning, weapons system development, and most recently, defense capability portfolio management techniques. Mr. Porter has also been supporting the Office of the Secretary of Defense in defining the detailed Defense Planning Scenarios that are intended to guide the development of U.S. military force posture and modernization programs. This analytic work has involved an all-source examination of potential threats, including space-based threats, and potential U.S. responses. Previously, Mr. Porter served as Director of Acquisition Policy and Program Integration for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, where he was responsible for long-range planning, programming, and budgeting matters related to new military warfare systems. His earlier career included various staff and line management positions at Lockheed-Sanders Corporation in the development and manufacture of military and commercial electronic systems, including mine and undersea warfare systems. Mr. Porter has served on numerous scientific and advisory committees, including as chair of the NRC Committee for Mine Warfare Assessment. Return to Top Admiral J. Paul Reason, USN (Ret.) is an independent consultant. Admiral Reason retired in 1999 after 34 years of active duty service in the U.S. Navy. The Navy’s first African American to make four-star rank, Admiral Reason’s last assignment was Commander, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, where his duties 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. Navy bases and facilities along the East and Gulf coasts of the United States, in Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Iceland.) A graduate of the Naval Academy and Naval Postgraduate School, he is a nuclear-trained surface warfare officer with more than twenty years experience at sea. Ashore he served as Deputy Chief of Naval Operation for Plans, Policy and Operations; Commander, Naval Surface Force Atlantic; and Commander, Naval Base Seattle. Today Admiral Reason serves on numerous corporate boards; most recently he served on Wal-Mart’s Board of Directors. Return to Top Lieutenant General John E. Rhodes retired from the U.S. Marine Corps with the rank of lieutenant general after 34 years of service and is currently an independent consultant. His background is in development of warfighting concepts and in the integration of all aspects of doctrine, organization, training and education, equipment, and support and facilities to enable the Marine Corps to field combat-ready forces. In his last position he served as commanding general of the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Development Command, where his responsibilities included assessments of current and future operating environments and adaptation of the Corps’ training infrastructure and resources in order to ensure that integrated capabilities were delivered to the combatant commanders. General Rhodes has served on numerous scientific advisory committees, including as a member of the NRC Committee on the Role of Experimentation in Building Future Naval Forces. Return to Top Dr. Timothy M. Swager is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Chemistry and Head of the Department of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research interests include electronic materials, chemical sensors, polymer science, liquid crystals, synthetic conductors, molecular recognition, molecular electronics, and photonics. A member of the National Academy of Sciences and fellow of the American Academy and Sciences, he won the Lemelson-MIT Award for Invention and Innovation in 2007. Dr. Swager has served on scientific boards and advisory committees, including as a member of the NRC Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism: Panel on Chemical Issues and NRC Committee on Operational Science and Technology Options for Defeating Improvised Explosive Devices. Return to Top Dr. James Ward is Assistant Head of the ISR Systems and Technology Division at MIT Lincoln Laboratory where he has worked since 1990. His areas of technical expertise include signal processing for radar, sonar, and communications systems; adaptive array and space-time adaptive processing; detection and estimation theory; and systems analysis. In 2001 he was the recipient of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Technical Excellence Award, and in 2003 received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society’s Fred Nathanson Young Engineer Award for contributions to adaptive radar and sonar signal processing. Dr. Ward is an IEEE Fellow. Return to Top
Dr. David A. Whelan (Vice Chair) is Chief Scientist, Boeing Defense Space, and Security, Vice President, Strategic Innovation, Phantom Works, The Boeing Company. Prior to joining Boeing in 2001, Dr. Whelan was Director of the Tactical Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), where he led the development of enabling technologies, such as unmanned vehicles and space-based moving target indicator radar systems. Prior to his position with DARPA, Dr. Whelan held several positions of increasing responsibility with Hughes Aircraft. His high-technology development experience also includes roles as a research physicist for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, as well as one of four lead engineers assigned for the design and development of the B-2 Stealth Bomber Program at Northrop Grumman. Dr. Whelan is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Return to Top Charles F. Draper is Director of the National Academies’ Naval Studies Board. He joined the National Academies in 1997 as Program Officer then Senior Program Officer with the Naval Studies Board and in 2003 became Associate Director and Acting Director. During his tenure at the National Academies, Dr. Draper has served as study director on a wide-range of topics aimed at helping the Department of the Navy with its scientific, technical, and strategic planning. Prior to joining the National Academies, Dr. Draper was the lead mechanical engineer at Sensytech, Incorporated (formerly S.T. Research Corporation), where he provided technical and program management support for satellite earth station and small satellite design. He received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Vanderbilt University in 1995; his doctoral research was conducted at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), where he used an atomic force microscope to measure the nano-mechanical properties of thin film materials. In parallel with his graduate student duties, Dr. Draper was a mechanical engineer with Geo-Centers, Incorporated, working onsite at NRL on the development of an underwater x-ray backscattering tomography system used for the nondestructive evaluation of U.S. Navy sonar domes on surface ships. Return to Top Raymond Widmayer is a Senior Program Officer with the National Academies’ Naval Studies board and was a consultant for the NSB from July 2004 through June 2007. He retired from the federal government in June 2004 with more than 40 years of service working for the U.S. Navy as a mechanical engineer. His career started at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory (White Oak) and progressed through a two-year posting with the United Kingdom, working on sea mine warfare programs for the Royal Navy. Following his United Kingdom posting he was selected as the Technical Director for Sea Mine Warfare within the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations in 1982. He concluded his government service as the Technical Director of the OPNAV organization responsible for overall integration of S&T within OPNAV. Ray earned his BSME from the University of Maryland (1965, mechanical engineering), his M.S. from Columbia University (1967, mechanical engineering), and his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland (1972, mechanical engineering concentrating in fluid mechanics). Additionally, he is a 1993 graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. Return to Top Billy M. Williams is a Senior Program Officer with the National Academies’ Naval Studies Board. Prior to joining NSB, he served in a similar capacity with the National Academies’ Board on Army Science and Technology where he led projects associated with the U.S. Army’s Chemical Demilitarization program. Billy retired as a Global R&D Director from the Dow Chemical Company in 2004 after 30 years of service. His career at Dow included directing analytical sciences and materials science in operations across the U.S., Europe and Asia. While at Dow he also served as the company’s Director of External Science and Technology programs, with responsibility for developing and securing strategic technical partnerships with leading research universities, national laboratories and federal agencies. Billy earned an M.S. degree in Organic Chemistry and has completed executive education programs at Indiana University and Harvard University. Return to Top Marta V. Hernandez is an Associate Program Officer with the National Academies’ Naval Studies Board. Prior to joining the NSB, she served for the National Academies’ Air Force Studies Board and the National Materials Advisory Board. Marta joined the National Academies in 2003 after graduating from the University of Maryland with a B.S. in materials science and engineering. Since then she has worked on a variety of projects including ad-hoc committees, standing committees, roundtable meetings, and proposal review panels for various sponsors within the Department of Defense and other federal agencies. Return to Top
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