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Appendix C--Speaker Biographies
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From page 17... ... Joint Staff, Washington, D.C.; deputy director, Combat Forces Requirements, U.S. Air Force Staff, Washington, D.C.; Combined Forces Air Component Commander, Operation Northern Watch, Incirlik, Turkey; deputy director, Defense Modeling and Simulation Office, Washington, D.C.; Commander 27FS, Langley AFB, Virginia; and numerous F15/F4 pilot/instructor pilot assignments in the United States, Europe, and the Pacific. Read the entire page →
From page 18... ... government or the National Academies, including the Intelligence Science Board, an advisory body to the director of National Intelligence; the National Institute of Standards and Technology Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology, an advisory body to the director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology; Defense Science Board Summer Studies; the Air Force Studies Board; Standing Advisory Committee to the Special Operations Command; and the Standing Committee for Technology Insight -- Gauge, Evaluate, and Review, an advisory committee to the intelligence community. Romig has served on several industrial boards, including for the Technology Ventures Corporation, a Lockheed Martin subsidiary dedicated to technology commercialization; and as a Lockheed Martin representative on the Atomic Weapons Establishment (UK) Read the entire page →
From page 19... ... He proved this approach and the resulting technology with the invention of the world's first autonomous unicycle. The riderless unicycle utilized sensors that could detect balance changes and a control algorithm that could interpret that sensor data and then issue adjustment instructions to a mechanical motor propelling the vehicle. Read the entire page →

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... Joint Staff, Washington, D.C.; deputy director, Combat Forces Requirements, U.S. Air Force Staff, Washington, D.C.; Combined Forces Air Component Commander, Operation Northern Watch, Incirlik, Turkey; deputy director, Defense Modeling and Simulation Office, Washington, D.C.; Commander 27FS, Langley AFB, Virginia; and numerous F15/F4 pilot/instructor pilot assignments in the United States, Europe, and the Pacific.

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... government or the National Academies, including the Intelligence Science Board, an advisory body to the director of National Intelligence; the National Institute of Standards and Technology Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology, an advisory body to the director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology; Defense Science Board Summer Studies; the Air Force Studies Board; Standing Advisory Committee to the Special Operations Command; and the Standing Committee for Technology Insight -- Gauge, Evaluate, and Review, an advisory committee to the intelligence community. Romig has served on several industrial boards, including for the Technology Ventures Corporation, a Lockheed Martin subsidiary dedicated to technology commercialization; and as a Lockheed Martin representative on the Atomic Weapons Establishment (UK)

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... He proved this approach and the resulting technology with the invention of the world's first autonomous unicycle. The riderless unicycle utilized sensors that could detect balance changes and a control algorithm that could interpret that sensor data and then issue adjustment instructions to a mechanical motor propelling the vehicle.

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Appendix C--Speaker Biographies Pages 17-19

Appendix C--Speaker Biographies
Pages 17-19