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Appendix D Biographical Sketches of Workshop Presenters
Pages 37-42

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... Before becoming a private consultant, he held several distinguished positions, including the following: President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Penn Central Federal Systems Company; Vice President and General Manager of the Defense Systems Group of TRW, Inc.; President and CEO of Acurex Corporation; President and CEO of ESL, Inc.; and Assistant Secretary of the 37
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... Mr. Decker currently serves on the National Advisory Council for the Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering.
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... He is currently serving or has served on the board of directors of the United Kingdom Atomic Weapons Establishment, New Mexico Humanities Council, Albuquerque Explora Science Museum, and Technology Ventures Corporation. He is a member of the external advisory board for the Texas A&M University Dwight Look College of Engineering.
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... He completed the Senior Managers in Government Program at the Harvard Kennedy School, is on the board of Oak Ridge Associated Universities, and was Academic Vice Chair for the President's Advisory Committee for the Carnegie Mellon Heinz College. Recognizing the need to link technical expertise with federal policy, he set up a lecture series of senior Washington, D.C., officials for the Washington internship program for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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... Engineering and Applied Science and as chair of the advisory board of its Department of Science, Technology and Society. In 2010, to honor his 10 years of service to the S&T Policy Internship program, the alumni of the the University of Virginia program named the annual end-of-summer research symposium after him.
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