Official U.S. government information about the
Global Positioning System (GPS) and related topics
National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
Advisory Board
Membership, 2019-2021
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.
- Thad Allen (Chairman), Booz Allen Hamilton
- John Stenbit (Deputy Chairman), former Assistant Secretary of Defense
- Bradford Parkinson (1st Vice Chair), Stanford University
- James E. Geringer (2nd Vice Chair), Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)
- Penina Axelrad, University of Colorado
- John Betz, MITRE
- Scott Burgett, Garmin International
- Joseph D. Burns, Airo Drone
- Patrick Diamond, Diamond Consulting
- Dorota A. Grejner-Brzezinska, The Ohio State University
- Larry James, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Timothy A. Murphy, The Boeing Company
- T. Russell Shields, RoadDB
- Gary Thompson, North Carolina Emergency Management/Geodetic Survey
- Frank van Diggelen, Google
- Todd Walter, Stanford University
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)
- Dana Goward, Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation
- Matt Higgins, International GNSS Society (Australia)
- Terry Moore, University of Nottingham (UK)
- Refaat M. Rashad, Arab Institute of Navigation (Egypt)
- Jeffrey N. Shane, International Air Transportation Association
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
Subject Matter Experts
- Martin Faga, former CEO, The MITRE Corporation
- Kirk Lewis, Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)
- Tom Powell, Aerospace
- Brian Ramsay, The MITRE Corporation (retired)
