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Roster NSB Members
Dr. Miriam E. John, Chair, Independent Consultant
Dr. David A. Whelan, Vice Chair (NAE), The Boeing Company
Dr. Timothy P. Coffey, Independent Consultant
Dr. Charles R. Cushing, (NAE), C.R. Cushing & Co., Inc.
Dr. James N. Eagle, Naval Postgraduate School
Dr. Anup Ghosh, George Mason University
Mr. James R. Gosler, Independent Consultant
Dr. Susan Hackwood, California Council on Science and Technology
Mr. Charles E. Harper, Semtech Corporation
MCPON James L. Herdt, USN (Ret.), Independent Consultant
VADM James D. Hull, USCG (Ret.), Independent Consultant
Dr. Tamara E. Jernigan, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Dr. Bernadette Johnson, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Brig Gen Leon A. Johnson, USAF (Ret.), Independent Consultant
Dr. Terry P. Lewis, Raytheon Company
Dr. Ronald R. Luman, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Richard S. Muller, (NAE), University of California at Berkeley
Dr. Joseph Pedlosky, (NAS) Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Ms. Heidi C. Perry, Charles Stark Draper Laboratories, Inc.
ADM J. Paul Reason, USN (Ret.), Independent Consultant
LtGen John E. Rhodes, USMC (Ret.), Independent Consultant
Dr. Fred B. Schneider, (NAE), Cornell University
Mr. Paul A. Schneider, The Chertoff Group
Dr. Andrew M. Sessler, (NAS), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Dr. Allan Steinhardt, Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.
Dr. Timothy M. Swager, (NAS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
NSB Staff & Contact Information
Dr. Charles F. Draper, Director
Dr. Ray Widmayer, 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 Phone: 202-334-3523
Fax: 202-334-3695
Email: nsb@nas.edu
Mailing Address:
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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.
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Dr. David A. Whelan (Vice Chair) (NAE) 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
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. In 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 (NAE) 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. James N. Eagle is Professor of Operations Research at the Naval Post Graduate School. His primary areas of research and expertise are the military applications of operations research, especially in search and detection theory, applied probability, and military modeling. Dr. Eagle served as an officer in the U.S. Navy submarine force from 1969 to 1980, retiring from the U.S. Naval Reserve as a captain in 1994. At the Naval Postgraduate School, he has served as Chairman of the Undersea Warfare Academic Group, Chairman of the Department of Operations Research, and Associate Dean of Faculty. He is past associate editor of U.S. Naval Research Logistics, and is currently serving on the NRC Committee on U.S. Naval Forces’ Capabilities for Responding to Small Vessel Threats. 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.
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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. 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 Mr. Charles E. Harper is Senior Vice President of the Strategy and Systems Innovation Group at Semtech Corporation, where he is responsible for advance technology and process technology development for Semtech’s business units in wireless, sensing, and communication systems. Prior to the acquisition by Semtech, Mr. Harper was Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder of Sierra Monolithics since its founding in 1988. Sierra Monolithics was an advance technology company responsible for the design, development, and manufacture of integrated circuits for optical networks used by the commercial sector; and communications, radar, and electronic warfare systems used by various military customers and the DOD. Prior to founding Sierra Monolithics, Mr. Harper worked for several high technology and defense companies, including as Manager of Advance Technology Development at Magnavox, Director of Business Planning at Mattel, and Assistant Director of Management Services at Lear Sieger; he also held several engineering and executive management positions at the Garrett/Allied Signal Corporation. Mr. Harper has served on numerous scientific boards and advisory committees, including as a current member of the California Council on Science and Technology, the University of Southern California Electric Engineering Advisory Council, the University of California at Los Angeles Health System Board, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School Dean Advisory Council, and the Six Semiconductor (Brazil) Technical Advisory Board.
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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 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 Dr. Tamara E. Jernigan is Deputy Principal Associate Director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). She is responsible for ensuring the safety, reliability, and security of the U.S. nuclear stockpile in the absence of testing through a comprehensive science-based program. Dr. Jernigan initially joined LLNL as Principle Deputy Associate Director for the Physics and Advanced Technologies Directorate and later became Associate Director for Strategic Human Capital Management. Prior to joining LLNL, Dr. Jernigan was selected as a NASA astronaut in 1985. She is a veteran of five Space Shuttle missions where she supervised the pre-flight planning and in-flight execution of critical activities aboard STS-40, 52, 67, 80, and 96. She is currently serving on the NRC Committee on the NASA Technology Roadmap.
Return to Top Dr. Bernadette Johnson is Chief Technology Officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory. Her responsibilities include the development of the laboratory’s long-term technology strategy and the coordination of collaborative research with the MIT campus. Prior to this position, she was Assistant Head of the Homeland Protection and Tactical Systems Division of the laboratory. Her technical foci include military and civilian chemical and biological defense and forensics sensing, and she led a study to develop a strategic plan for bioscience research at the laboratory. She was and remains actively involved in technology innovation initiatives. Dr. Johnson previously served on the NRC Committee on Review of Testing and Evaluation Methodology for Biological Point Detectors. 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. 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, Dr. 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. Dr. Lewis recently served as a member of the NRC Committee on Distributed Remote Sensing for Naval Undersea Warfare. Return to Top Dr. Ronald R. Luman is Chief of Staff of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, where he previously served as Assistant Director for Strategy and Head of the National Security Analysis Department. He has a broad technical experience base including leadership roles in design, development, test and evaluation of undersea systems, missile and navigation systems, ballistic missile defense and intelligence systems architectures. Dr. Luman has served on various National Academies and National Infrastructure Advisory Council panels addressing national security topics, including the NRC Committee on the Role of Naval Forces in the Global War on Terror and more recently on the NRC Committee on National Security Implications of Climate for U.S. Naval Forces—both of which were conducted under the Board’s auspices. He is also Chair of the Systems Engineering Program in the JHU Whiting School of Engineering, and serves on the Visiting Committee for Engineering Systems at MIT. Return to Top Dr. Richard S. Muller (NAE) is Professor in the Graduate School and Founding Director, Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center, University of California (UC), Berkeley. Joining the UC Berkeley faculty in 1962, his initial research and teaching focused on integrated circuit devices. In the late 1970s Dr. Muller changed his research focus to the general area now known as microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). He has been awarded: NATO and Fulbright Research Fellowships; an Alexander von Humboldt Senior-Scientist Award; the UC Berkeley Citation (1994); Stevens Institute of Technology Renaissance Award (1995); the Transducers Research Conference Career Achievement Award (1997), the IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award (with Roger T. Howe, 1998) and an IEEE Millennium Medal (2000). He is a life fellow of the IEEE, and has served as an IEEE distinguished lecturer. In 1990, he proposed to IEEE and American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) the creation of a MEMS technical journal, which began publication in 1991 as the IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems (IEEE/ASME JMEMS). A member of the National Academy of Engineering, Dr. Muller is the author or co-author of more than 300 research papers and technical presentations and of 19 issued patents. 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 Admiral J. Paul Reason is an independent consultant having retired from the U.S. Navy with the rank of admiral after 35 years of service. 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. Fred B. Schneider (NAE) is Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University; concurrently, he serves as Chief Scientist of the National Science Foundation-funded TRUST Science and Technology Center, which brings together researchers at the University of California at Berkeley, Carnegie-Mellon, Cornell, Stanford, and Vanderbilt. A member of the NAE, Professor Schneider’s research interests include trustworthy systems; specifically, systems that will perform as expected despite failures and attacks. His early research interests included formal methods to aid in the design and implementation of concurrent and distributed systems that satisfy their specifications. Professor Schneider is author of two texts on that subject: On Concurrent Programming and (co-authored with D. Gries) A Logical Approach to Discrete Mathematics. He is also known for his research in theory and algorithms for building fault-tolerant distributed systems. More recently, Professor Schneider’s research interests have turned to system security, and his work characterizing what policies can be enforced with various classes of defenses is widely cited and it is seen as advancing the nascent science base for security. He is also engaged in research concerning legal and economic measures for improving system trustworthiness. Professor Schneider has served on numerous scientific boards and advisory committees, including as a member of the NRC’s Computer Science and Telecommunications Board and served as Editor of the 1998 NRC report entitled Trust in Cyberspace. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association of Computing Machinery, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; he is also a current member of the Defense Science Board. He is also a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (Norges Tekniste Vitenskapsakademi).
Return to Top The Honorable Paul A. Schneider is a defense and aerospace consultant, and Principal of The Chertoff Group—an organization aimed at providing security, risk management, and merger/acquisition advisory services for U.S. government and corporate clients around the world. Previously, Mr. Schneider served first as the Under Secretary for Management and subsequently as the Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Prior to joining DHS, Mr. Schneider served in a number of U.S. government capacities, to include: Senior Acquisition Executive of the National Security Agency (NSA), where he was responsible for oversight and execution of signals intelligence and information security development and acquisition programs; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition, where he was responsible for the oversight and execution of Navy and Marine Corps research, development and acquisition programs; and Executive Director and Senior Civilian of the Naval Sea Systems Command, the Navy’s largest ashore organization, where he was responsible for the day-to-day operations of shipyards, laboratories, and engineering and test facilities. Mr. Schneider serves on numerous scientific boards and advisory committees, including as the current Chair of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association’s Homeland Security Committee.
Return to Top Dr. Andrew M. Sessler (NAS) is Director Emeritus and Distinguished Emeritus Scientist of the E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. After serving as Director of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (from 1973-80), Dr. Sessler returned to a highly productive research career in free-electron lasers and novel methods of particle acceleration to ultra-high energies. A member of the NAS, Dr. Sessler’s research interests include the design of modern accelerators (colliders) and synchrotron sources; specifically, theoretical problems related to the manipulation of beams, such as beam-beam effects (in colliders) and collective instabilities. In addition, Dr. Sessler’s research interests include novel acceleration techniques such as laser-plasma acceleration, wake-field accelerators, and inverse free-electron accelerators, as well as arms control matters, human rights matters, and the international aspects of physics and science education. From 1987 to 1991, Dr. Sessler chaired the Federation of American Scientists and co-founded Scientists for Sakharov, Orlov and Sharansky. He went on to receive the first American Physical Society Nicholson Medal for Humanitarian Service and later served as Vice President of the American Physical Society (in 1996) and as its President (in 1998). He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and currently on the NRC's Committee on Assessment of Directed Energy R&D for U.S. Air Force Applications. Return to Top Dr. Allan Steinhardt is Vice President for Science and Technology at Booz Allen Hamilton where he leads a team of scientists, engineers, and mathematicians in providing prototyping, portfolio analysis, technology roadmaps, and innovation services to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, including custom RF signal prototype collection systems for airborne platforms, prototype radar systems integration, signal processing, and is a science and technology subject matter expert to support military intelligence. A fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE), Dr. Steinhardt has published over 100 articles in academic and defense strategy journals and co-authored a book on Adaptive Radar. His work on Householder algorithms has been cited over 200 times in peer reviewed research journals. Dr. Steinhardt has held various leadership positions in the IEEE, most recently as two-term chair of the prestigious “IEEE Dennis J. Pickard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications” Award Committee. 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. 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 Dr. 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. Dr. Widmayer 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 Ms. 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. Ms. Hernandez 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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