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Advisory Board at Space@VT

The Advisory Board for the Center for Space Science and Engineering at Virginia Tech (Space@VT) provides critical input for future growth and continued success.

The Advisory Board provides input on research opportunities and directions, as well as guidance for curricula and training for educating future space science and engineering students. Members of the Space@VT advisory board are leaders in the fields of space science, space engineering, and space technology. The current membership is as follows:

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Kevin Leclaire

Geoshare / Lockheed Martin

Chair

Janet Bachtel

Lockheed Martin

Richard Behnke

SciencePrime, LLC

Richard Bevilacqua

Naval Research Lab

Chair Emeritus

David Bowles

Virginia Institute for Spaceflight and Autonomy, ODU

Claudio (Cesare) Caprio

BAE Systems

Lauren Dreyer

SpaceX

Keith Englander

Missile Defense Agency

James Fishenden

Aerospace Inc.

Rob Fulton

Valkyrie Strategic Partners, LLC

Larry Gordley

GATS, Inc.

Peter Hadinger

Inmarsat

Brian Holz

MANGATA Works

Mark Jahshan

Peraton, Inc.

Nafiz Karabudak

Lockheed Martin

Michael Keeton

Northrop Grumman Orbital Science Corp.

Jackie Kendall

Science Systems and Applications, Inc.

John Klingelhoeffer

ARL

Andrew Kwas

NGC

Dino Lorenzini

Space Quest

Michael McLelland

Southwest Research Institute

Michael Mulqueen

HRL Laboratories

Larry Paxton

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab

David Pierce

NASA Wallops Flight Facility

Amit Puri

Ingenicomm, Inc.

Patricia Remias

Sierra Nevada Corp. Space Systems

Erica Rodgers

NASA Headquarters

Dan Sable

VPT, Inc.

Shey Sabripour

CesiumAstro

Philip Smith

NASA Wallops Flight Facility

Richard Stapp

NGC

Michelle Thompson

Open Research Institute, Inc.

Brandon Witcher

VPT, Inc.