Official U.S. Government information about the
National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
Advisory Board
Membership, 2013-2015
All Advisory Board members have been appointed to serve as either Special Government Employees (SGE's) or Representatives. SGE's and Representatives abide by different standards of ethical conduct.
Special Government Employees
SGE's are experts from industry or academia who temporarily receive federal employee status during Advisory Board meetings.
- James R. Schlesinger (Chair), MITRE
- Bradford Parkinson (Vice Chair), Stanford University
- Thad Allen, Booz Allen Hamilton
- Penina Axelrad, University of Colorado
- John Betz, MITRE
- Dean Brenner, Qualcomm
- Joseph D. Burns, United Airlines
- Richard DalBello, Intelsat General
- Per K. Enge, Stanford University
- Martin C. Faga, MITRE
- James E. Geringer, ESRI
- Ronald R. Hatch, NavCom Technology, John Deere
- Rajiv Khosla, Colorado State University
- Peter Marquez, Ascending Node
- Terence J. McGurn, private consultant (retired CIA)
- Timothy A. Murphy, The Boeing Company
- Ruth Neilan, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- T. Russell Shields, Ygomi
Representatives
Representatives are individuals designated to speak on behalf of particular interest groups.
- Gerhard Beutler, International Association of Geodesy (Switzerland)
- Elizabeth Cannon, Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute (Canada)
- Ann Ciganer, U.S. GPS Industry Council
- Arve Dimmen, Norwegian Coastal Administration (Norway)
- Matt Higgins, International GNSS Society (Australia)
- Hiroshi Nishiguchi, Japan GPS Council (Japan)
- Rafaat M. Rashad, Arab Institute of Navigation (Egypt)
