Official U.S. government information about the
Global Positioning System (GPS) and related topics
National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
Advisory Board
Membership, 2013-2015
The Advisory Board members were 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.
- James R. Schlesinger (Chair, 2013-2014), MITRE
- Bradford Parkinson (Vice Chair; Acting Chair, 2014-2015), Stanford University
- Thad Allen, Booz Allen Hamilton
- Penina Axelrad, University of Colorado
- John Betz, MITRE
- Dean Brenner, Qualcomm
- Joseph D. Burns, Sensurion Aerospace
- Per K. Enge, Stanford University
- Martin C. Faga, MITRE
- James E. Geringer, ESRI
- Ronald R. Hatch, consultant to John Deere
- Rajiv Khosla, Colorado State University
- Peter Marquez, Planetary Resources
- Terence J. McGurn, private consultant (retired CIA)
- Timothy A. Murphy, The Boeing Company
- Ruth Neilan, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- T. Russell Shields, Ygomi
Representatives
Representatives are individuals designated to speak on behalf of particular interest groups.
- Gerhard Beutler, International Association of Geodesy (Switzerland)
- Elizabeth Cannon, Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute (Canada)
- Ann Ciganer, GPS Innovation Alliance
- Arve Dimmen, Norwegian Coastal Administration (Norway)
- Matt Higgins, International GNSS Society (Australia)
- Hiroshi Nishiguchi, Japan GPS Council (Japan)
- Rafaat M. Rashad, Arab Institute of Navigation (Egypt)
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
