National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
Advisory Board

Membership, 2017-2019

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.

• John Stenbit (Chair), former Assistant Secretary of Defense
• Bradford Parkinson (Vice Chair), Stanford University
• James E. Geringer (Second Vice Chair), Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)
• Thad Allen, Booz Allen Hamilton
• Penina Axelrad, University of Colorado
• John Betz, MITRE
• Dean Brenner, Qualcomm
• Scott Burgett, Garmin International
• Joseph D. Burns, Sensurion Aerospace
• Martin C. Faga, MITRE
• Ronald R. Hatch, consultant to John Deere
• Larry James, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Peter Marquez, Planetary Resources
• Terence J. McGurn, private consultant (retired CIA)
• Timothy A. Murphy, The Boeing Company
• T. Russell Shields, Ygomi

Representatives

Representatives are individuals designated to speak on behalf of particular interest groups.

• Gerhard Beutler, International Association of Geodesy (Switzerland)
• Sergio Camacho-Lara, United Nations Regional Education Center of Science and Space Technology - Latin America and Caribbean (Mexico)
• Ann Ciganer, GPS Innovation Alliance
• Arve Dimmen, Norwegian Coastal Administration (Norway)
• Dana Goward, Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation
• Matt Higgins, International GNSS Society (Australia)
• Refaat M. Rashad, Arab Institute of Navigation (Egypt)

Executive Director

The membership of the Advisory Board is administered by a designated federal officer appointed by the NASA Administrator:

• James J. Miller, Executive Director

Special Counselors

• Mr. Kirk Lewis, Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)
• Dr. Tom Powell, Aerospace

Past Membership Lists

• 2015 to 2017
• 2013 to 2015
• 2011 to 2013
• 2009 to 2011
• 2007 to 2009

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