National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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Gregory D. Winfree

Mr. Winfree was appointed Agency Director of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) on December 15, 2016. TTI is a state agency and the largest and most comprehensive higher education-affiliated transportation research institute in the U.S. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Texas A&M University School of Law. In 2019, he was appointed to the Texas Connected and Automated Vehicle Task Force established by Texas Governor Greg Abbott.

Mr. Winfree joined the U.S. Department of Transportation's Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology in March 2010 as Chief Counsel and was later sworn in as the Assistant Secretary in January 2014. During his tenure, he also served as Deputy Administrator and Administrator of a predecessor agency, the Research and Innovative Technology Administration.

As Assistant Secretary, he was the senior executive responsible for a $450 million budget and oversaw more than 1,000 scientific, data analysis, and administrative staff members who support U.S. Department of Transportation's (USDOT) multi-modal transportation initiatives. The program offices under his purview included: the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center; the Research, Development and Technology Coordination Office; the Bureau of Transportation Statistics; the Positioning, Navigation, Timing and Spectrum Management Office; the Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office; and the Transportation Safety Institute.

Prior to his USDOT appointments, Mr. Winfree served as Corporate Counsel for several Fortune 500 corporations for 17 years that operated in a number of technical industries, including:

• Natural resources and metals (Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold, Phoenix, AZ);
• Pharmaceuticals (Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Collegeville, PA); and
• Chemicals and polymers (Union Carbide Corporation, Danbury CT).

Education

• J.D., Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 1989
• Sc.B., St. John's University, Jamaica, NY, 1986

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