Dr. Todd Walter is a research professor in the department of aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford University, where he has been a member since 1993. His research focuses on implementing high-integrity air navigation systems.

Dr. Walter is one of the principal architects of the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) safety processing algorithms, including development of the ionospheric estimation and confidence bounding algorithm, as well as the WAAS integrity monitors. He has performed a similar role on the equivalent systems deployed in Japan and India. He also advises the FAA on alternate means to exploit satellite navigation signals to provide safety-of-life services more efficiently. He has authored 51 journal papers and 236 conference papers.

Dr. Walter is an active member of the Institute of Navigation (ION), having served in numerous positions including president of the institute and associate editor of the ION journal, Navigation. He is a Fellow of the ION. Additional honors include the Early Achievement Award (2000), Thurlow Award (2008) and Johannes Kepler Award (2010) from the ION. He holds a bachelor's degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and master's and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University.

Russ Shields is software leader with over 35 years in the automotive industry. Mr. Shields is a recognized leader in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and a leading participant in the development of worldwide regulations for connected and automated systems in vehicles.

Mr. Shields was President and CEO of RoadDB, which offers a full in-vehicle software solution for road database and localization to be used in automated driving in series production vehicles. Qualcomm acquire RoadDB in 2022. Mr. Shields continued as Senior Technical Advisor in Qualcomm Automotive through January 2023 as part of the acquisition.

Mr. Shields is former CEO of Navteq (now HERE), which pioneered the development of comprehensive, navigable map database and routing tools. Mr. Shields served as CEO until 2000, as a board member until 2004, and as an adviser to the CEO until 2008. Under his leadership, Navteq grew to more than an 80 percent market share in Europe and the U.S.

Other businesses that Mr. Shields founded or led include Shields Enterprises International, Cellular Business Systems, Inc. (CBSI, later Convergys), ArrayComm, and Ygomi.

Mr. Shields was also a founding officer and director of ITS America. He was a founder of the ITS World Congress and is a member of its board of directors. Mr. Shields served on or chaired multiple committees of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). He received the 1998 SAE Delco Electronics Intelligent Transportation Systems Award for distinguished service to the ITS industry, and was named an SAE Fellow in 2007. Mr. Shields was inducted into the inaugural class of ITS America's ITS Hall of Fame in 2008, and was named the inaugural U.S. member of the ITS World Congress Hall of Fame in 2010. In 2019, he was named an inaugural member of the FISITA Academy of Technical Leadership.

Mr. Shields is now Chair of the ITU Collaboration on ITS Communication Standards and ITU representative to the UNECE World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations (WP.29).

Mr. Shields was a founder of the organization that became the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA) and served as the President of the Automotive Multimedia Interface Collaboration (AMI-C). He served two terms as Chair of the Committee on Communications of the Transportation Research Board. Mr. Shields was Convenor of the international working group developing standards for vehicle-vehicle and vehicle-infrastructure communications (ISO/TC204/WG16).

Mr. Shields holds a BA from Wichita State University and an MA and MBA from the University of Chicago. In 2008, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business awarded Mr. Shields the Distinguished Alumni Award in the category of Entrepreneurship. In 2013, the Hotchkiss School awarded Mr. Shields its Alumni Award.

Mr. Murphy is a Boeing Senior Technical Fellow in the Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group, where he is a member of the Airplane Systems organization. He has more than 37 years of experience in the field of radio navigation and communications systems for civil aviation. The current focus of his work is avionics for new airplane product development, and next generation CNS technologies to support air traffic management. Mr. Murphy's primary expertise is in navigation systems including satellite navigation systems (GPS, GPS augmentations, GPS modernization, GPS Landing Systems) as well as conventional navigation systems (VOR, distance measuring equipment, ILS, etc.). He also has extensive experience and expertise in communications systems including satellite and ground based communications systems.

Mr. Murphy is very active in the development of domestic and international standards for use of satellite navigation, communications, and surveillance by commercial aviation. He is the panel member nominated by the International Coordinating Council of Aerospace Industries Association (ICCAIA) to the ICAO Navigation Systems Panel. He is the vice-chairman of the CNS/ATM subcommittee of ICCAIA, which coordinates all industry work within ICAO, a branch of the United Nations which deals with Standards and Recommended Practices to support safety and regularity civil aviation operations. Within ICAO in addition to the Navigation Systems Panel, he represents industry on the Global Aeronautical Distress and Safety System Advisory Group and the Integrated Communications, Navigation, Surveillance, and Spectrum Task Force. He has been an active participant within RTCA Inc (an aeronautical standards body), serving on five different special committees in the areas of Satellite Navigation, Satellite Communications, Radio Altimeter, Autonomous Air Vehicles and Automatic Flight Guidance and Control Systems.

Mr. Murphy is active in the Institute of Navigation (ION), where he is currently on the Executive Council as Western Vice President. He has published more than 50 papers and holds more than 20 patents with several more pending. He received a Bachelor's and a Master's in Electrical Engineering from Ohio University, where he was a Stocker fellow and graduate research intern associate at the Ohio University Avionics Engineering Center.

The Honorable James Geringer, a former governor of the State of Wyoming, is now Director of Policy and Public Sector Strategies for Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI). He has held this position since 2003, working with senior elected and corporate officials on how to use geospatial technology for place-based decisions in business and government.

Gov. Geringer is fond of saying that he is an engineer by education, farmer by choice and governor by accident. He has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Kansas State University that enabled 10 years active and 12 years reserve service in the U.S. Air Force working with unmanned space programs of Air Force and NASA. He worked on GPS, remote-sensing early detection/warning systems, the Interim Upper Stage for the Space Shuttle, the Mars Viking Lander, activation of the Peacekeeper missile system and disaster recovery from nuclear, biological and chemical warfare.

Upon leaving active duty, he signed on as contract administrator for the construction of a 1700 megawatt coal-fired electric power generation plant near Wheatland Wyoming, then took up agricultural pursuits along with serving in the Wyoming Legislature from 1983 to 1994, including six years each in the House and the Senate.

Gov. Geringer served two terms as Wyoming Governor during which he focused on improving education through standards, accountability and technology, modernizing Wyoming's economic base to extensively include technology, changing how natural resource agencies among state, federal and local governments worked together, establishing community-based health and family services programs and implementing strategic planning and information systems.

Gov. Geringer is a member of the Committee on America's Climate Choices under the National Academies, served on the Mapping Sciences Committee under the National Research Council; Western Interstate Energy Board; Association of Governing Boards for higher education; Operation Public Education; the Board of Governors of the Park City Center for Public Policy; Board member of NatureServe and, co-chair of the Policy Consensus Initiative. He is the current Chair of the Board of Trustees, Western Governors University.

Renato Filjar is a Full Professor of Electronics Engineering (Tenure) with the Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka, Croatia; Researcher with Laboratory for Data Mining, Open and Big Data, Center for Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia; and a Full Professor (Tenure), Head of Laboratory for Spatial Intelligence, and Vice-Dean for science and international cooperation at the Krapina University of Applied Sciences, Krapina, Croatia. He established and organized the traditional Baška GNSS conference, and Baška SIF (Spatial Information Fusion) Forum, held annually in Baška, Krk Island, Croatia.

His professional interests include: GNSS PNT; statistical, statistical and computer science framework for the Ambient-Aware Applications-Aligned (AA)2 PNT; spatial uncertainty quantification; spatial statistical analysis, statistical/machine learning and predictive modeling; trajectory analysis and prediction; occupancy detection and modeling; anomaly and change-point detection; statistical signal processing; Software-Defined Radio (SDR), and nature-inspired navigation.

Professor Filjar is committed to international science, research, development, commercialization, and education activities and initiatives related to satellite navigation, through his expert cooperation with the United Nations International Committee on GNSS (UN ICG) WG S and its IDM Sub-Group, International Space Weather Initiative (ISWI), European Commission, European Telecommunications Standardisation Institute (ETSI), and universities across the world.

Professor Filjar is a Fellow of The Royal Institute of Navigation (RIN), London, United Kingdom (UK), a Member of the Institute of Navigation (ION), a Senior Member of Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale, Ghent, Belgium, and a Member of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Philadelphia, PA. Professor Filjar was presented with the RIN J. E. D. Williams (Silver) Medal in 2010 and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the International TransNav Conference (Maritime University of Gdynia, Gdynia, Poland) in 2021. He holds BSc (1987), MSc (1994) and Ph.D. (2007) degrees in electrical engineering, respectively, from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia.

Professor Terry Moore OBE is an Emeritus Professor of the University of Nottingham. He was formerly the Director of the Nottingham Geospatial Institute (NGI) at the University, where he was the Professor of Satellite Navigation. He has many years of research experience in surveying, positioning and navigation technologies and remains a consultant and adviser to U.K., U.S., and European and. government organizations and industry.

He has directed numerous research projects funded by industry, research funding agencies, the European Space Agency and the European Commission, and has supervised over 40 successful PhD students. He is regularly involved in the activities of both national and international professional and scientific bodies and has taken a leading role in national and European initiatives aimed at integrating academic research, and teaching, with industry. He has worked with the UK Government on various initiatives related to PNT developments and policy. He was for many years a member of the GNSS Science Advisory Committee (GSAC) of the European Space Agency. He is a Chartered Engineer and is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors, a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and an Associate Fellow of the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society.

He is a Fellow and a Past President of the Royal Institute of Navigation (RIN) and he is also a Fellow and a Member of Council of the U S Institute of Navigation (ION). He is the Chair of Council of the European Group of Institutes of Navigation (EUGIN). In 2013 he was awarded the RIN Harold Spencer Jones Gold Medal, their highest honour, and in 2017 the ION Johannes Kepler Award. At the end of 2021 he was awarded the International Association of Institutes of Navigation (IAIN) John Harrison Award for Outstanding Contributions to Navigation. In the New Year Honours, of 2023, he was made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) by His Royal Highness King Charles III.

Dr. Jade Morton is Helen and Hubert Croft Professor and the Head of Satellite Navigation and Sensing Lab in the Ann and H. J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department at University of Colorado Boulder. Her research interests lie at the intersection of satellite navigation technologies and remote sensing of the Earth’s ionosphere, atmosphere, and surface properties.

Dr. Morton authored/co-authored over 350 technical publications and was the lead editor of Position, Navigation, and Timing Technologies in the 21st Century published by Wiley-IEEE Press. She was a President and Satellite Division Chair of the Institute of Navigation (ION), a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society, a recipient of AGU SPARC award, ION Burka, Thurlow, and Kepler award, and IEEE PLANS Richard Kershner award.

Dr. Morton received her PhD in electrical engineering from Penn State. She is a fellow of IEEE, ION, and UK’s Royal Institute of Navigation.

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

The Honorable Jeff Shane is the former General Counsel for the International Air Transport Association, which he joined in April 2013. In that role, he was responsible for managing IATA's Legal Services group, the delivery of legal support to IATA's operational units around the world, and for working with IATA's member airlines to address legal issues of importance to the industry at large. He retired from IATA in 2020, but continues to represent the organization on the Advisory Board.

Immediately prior to joining IATA, Mr. Shane was a partner at Hogan Lovells LLP in its Washington, DC office. In addition to his 14 years in private law practice, Mr. Shane had a long career in the U.S. Government. He held three Presidential appointments, including Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy between 2003 and 2008. In addition to other senior positions at the U.S. Department of Transportation, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Transportation Affairs for four years, where he served as chief U.S. aviation negotiator.

Recognized for his role in establishing an Open Skies aviation policy for the United States, Mr. Shane was also a principal architect of USDOT's approach to international aviation alliances and antitrust immunity. He was an early champion of the "NextGen" transformation of the U.S. air traffic control system, the acceleration of GPS modernization, and other technology initiatives to enhance the safety, security, and efficiency of aviation and other modes of transportation.

Mr. Shane was appointed a member of the Federal Aviation Administration's Management Advisory Council in September 2017. He has served as President of the triennial Assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organization, Chairman of the Commission on Air Transport of the Paris-based International Chamber of Commerce, Chairman of the Military Airlift Committee of the National Defense Transportation Association, and Chair of the American Bar Association's Forum on Air and Space Law. He taught for four years as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University.

The recipient of a number of professional recognitions, Mr. Shane is a graduate of Princeton and Columbia Law School. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Founex, Switzerland, near Geneva. 

J. David Grossman serves as Vice President of Regulatory Affairs for the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), the U.S. trade association representing approximately 1,500 consumer technology companies. In this role, he is responsible for representing the association before Federal agencies and the Administration by advocating for policies to encourage the growth of innovative consumer technologies. Mr. Grossman returned to CTA in 2021, after serving as a member of the organization's government affairs team earlier in his career.

From 2018-2021, Mr. Grossman served as Executive Director of the GPS Innovation Alliance, an organization dedicated to protecting, promoting and enhancing the use of the Global Positioning System (GPS). In that role, he tripled the association's membership, advanced the industry's policy priorities on Capitol Hill and before Federal agencies and the Administration, and expanded the association's educational outreach efforts.

Previously, Mr. Grossman spent nearly a decade in public service, including serving as Chief of Staff to FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn. While at the FCC, Mr. Grossman was responsible for managing the policy agenda, strategy and messaging for the Commissioner, including the development of a 13-city "Connecting Communities" listening tour.

Prior to the FCC, Mr. Grossman served as Legislative Director and Senior Advisor for Technology Policy to Rep. Anna Eshoo of Silicon Valley. In this role, he served as chief advisor to the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, managing a portfolio of issues ranging from broadband access and privacy to public safety and Internet governance. Mr. Grossman began his time on Capitol Hill as Technology Counsel to the U.S. House Small Business Committee under the leadership of Rep. Nydia Velázquez. During this time, he served as the Committee's lead advisor on technology and telecommunications policy.

Mr. Grossman began his career as a research analyst at Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel, P.L.L.C., where he supported the firm's telecommunications practice. Mr. Grossman holds a Master's Degree in Public Policy from George Mason University and a B.A. in Political Communication from George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs.