Leon N. Cooper is an American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate who,with John Bardeen and John Robert Schrieffer,developed the BCS theory of superconductivity. His name is also associated with the Cooper pair and co-developer of the BCM theory of synaptic plasticity.
Robert Alan Frosch FREng was an American scientist who was the fifth administrator of NASA. He was the administrator from 1977 to 1981 during the Carter administration.
Ronald "Ron" Michael Sega (Ph.D.) is professor of systems engineering and Vice President for Energy and the Environment at the Colorado State University Research Foundation,a non-profit advocacy organization supporting CSU. He is also the Vice President and Enterprise Executive for Energy and Environment at Ohio State University. From August 2005 to August 2007,he served as Under Secretary of the Air Force. He is a retired major general in the United States Air Force and a former NASA astronaut. Sega was born in Cleveland,Ohio,he is of Slovene origin. He was married to fellow astronaut Bonnie J. Dunbar. He is now married to Ann Sega and they have two sons. He has lived in both Northfield,Ohio and Colorado Springs.
Anthony J. Tether served as Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) from June 18,2001,until February 20,2009. As Director,Dr. Tether was responsible for management of the Agency's projects for high-payoff,innovative research and development. In 2020,he became a consultant with MISTRAS Group,USA.
Yuval Ne'eman was an Israeli theoretical physicist,military scientist,and politician. He was Minister of Science and Development in the 1980s and early 1990s. He was the President of Tel Aviv University from 1971 to 1977. He was awarded the Israel Prize in the field of exact sciences,the Albert Einstein Award,the Wigner Medal,and the EMET Prize for Arts,Sciences and Culture.
Hans Michael Mark was a German-born American government official who served as Secretary of the Air Force and as a Deputy Administrator of NASA. He was an expert and consultant in aerospace design and national defense policy.
Cornelius Francis "Neal" Lane,is a U.S. physicist and Senior Fellow in Science and Technology Policy at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy and Malcolm Gillis University Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy Emeritus at Rice University in Houston,Texas.
William A. Jeffrey is the CEO of SRI International,a position he has held since September 2014. He is an astronomer and astrophysicist by education.
Isaac Ben-Israel is an Israeli military scientist,general,politician and state official. He currently serves as the chairman of the Israeli Space Agency and the National Council for Research and Development,under the auspices of the Ministry of Science,Technology and Space of Israel. He finished his service in the IDF ranked General,serving as head of the military Administration for the Development of Weapons and the Technological Industry. Between 2010 and 2012 he served as chief Cybernetics adviser to PM Netanyahu,during which period he founded the National Cyber Bureau in the PM office and launched the National Cyber Initiative. Ben-Israel is now head of the Security Studies program in Tel Aviv University,where he also heads the annual international Cyber Security conference. Between 2007 and 2009 he served as a member of the Knesset for Kadima. Ben-Israel is one of Israel's top experts on Space,Cyber and technological related security. He holds a PhD in Philosophy and a BSc in Physics and Mathematics from Tel Aviv University. In 2020,he declared that Covid-19 would play itself out within seventy days,regardless of intervention levels.
The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) is a panel of experts that reports to the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. It is tasked with recommending policies on such questions as how to prevent published research in biotechnology from aiding terrorism,without slowing scientific progress.
John Alexander Gordon was an American air force general who served as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He also served as the President's Homeland Security advisor from 2003 to 2004.
George Harry Heilmeier was an American engineer,manager,and a pioneering contributor to liquid crystal displays (LCDs),for which he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Heilmeier's work is an IEEE Milestone.
Alexander Henry Flax was the Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force (USAF) from 1959 to 1961,Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Research and Development from 1963 to 1969,and the third Director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) from 1965 to 1969. He was the director at a time when the second generation of imaging systems became operational and began to play a major role in United States intelligence during the Cold War. He oversaw major growth in NRO funding and personnel,the development of signals intelligence collectors from space,and the development of electro-optical imaging for US reconnaissance satellites.
The Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering,abbreviated USD (R&E),is a senior official of the United States Department of Defense. The USD (R&E) is charged with the development and oversight of technology strategy for the DoD. The post has at various times had the titles Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering,or Director of Defense Research and Engineering (DDR&E). The latter title has itself historically varied between the rank of under secretary and that of assistant secretary.
Charles Louis Critchfield was an American mathematical physicist. A graduate of George Washington University,where he earned his PhD in Physics under the direction of Edward Teller in 1939,he conducted research in ballistics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the Ballistic Research Laboratory at the Aberdeen Proving Ground,and received three patents for improved sabot designs.
Patrick G. Carrick is a member of the Senior Executive Service and an academic.
Victor Herbert Reis is a technologist and former U.S. government official,best known as the architect and original sponsor of the U.S. nuclear Stockpile Stewardship Program and its associated Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI),which resulted in the creation of several new generations of government-sponsored supercomputers.
Paul Garrett Kaminski is a technologist and former U.S. government official,best known for his leading role in the development of stealth aircraft.
Geoffrey S. F. Ling,M.D.,Ph.D.,is the CEO of On Demand Pharmaceuticals. He is also a medical doctor who retired from the United States Army as a colonel. He served as the founding director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Biological Technologies Office from 2014 until 2016. He was considered to be the "US Army's premier subject matter expert on traumatic brain injury (TBI)",and was for years the only neuro-intensive care specialist in the US military.
The Space Development Agency (SDA) began as a directorate of the United States Department of Defense's office of the under secretary of defense for research and engineering which supports space development in the interests of U.S. national security. By design,the functions for acquisition and sustainment (A&S) are the responsibility of another under secretary of defense;this separation of function decouples the technology development of a working prototype system,even the systems as complicated as those taken on by the SDA,from overcomplication induced by the processes of the DoD.
