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Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Pages 41-50
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Before he retired from the U.S. Navy, RADM Fisher served concurrently as director of the Communications Acquisition and Operations Directorate within the National Reconnaissance Office, commander of the SPAWAR Space Field Activity for the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, naval program executive officer (PEO)
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He was a member of the DOD Executive Committee and Defense Planning and Resources Board as well as chairman of the Defense Acquisition Board and the Defense Ethics Council. During his tenure with Ford Motor Company, his responsibilities included executive vice president of the Diversified Products Operation with responsibility for 12 businesses with total revenues of $13 billion (1988 dollars)
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Blake served as the leader and technical expert of several key systems engineering efforts, including Enterprise Standard Planning Package Development, F-35 Functional Baseline Development, and the Aerial Common Sensor LM Aero Independent Review Team. He has served as a systems engineering technical authority in support of many LM Aero key programs and is widely acknowledged as a company expert on systems engineering matters.
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Under his leadership, Solutions has provided change management services and/or acquisition reform training to many federal departments and agencies and other public service entities. He also has advised firms, congressional committees, and federal and state agencies on management and acquisition reform matters and regularly speaks to groups on related topics.
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His work on centralized control of defense acquisition programs was used by the Defense Science Board in its 2005 report on management oversight in acquisition organizations and was again cited in the study Beyond GoldwaterNichols on defense acquisition reform by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. His current research is oriented to spiral development and computational modeling of evolutionary acquisition.
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General Kenne also serves on the National Research Council's Air Force Studies Board, which performs studies on topics selected by Air Force leadership. General Kenne graduated from Auburn University with a degree in aerospace engineering and entered the Air Force in 1971 as a distinguished graduate of the ROTC program.
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Sage (NAE) is the founding dean emeritus of the School of Information Technology and Engineering and a professor at George Mason University.
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He was the DOD sponsor of the NDIA Systems Engineering Division; a DOD representative to INCOSE's Corporate Advisory Board; chairman, Stevens Institute of Technology, School of Systems and Enterprise Advisory Board; and chairman of the NATO Life Cycle Management Group and its Continuous Acquisition and Life Cycle Support Management Board. George R
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He is recognized nationally and internationally for expertise in systems engineering, risk management, enterprise development, total life-cycle management, program assessment, and related subordinate fields in both technical and technical management domains. Richard Szafranski is a partner in Toffler Associates, where he was a founding member in 1996, a managing partner from 2000 through 2006, and is now responsible for managing its international growth.
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Ms. Winston currently serves as a consultant to organizations such as the National Nuclear Security Administration, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Homeland Security on program and project management, project reviews, risk management, and vulnerability assessments.
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