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.

	Lt. Gen. Donald L. Cromer (USAF, Ret.), Chair Former President, Hughes Space and Communications Company; former Commander, Air Force Space Systems Division.		Peter B. Teets, Vice Chair Former Undersecretary of the Air Force and Director of the National Reconnaissance Office; former President and Chief Operating Officer, Lockheed Martin Corporation.
	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.		Dr. Guion S. Bluford Jr. President, The Aerospace Technology Group; former Vice President, Microgravity R&D Operations, Northrop Grumman; former NASA astronaut.
	Rufus A. Fulton Jr. Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Fulton Financial Corporation; former Director, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.		Nelson F. Gibbs Former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Installations, Environment, and Logistics; former Controller, Northrop Grumman.
	Dr. Daniel E. Hastings Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; former Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force.		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.
	John A. McLuckey President, John A. McLuckey, Inc.; former President of Boeing Space Systems; former President and Chief Operating Officer of the Rockwell Aerospace and Defense businesses.		Dana M. Muir Research Professor of Business and Law, University of Michigan; former associate, law firm of Dykema Gossett; consultant on pension and welfare benefits.
	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.		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.
	Maj. Gen. Donald W. Shepperd (USAF, Ret.) President, The Shepperd Group, Inc.; former Director of the Air National Guard; former Commander of the 102nd Flight Wing at Otis Air National Guard Base.		Jeffrey H. Smith Senior Partner, law firm of Arnold and Porter; General Counsel, Goldwater Foundation; former General Counsel, Central Intelligence Agency.
	Gen. John H. Tilelli, Jr. (USA, Ret.) President and COO, Cypress International; former President and CEO, USO; former Commander in Chief: United Nations Command, Republic of Korea/U.S. Combined Forces Command, and U.S. Forces Korea.		Vincent Vitto Retired President and CEO, The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory; Vice Chairman, Defense Science Board.
	Robert S. Walker Chairman, Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates; former Member of the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.