Joseph "Joe" Wright is an American businessman. From 1988 to 1989,he worked in the United States government as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget for president Ronald Reagan.
Norman Ralph "Norm" Augustine is a U.S. aerospace businessman who served as United States Under Secretary of the Army from 1975 to 1977. Augustine served as chairman and CEO of the Lockheed Martin Corporation. He was chairman of the Review of United States Human Space Flight Plans Committee.
William James Crowe Jr. was a United States Navy admiral and diplomat who served as the 11th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush,and as the ambassador to the United Kingdom and Chair of the Intelligence Oversight Board under President Bill Clinton.
Ashton Baldwin Carter was an American government official and academic who served as the 25th United States secretary of defense from February 2015 to January 2017. He later served as director of the Belfer Center for Science &International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School.
General Larry D. Welch is a retired United States Air Force four-star general who served as the 12th Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force. As Chief of Staff,he served as the senior uniformed Air Force officer responsible for the organization,training and equipping of a combined active duty,Guard,Reserve and civilian force serving at locations in the United States and overseas. As a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,he and the other service chiefs functioned as the principal military advisers to the Secretary of Defense,National Security Council and the President. He currently serves as the Chairman of the Nuclear Weapon Surety Task Force for the Defense Science Board.
William Birrell Franke was an American businessman and government official. He was best known for his service as United States Secretary of the Navy from 1959 to 1961 under Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Richard Jeffrey Danzig is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 71st Secretary of the Navy under President Bill Clinton. He served as an advisor of the President Barack Obama during his presidential campaign and was later the chairman of the national security think-tank,the Center for a New American Security.
Robert Michael Kimmitt was United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury under President George W. Bush. He was nominated by President Bush on June 29,2005. The United States Senate unanimously confirmed him on July 29,2005,and he was sworn into office on August 16,2005. Kimmitt served through the end of the Bush administration,leaving office on January 20,2009.
Shyam Saran is an Indian career diplomat. He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1970 and rose to become the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India. Prior to his appointment as the Foreign Secretary he served as India's ambassador to Myanmar,Indonesia and Nepal and as its High Commissioner to Mauritius. Upon finishing his tenure as the Foreign Secretary,he was appointed the Prime Minister's Special Envoy for Indo-US Civil Nuclear Issues and later as Special Envoy and Chief Negotiator on Climate Change.
Executive Schedule is the system of salaries given to the highest-ranked appointed officials in the executive branch of the U.S. government. The president of the United States appoints individuals to these positions,most with the advice and consent of the United States Senate. They include members of the president's Cabinet,several top-ranking officials of each executive department,the directors of some of the more prominent departmental and independent agencies,and several members of the Executive Office of the President.
Donald Blessing Rice,Jr. is an American businessman and senior government official. He has been president and chief executive officer of several large companies including RAND Corporation,and has sat on numerous boards of directors,including Wells Fargo &Company. Rice also served as the 17th Secretary of the Air Force,from 1989 to 1993.
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.
Charles B. Curtis is an American lawyer,currently senior advisor (nonresident) to the Center for Strategic and International Studies,vice chair of the United States Department of State's International Security Advisory Board,2011 through 2017,former member of the National Academies Intelligence Science and Technology Experts Group,and President Emeritus of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI),a non-profit organization working to reduce the threats from nuclear,biological and chemical weapons. In addition to working in private practice for more than sixteen years,Curtis served as the last chairman of the Federal Power Commission and the first chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from 1977 to 1981. In 1994 he was appointed and confirmed as undersecretary and then deputy secretary of the US Department of Energy. He has held positions on the staff of the U.S. House of Representatives,the U.S. Treasury Department,and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
George Joseph is an Indian space scientist,best known for his contributions to the development of remote sensing technology in India,especially Earth observation sensors. He is a former chairman of the Lunar Mission Study Task Force of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences,India,Indian Academy of Sciences and Indian National Academy of Engineering. The Government of India awarded him the Padma Bhushan,the third highest civilian award,in 1999.
Peter Bruce Lyons was confirmed by the US Senate as the Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy on April 14,2011. He was appointed to his previous role as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Office of Nuclear Energy in September,2009. As Assistant Secretary,Dr. Lyons was responsible for all programs and activities of the Office of Nuclear Energy. He retired from the Department of Energy on June 30,2015.
John Stuart Foster Jr. is an American physicist,best known as the fourth director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and as Director,Defense Research and Engineering under four Secretaries of Defense and two Presidents.
Stephen Joseph Lukasik was an American physicist who served in multiple high-level defense and scientific related positions for advancing the technologies and techniques for national defense and the detection and control of diverse types of weapons of mass destruction,especially nuclear devices. He was the second longest serving Director of DARPA - the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency –during which numerous new technologies including packet and internet protocols were developed. He was also the first chief scientist of the Federal Communications Commission where he created its Office of Science and Technology and which facilitated the commercial deployment of new technology that included spread spectrum technology.
Warren Fletcher "Pete" Miller Jr. is an American nuclear engineer known for his work in the areas of computational physics,radioactive waste management,transport theory,nuclear reactor design and analysis,and the management of nuclear research and development programs.
Arthur "Art" L. Money is an American engineer,businessman and government official who served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command,Control,Communications and Intelligence from 7 October 1999 to 7 April 2001. He concurrently served as the Department of Defense's Chief Information Officer (CIO) from February 1998 to April 2001.
