Leading Aerospace
Board of Trustees
Our Board of Trustees consists of eminent individuals from the business, scientific, academic and public-service communities. The board normally meets four times a year, in addition to overseeing a number of committees. Board members are elected to three-year terms. Reelection is possible, but no member (other than the chief executive officer and president, who are elected annually by the board and who are ex officio members) may serve more than three consecutive terms.
The Aerospace board elects corporate officers and sets policy for the Aerospace FFRDC while supervising and directing the general management of the corporation. From its inception, the Aerospace board has established and maintained strict conflict-of-interest standards for its members and for the corporation's officers and employees.
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Peter B. Teets Chairman Former Undersecretary of the Air Force and Director of the National Reconnaissance Office; former President and Chief Operating Officer, Lockheed Martin Corporation. |
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Gen. Thomas S. Moorman Jr. (USAF, Ret.) Vice Chairman Former Vice Chief of Staff, USAF; former Commander of Air Force Space Command. |
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Dr. Wanda M. Austin President and CEO The Aerospace Corporation; former Senior Vice President, National Systems Group, and former Senior Vice President, Engineering and Technology Group, The Aerospace Corporation. |
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Gen. Howell M. Estes III (USAF, Ret.) President, Howell Estes & Associates, Inc.; former Commander in Chief, North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Space Command and Commander, Air Force Space Command; former Director of Operations, the Joint Staff. |
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Rufus A. Fulton Jr. Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Fulton Financial Corporation; former Director, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. |
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Nelson F. Gibbs Former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Installations, Environment, and Logistics; former Controller, Northrop Grumman. |
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John E. McLaughlin Senior Fellow, Merrill Center for Strategic Studies, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; former Acting Director and Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency. |
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Michael Montelongo Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, Sodexo, Inc; former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Financial Management and Comptroller. |
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Dr. M. Elisabeth Paté-Cornell Professor and chair of the Department of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford; senior fellow of the Stanford Institute for International Studies. |
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Dr. Sally K. Ride Co-founder and CEO, Imaginary Lines, Inc.; Professor of Space Science, University of California, San Diego; former NASA astronaut; former director, NASA Office of Exploration. |
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Jeffrey H. Smith Senior Partner, law firm of Arnold and Porter; General Counsel, Goldwater Foundation; former General Counsel, Central Intelligence Agency. |
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K. Anne Street President, Riverside Consulting Group, Inc.; former President and Chief Operating Officer, Geo-Centers, Inc.; former Vice President, Battelle Memorial Institute. |
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Vincent Vitto Retired President and CEO, The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory; Vice Chairman, Defense Science Board. |
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Robert S. Walker Chairman, Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates; former Member of the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. |












