Improving the Efficiency of Engines for Large Nonfighter Aircraft (2007) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix A Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Appendix A Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
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General Eickrnann's recent accomplishments include selection as a distinguished engineering graduate of the University of Texas; selection for membership of the National Academy of Construction; selection as chairman of a General Of ricer Red Team, formed to review the logistics transformation efforts of the U.S. Air Force; and selection to serve on a National Research Council committee formed to evaluate the feasibility of achieving the science and technology requirements implied in the National Aerospace Initiative.
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In addition, she must ensure that the PAF workforce is not only matched to the Air Force's research needs but that it is renewed. She has worked at the RAND Corporation for 40+ years amd has deep, substantive technical and operational knowledge and experience in areas such as conventional weapons, attack and surveillance avionics, fighter amd bomber aircraft performance, aircraft survivability, electronic combat, theater missile defense, force modernization, space systems and capabilities, amd nongenetic operations.
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He serves on several national and international committees, including the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (ASEB) of the National Research Council, the FAA Research Engineenng and Development Committee, the Airspace Systems Program Subcommittee of the NASA Aerospace Research Advisory Committee, the AIAA Air Transportation Systems Technical Committee, and the Aircraft Noise Committee of the Society of Automotive Engineers.
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He is familiar with U.S. aircraft engine industry, government propulsion organizations, and propulsion technology programs and has expertise in propulsion engineenng, thermodynamics, aerodynamics, systems engineenng, and aircraft propulsion.
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and served in that position for over 12 years. In that capacity, he had total customer services responsibilities for all Airbus aircraft operating in North America, and spares and training responsibilities for all Airbus operators in the Western Hemisphere.
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Pnor to his appointment at the Naval Postgraduate School, he served for more than 22 years as an acquisition and contracting officer in the Air Force, retiring at the rank of lieutenant colonel. His Air Force career included assignments as a warranted contracting officer for the Peacekeeper intercontinental ballistic missile and the F-22 programs, a contracting squadron commander for an Air Force pilot training base, and the director of contracting for the Air Force's space surveillance satellite and space launch rocket programs.
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Louis University with a degree in aeronautical engineenng in 1964. Alan van Weele is currently senior platform technical advisor with responsibility for employing Northrop Grumman's extensive experience on the Boeing 707 developed during the Joint STARS program into other similar military platforms based on the B-707 aircraft.
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132 IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY OF ENGINES FOR LARGE NONFIGHI ER AIRCRAF/ industrial base issues. He has led studies that investigated the reasons for cost growth in F/A-22 aircraft and the issues surrounding the restart of the C-2 aircraft and shutdown of the E-2C production lines, and he assessed various deterministic and probabilistic methods of cost nsk estimations.
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