APPENDIX B
Biographical Sketches of Steering Committee Members
William W. Hoover (chair) is the former executive vice president of the Air Transport Association of America and is a retired U.S. Air Force major general. At the Air Transport Association, he was responsible for all aspects of the association's activities, including development and implementation of wide-ranging airline policies. While on active duty, Gen. Hoover spent four years in the U.S. Air Force space program, was a combat air wing commander in Vietnam, and later served as deputy assistant secretary for military applications in the U.S. Department of Energy. Upon retiring from the Air Force, he served as assistant secretary, Defense Programs, U.S. Department of Energy, and was responsible for the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Program. He has a B.S. degree in engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy and an M.S. degree in aeronautical engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology.
Guion S. Bluford, Jr., is vice president and general manager of the Engineering Services Division of NYMA, Inc. As a retired colonel in the U.S. Air Force and a former astronaut, he has an extensive aeronautics background. Operational experience includes 65 combat missions over North Vietnam, duties as an Air Force instructor pilot, and four space flights as a shuttle mission specialist. Dr. Bluford's research activities include computational fluid dynamic studies of advanced aeronautical concepts at the Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory. He has a B.S. degree in aerospace engineering from Pennsylvania State University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in aerospace engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology.
Richard S. Golaszewski is executive vice president of GRA, Inc., where he specializes in aviation economics, safety, and public policy and studies the economics of airports, airlines, and aircraft manufacturing and safety. Before joining GRA, Inc. as an economist in 1977, he was a lecturer at La Salle College, where he received a B.S. degree in accounting, and a lecturer at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he received an M.P.A. degree. Mr. Golaszewski is a member of the Aviation Economics and Forecasting Committee of the National Research Council Transportation Research Board, the Economics Technical Committee of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the American Helicopter Society, the Air Traffic Control Association, and is aviation editor of the Journal of the Transportation Research Forum.
William H. Heiser has extensive industrial engineering and management experience with Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, General Electric, and Aerojet General. In the 1970s, he was chief scientist at the Air Force Aeropropulsion Laboratory and the Arnold Engineering Development Center. Dr. Heiser has been professor of aeronautics at the U.S. Air Force Academy since 1989, a member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board since 1992, and chairman of the U.S. Air Force Pratt & Whitney F-119 Executive Independent Review Team since 1993. He has a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the Cooper Union, an M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Grace M. Robertson is vice president-general manager, Developmental Programs for the Douglas Aircraft Company. Prior to joining this company in 1994, Ms. Robertson spent 17 years at Boeing, moving up in management after beginning as an avionics design engineer. She received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wyoming and an M.S. degree in management from Stanford University, where she was selected as a Sloan fellow.
Jeffrey K. Schweitzer is manager, Conceptual Design & Systems Engineering, United Technologies/Pratt & Whitney. In this position he is responsible for the conceptual design definition of advanced gas turbine and rocket propulsion systems and the long-range technology planning required to support future product and business strategies. Mr. Schweitzer began his career with Pratt & Whitney as an experimental engineer in 1972. He has a B.S. degree in aerospace engineering from Pennsylvania State University.
Thomas B. Sheridan is a professor of aeronautics and astronautics and a professor of engineering and applied psychology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a former president of the Human Factors Society and a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Dr. Sheridan is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and is currently serving on the National Research Council Panel on Human Factors in Air Traffic Control Automation.
Robert E. Spitzer is currently vice president for engineering of the Boeing Commercial Airplane Group. In this position he leads company efforts to gain enabling technologies and maintain technical excellence and is responsible for a broad range of research and development-related activities. Mr. Spitzer has been an employee of Boeing since 1965 and has worked in a number of military and commercial research and development programs. He has engineering degrees from the University of Illinois and the California Institute of Technology.