ASEB Members

EX OFFICIO MEMBER: Chair, Space Studies Board

Dr. Charles F. Kennel (NAS), Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego,

Biographies

Raymond S. Colladay (Chair) is a retired corporate officer of the Lockheed Martin Corporation and the former president of the Lockheed Martin Astronautics Company in Denver. Before entering the private sector, he held positions of director of DARPA – the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense and was associate administrator of NASA where he had senior executive responsibility for the agency’s aeronautics and space research and technology development including operations oversight of Ames, Langley, Dryden, and Glenn Research Centers. Dr. Colladay started his aerospace career at NASA Glenn Research Center in propulsion R&D before moving to NASA Headquarters where he moved up through a number of leadership positions before being appointed Associate Administrator. He has been a member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board and various Defense Science Board summer studies. Currently, he owns an aerospace consulting company, RC Space Enterprises, Inc.; teaches leadership and ethics for the Colorado School of Mines; and serves on a number of steering committees, boards, and commissions. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and of the American Astronautical Society. Dr. Colladay is a former member of six NRC study groups, four of which he chaired.

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Kyle T. (Terry) Alfriend (NAE) is the TEES Distinguished Research Chair and professor of aerospace engineering at Texas A&M University. His primary areas of interests cover astrodynamics, satellite altitude dynamics and control, space debris, space surveillance, and space systems engineering, with current research focused on space surveillance and the dynamics and control of satellite formations. Dr. Alfriend has received many honors and awards including, the 2005 American Association for the Advancement of Science International Cooperation Award, the 1998 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Mechanics and Control of Flight Award, and 1989 AIAA Dirk Brouwer Award. He is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the AIAA and AAS. Dr. Alfriend served on the NRC Committee on the Future of the U.S. Aerospace Infrastructure and Aerospace Engineering Disciplines to Meet the Needs of the Air Force and the Department of Defense and the Committee on Space Shuttle Meteoroid/Debris Risk Management.

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Charles F. Bolden, Jr. is a retired USMC major general, and served as an independent defense and aerospace consultant. Selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in 1980, Mr. Bolden qualified as a space shuttle pilot astronaut in 1981 and subsequently flew four missions in space. As pilot of the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1990, Mr. Bolden and crew successfully deployed the Hubble Space Telescope. On his third mission in 1992, he commanded the Space Shuttle Atlantis on the first Space Laboratory (SPACELAB) mission dedicated to NASA's "Mission to Planet Earth". Immediately following this mission, Mr. Bolden was appointed assistant deputy administrator for NASA. He held this post until assigned as commander of STS-60, the 1994, the first joint U.S./Russian Space Shuttle mission. Upon completion of this fourth mission, Major General Bolden left the space program and returned to the operating forces of the U.S. Marine Corps as the Deputy Commandant of Midshipmen at the Naval Academy. His final active duty assignment was as Commanding General, Third Marine Aircraft Wing, headquartered at MCAS Miramar, San Diego, California. Mr. Bolden served on the NRC Committee on the Navy's Needs in Space for Providing Future Capabilities.

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Amy L. Buhrig is director of technology for Boeing Commercial Airplanes. She is responsible for leading the definition of technology required to enable future products and services, while ensuring the company’s investments are aligned with business unit strategy and industry economics. Integral to these responsibilities is working with organizations to develop the skills, processes, and tools necessary to enable the application of future technologies. Ms. Buhrig is also the primary interface between Boeing Commercial Airplanes and Phantom Works, the company’s research and development organization, to maximize the value derived from the company’s R&D activities. She has also worked at the Phantom Works, most recently leading a team to define the strategy for the Structural Technologies, Prototyping, and Quality organization. Other Phantom Works assignments included understanding enterprise wide technology needs in order to leverage venture capital investments, and pursuing research and development contracts for the Mathematics and Computing Technology organization. The first 20 years of Ms. Buhrig’s career were spent in Boeing Integrated Defense Systems. She performed studies to quantify the benefit of investing in novel design methods for the Boeing 777 and F-22 aircraft and assessed company strengths applicable to the commercial space market, and she was vice president of marketing and sales for Boeing’s Sea Launch Company.

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Pierre Chao is a senior fellow and director of Defense-Industrial Initiatives at CSIS where he directs a team of five focused on policy issues related to the defense industrial base, including defense industrial policy, acquisition reform, trans-Atlantic relations, export controls, and technology/innovation policy. He is also a Managing Partner and co-founder of Renaissance Strategic Advisors. Before joining CSIS in 2003, Mr. Chao was a managing director and senior aerospace/defense analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston (1999-2003), where he was responsible for following the U.S. and global aerospace/defense industry. He remained a CSFB independent senior adviser (2003-2006). Prior to joining CSFB, he was the senior aerospace/defense analyst at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter (1995-1999). He served as the senior aerospace/defense industry analyst at Smith Barney during 1994 and as a director at JSA International, a Boston/Paris-based management-consulting firm that focused on the aerospace/defense industry (1986-1988 and 1990-1993). Pierre was also a co-founder of JSA Research, an equity research boutique specializing in the aerospace/defense industry. Before signing on with JSA, he worked in the New York and London offices of Prudential-Bache Capital Funding as a mergers and acquisitions banker focusing on aerospace/defense (1988-9190). In 2000, Mr. Chao was appointed to the Presidential Commission on Offsets in International Trade. He was a member of the 2005 Defense Science Board Summer Study (Assessment of Transformation), the 2006 DSB Summer Study (Strategic Technology Vectors), and the 2006/2007 DSB Task Force on the Health of the Defense Industry. He was also a member of a NRC Committee on Critical Technology Accessibility. He is also a guest lecturer at the National Defense University and the Defense Acquisition University.

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Inderjit Chopra is the Alfred Gessow Professor of Aerospace Engineering and director of the Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center at the University of Maryland. His studies include work on various fundamental problems related to aeromechancis of helicopters including aeromechanical stability, active vibration control, modeling of composite blades, rotor head health monitoring, aeroelastic optimization, smart structures, micro air vehicles, and comprehensive aeromechanics analyses of bearingless, tilt-rotor, servo-flap, compound, teetering and circulation control rotors. Prior to teaching, Mr. Chopra spent over four years at NASA Ames/Stanford University Joint Institute of Aeronautics & Acoustics working on the development of aeroelastic analyses and testing of advanced helicopter rotor systems. Mr. Chopra served on the NRC Panel C: Structures and Materials of the Steering Committee on Decadal Survey of Civil Aeronautics.

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John-Paul B. Clarke is an Associate Professor in the School of Aerospace Engineering and Director of the Air Transportation Laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research and teaching in the areas of control, optimization, and system analysis and design are motivated by his desire to simultaneously maximize the efficiency and minimize the societal impact (especially on the environment) of the global air transportation system. He has made seminal contributions in the areas of air traffic management, aircraft operations, and airline operations – three key elements of the air transportation system – and has been recognized globally for developing, among other things, the analytical foundations for the Continuous Descent Arrival (CDA) and novel concepts for robust airline scheduling. His research has resulted in significant changes in engineering methods, processes and products – most notably the development of new arrival procedures for four major US airports and one European Airport, and changes in airline scheduling practices. Dr. Clarke is an Associate Fellow of AIAA and a member of AGIFORS, INFORMS, and Sigma Xi. He serves or has served on several national and international committees including the AAA Air Transportation Systems Technical Committee and the AIAA Technical Committee on Management. He was the first director of PARTNER, the Center of Excellence for Aviation Noise and Aircraft Emissions Mitigation, and is a researcher in PARTNER and NEXTOR, the Center of Excellence for Aviation Operations Research. Dr. Clarke was awarded the AIAA/AAAE/ACC Jay Hollingsworth Speas Airport Award in 1999, the FAA Excellence in Aviation Award in 2003, and was selected as a Gilbreth Lecturer by the National Academy of Engineering in 2006.

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Ravi B. Deo is the Director, Technology, Space Systems Market Segment at Northrop Grumman Corporation's Integrated Systems Sector. He has worked as a program and functional manager for government and company sponsored projects on Cryotanks, Integrated System Health Management, Aerospace Structures, Materials, Subsystems, Avionics, Thermal Protection Systems, and software development. He has extensive experience in roadmapping technologies, program planning, technical program execution, scheduling, budgeting, proposal preparation, and business management of technology development contracts. Among his significant accomplishments are the NASA funded SLI, NGLT, OSP, and High Speed Research programs where he was responsible for the development of multidisciplinary technologies. Dr. Deo is the author of over 50 technical publications and is the editor of one book. He served on the NRC Panel C: Structures and Materials of the Steering Committee on Decadal Survey of Civil Aeronautics and the Panel J: High-Energy Power and Propulsion and In-space Transportation of the Committee for the Review of NASA's Capability Roadmaps. He has also served on the Scientific Advisory Board to the Air Force Research Laboratories.

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Mica R. Endsley is recognized as a pioneer and world leader in the study and application of situation awareness in advanced systems, including air traffic control systems. Dr. Endsley is the author of over 200 scientific articles and reports on situation awareness. She is the co-author of Designing for Situation Awareness (2003) and speaks extensively at conferences. As founder and president of SA Technologies, Dr. Endsley leads a team of researchers, designers, and engineers, providing research, advanced system design, and seminars in situation awareness. Dr. Endsley served on the NRC Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board Panel on Soldier Systems and the Committee on Human-Systems Integration Panel on Human Factors in the Design of Tactical Display Systems for the Individual Soldier.

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David Goldston is a visiting lecturer in Center for the Environment at Harvard University. Prior to joining the Center, he was a visiting lecturer in the in the Science, Technology and Environmental Policy Program at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He also writes the monthly column "Party of One" on Congress and science policy for Nature, and he is serving on a number of panels preparing reports on science policy issues, including a study by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on grantmaking and a study by the American Physical Society on energy efficiency. Mr. Goldston was chief of staff of the U.S. House Committee on Science (2001-2006) where he oversaw a committee that has jurisdiction over most of the federal civilian research and development budget, including programs run by NASA, NSF, DOE, DOC, and EPA. Prior to becoming staff director, Mr. Goldston was legislative director for Congressman Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY), who became chair of the Science Committee in January, 2001. As legislative director, Mr. Goldston was Congressman Boehlert’s top environmental aide and also oversaw the legislative and press operations of the office. Mr. Goldston came to Capitol Hill in 1983 as Boehlert’s press secretary. From 1985 to 1994, he served on the Science Committee as the special assistant on the Subcommittee on Science, Research and Technology where he oversaw the programs of NSF and NIST. In 1994 and 1995, Mr. Goldston was project director at the Council on Competitiveness, a private sector group with members from industry, labor and academia. He directed work on the report, Endless Frontier, Limited Resources: U.S. R&D Policy for Competitiveness.

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R. John Hansman Jr. is a professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he is head of the Humans and Automation Division. He is also director of the International Center for Air Transportation. In addition to teaching, Dr. Hansman conducts research in several areas related to air transportation, flight vehicle operations and safety. His current research activities focus on information technology applied to air transportation systems, air traffic control, integrated human-automation systems, advanced vehicles, and advanced cockpit information systems. He is also an internationally recognized expert in aviation meteorological hazards such as icing and windshear. Dr. Hansman served on the NRC Committee to Identify Potential Breakthrough Technologies and Assess Long-Term R&D Goals in Aeronautics and Space Transportation Technology and the Committee on the Effects of Aircraft-Pilot Coupling on Flight Safety.

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John B. Hayhurst retired in 2004 as senior vice president of the Boeing Company and president of Boeing Air Traffic Management after 33 years at Boeing. Mr. Hayhurst joined Boeing in 1969 as a customer support engineer. He held positions of increasing responsibility related to commercial airplanes and in 1987 was promoted to vice president of marketing. In this position, he played a significant role in the launch of the Boeing 777. Subsequently, he was responsible for leading teams planning the design, development, and manufacture of aircraft larger than the Boeing 747. In addition to the previously noted Boeing positions, Mr. Hayhurst also served as vice president of business development for the Commercial Airplane Services business unit of Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group (BCAG); vice president and general manager of 737 programs; general manager of the BCAG production site in Renton, Washington; and vice president-general manager of the Boeing 747-500X/600X program. Mr. Hayhurst is a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. His most recent NRC membership service includes the Committee for the Evaluation of NASA's Fundamental Aeronautics Research Program and the Organizing Committee for the Workshop on Assessing the Research and Development Plan for the Next Generation Air Transportation System.

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Preston Henne (NAE) is senior vice president for programs, engineering, and test at Gulfstream. As senior vice president, he is responsible for Gulfstream’s product program management, engineering, and flight operations. He also is a vice president of General Dynamics Corp. He began his aerospace career in 1969 at McDonnell Douglas, where he managed several advanced programs in aerodynamics and acoustics for both military and commercial aircraft. Known for his work in advanced aerodynamic technology, he was responsible for the aerodynamic design of the wing on the C-17, which was considered the most versatile aircraft in airlift history and winner of the 1994 Collier Trophy for aeronautical achievement. He later served as chief design engineer for the MD-80 aircraft. In 1991, he became vice president and general manager of the MD-90 Program at McDonnell Douglas’ Long Beach Douglas Aircraft facility, where he oversaw the aircraft’s complete development and certification process. Joining Gulfstream in 1994, Mr. Henne is credited with the design, development, test and certification of the Gulfstream V aircraft that was awarded the Collier Trophy for greatest aeronautical achievement in America in 1997. Mr. Henne is a member of the Innovation Leadership Advisory Board (ILAB) at the University of Illinois’ College of Engineering and of the Georgia Tech Research Corporation Board of Trustees. He is a fellow of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. His awards include the AIAA Engineer of the Year Award in 1996 and the AIAA Hap Arnold Award in 2001 for excellence in aeronautical program management.

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Richard Kohrs has over 50 years of experience in systems engineering and integration of NASA Apollo, Shuttle, Space Station, and Commercial Programs. He retired from NASA as director of Space Station Freedom where he had overall responsibility for development and operation of the program. He was deputy director for the space shuttle program where he managed the daily engineering processing, and operations activities. Earlier he led the systems integration of the Shuttle Program, with responsibility for vehicle integration of Orbiter, Main Engines, External Tank, Solid Rocket Boosters, and the Ground System. After retirement from NASA he served as vice president of International Activities for ANSER and director of International Aerospace Cooperation for ANSER. From 1997 to 2005, he served as chief engineer of Kistler Aerospace with overall responsibility for technical integration of the seven major subcontractors and systems engineering and integration of the Kistler reusable launch vehicle. From 2006 to 2007, he served as program manager of SAGES (Shuttle/Apollo Generation Expert Services) for SAIC. This activity provides the NASA Constellation Program access to retired senior personnel from Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Shuttle Programs.

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Ivett A. Leyva is a senior aerospace engineer in the Aerophysics Branch of the Space and Missile Propulsion Division of the Air Force Research Laboratory. There she focuses on the design of liquid rocket engines. She is an experimentalist, and currently studies the effects of acoustic fields on coaxial jets. She also works in the area of hypersonic boundary layer transition. Previously, she was a senior aerodynamicist at Microcosm, Inc. where she was responsible for the development of ablative chambers and also performed numerical/analytical studies of Microcosm’s launch vehicles’ subcomponents. Prior to Microcosm she was employed at General Electric’s (GE’s) Global Research Center where she led the design, development, and testing of several pulse detonation concepts. There, she coordinated joint projects with scientists from the former Soviet Union. Dr. Leyva holds several patents in the U.S. and Europe in the area of propulsion. She served on the NRC Committee on Air Force/Department of Defense Aerospace Propulsion and the Steering Committee on Decadal Survey of Civil Aeronautics.

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Elaine S. Oran (NAE) is the Senior Scientist for Reactive Flow Physics at the Naval Research Laboratory. As Senior Scientist, Dr. Oran's research includes development of numerical algorithms and the use of these algorithms in computerized models that describe a wide variety of complex fluid systems. These systems are used in research and applications ranging from microfluidics to astrophysics and cosmology. Her current work applies these simulation methods to design micron-sized devices for use in biosensors; design of micro-propulsion systems for use in air vehicles, space and planetary exploration; hazard reduction involved in the storage and handling of energetic materials including hydrogen fuels; basic physics of combustion processes involving flames; detonations and the transition to denotations; and explosions of supernovae. She was elected to the NAE for unifying engineering, scientific, and mathematical disciplines into a computational methodology to solve challenging aerospace combustion problems. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

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Eli Reshotko (NAE) is the Kent H. Smith Professor Emeritus of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University. His area of expertise is viscous effects in external and internal aerodynamics; two- and three-dimensional compressible boundary layers and heat transfer; stability and transition of viscous flows, both incompressible and compressible; and low-drag technology for aircraft and underwater vehicles. He has expertise in propulsion engineering, thermodynamics, aerodynamics, and aircraft propulsion. He is a fellow of the AIAA, ASME, the American Physical Society, and the American Academy of Mechanics, for which he served as president. He is co-author of more than 100 publications and is affiliated with many task forces, committees, and governing boards, and on several he served as chair. Dr. Reshotko currently serves as the NAE Section 1 liaison members chair and his NRC service includes membership on the Committee for the Evaluation of NASA's Fundamental Aeronautics Research Program, the Committee on Analysis of Air Force Engine Efficiency Improvement Options for Large Non-Fighter Aircraft, and the Committee on Assessment of Aircraft Winglets for Large Aircraft Fuel Efficiency.

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Edmond L. Soliday was employed by United Airlines for over 35 years as a pilot, human factors instructor, flight manager, and staff executive, serving the last eleven as vice president of safety, quality assurance and security. He has served on numerous aviation safety related advisory boards and commissions, and he has chaired the Commercial Aviation Safety Team, the Air Transport Association Safety Council, the Star Alliance Safety Committee, and the ATA Environmental Committee. Captain Soliday formerly served on the Executive Board of the Flight Safety Foundation. He currently serves on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Global Airline Industry Program Advisory Group and is an Indiana State Representative serving on the Transportation, Commerce, Energy, and Technology committees. Among his awards are the Bendix Trophy, the Vanguard Trophy, and the Laura Tabor Barbour International Air Safety Award. Capt. Mr. Soliday has previously served on four NRC study committees.

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