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General Information
Executive Committee Members
The Executive Committee is responsible for the general oversight of the SSE and for assuring adherence to the goals of the program.
Robert Korkegi is currently visiting professor with the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Maryland. He holds the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Science in aeronautics and mathematics from the California Institute of Technology, and Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from Lehigh University. During his distinguished career, he held the position of director of NATO’s Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development (AGARD) in Paris, for which he was nominated by the United States Government, director of the Hypersonic Research Laboratory of the U.S. Air Force’s Aerospace Research Laboratories, and technical director and charter member of the von Karmen Institute for Fluid Dynamics in Belgium. Following retirement, he served as visiting professor of engineering and applied science at the George Washington University and later, directed aeronautics and space activities for the National Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Korkegi has served on numerous national and international committees of the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, NASA, the NATO Science Committee, AGARD, and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He received several awards including the NASA Public Service Medal for his participation in an Academy study to return the space shuttle to flight. Dr. Korkegi is a fellow of the AIAA and the author of over 50 technical and scientific publications including over 20 refereed journal articles. He is listed in Who’s Who in the East, American Men & Women of Science, Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, Who’s Who in Engineering, and Men of Achievement.
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Robert A. Kennedy has 30 years of technical and management experience in innovative, highly technical fields including the development of scientific instruments, spacecraft and aircraft systems and subsystems, and information systems and the management of environmental, science and space systems programs. He has worked in both the government and private sectors and is still actively involved in the information technology and aerospace business through his own company. He is a graduate of Tulane University in physics and mathematics and has taken advanced courses in science and mathematics and George Washington University.
Mr. Kennedy is presently president of his own company, Kennedy Innovative TEchnologies, Inc. (KIT), which provides consulting services to industry and government in technical and management areas of aerospace and information systems sectors. Mr. Kennedy retired from NASA , Office of Space Sciences, in 1985. His professional affiliations include: National Space Club, (president), American Astronomical Society, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics National Capital Section (chairman), and Aeronautical Industries Association Space Committee.
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Donald G. Rea received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. at the University of Manitoba, and his Ph.D. in 1954 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After one year of postdoctoral research at Oxford University, England, he joined the Chevron Research Corporation as a research chemist. He moved to the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California in 1961 and in 1968 to the Planetary Division of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, where he was chief scientist and deputy director. In 1970 he assumed the position of assistant laboratory director for science at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Over the next 19 years he held various positions at JPL, including assistant laboratory director for technology and space programs development. In that role he had program responsiblity for JPL's science and technology development (with the exception of R&D for the Deep Space Net) and studies of future flight projects. In 1991 he retired from JPL and joined the MITRE Corporation as consulting scientist, where he worked on a range of information systems tasks. He retired from MITRE in 1996.
He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an associate fellow of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics, and holds an honorary D.Sc. from the University of Manitoba.
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