Official U.S. government information about the
Global Positioning System (GPS) and related topics
National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
Advisory Board
Membership, 2017-2019
All 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.
- John Stenbit (Chair), MITRE
- Bradford Parkinson (Vice Chair), Stanford University
- James E. Geringer (Second Vice Chair), ESRI
- Thad Allen, Booz Allen Hamilton
- Penina Axelrad, University of Colorado
- John Betz, MITRE
- Dean Brenner, Qualcomm
- Scott Burgett, Garmin International
- Joseph D. Burns, Sensurion Aerospace
- Per K. Enge (until 2018), Stanford University
- Martin C. Faga, MITRE
- Ronald R. Hatch, consultant to John Deere
- Larry James, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Peter Marquez, Planetary Resources
- Terence J. McGurn, private consultant (retired CIA)
- Timothy A. Murphy, The Boeing Company
- Ruth Neilan (until 2018), 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)
- Sergio Camacho-Lara, United Nations Regional Education Center of Science and Space Technology - Latin America and Caribbean (Mexico)
- Ann Ciganer, GPS Innovation Alliance
- Arve Dimmen, Norwegian Coastal Administration (Norway)
- Dana Goward, Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation
- Matt Higgins, International GNSS Society (Australia)
- Refaat 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
Special Counselors
- Mr. Kirk Lewis, Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)
- Dr. Tom Powell, Aerospace
