The Aerospace Corporation Announces
Principal Engineer Appointments

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (10/27/06) — The Aerospace Corporation has announced that Dr. Michael L. Campbell and Peter J. Carian have been named principal engineers.

Campbell will serve as chief software engineer within the Navigation Division, supporting the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center’s Global Positioning Systems (GPS) Wing. In this position, Campbell will provide systems engineering and oversight for software issues that affect all GPS programs. Campbell previously was a principal director in the Computers and Software Division.

As principal engineer within the Electronics and Sensors Division, Carian will provide technical leadership for analog and power electronics issues, including independent readiness reviews and anomaly investigations across a wide range of satellite and launch vehicle programs. Carian advances from senior engineering specialist. In 2001 he received the company’s Trustees’ Distinguished Achievement Award, the company’s top honor, for his contributions in resolving numerous spacecraft and launch vehicle anomalies that threatened critical national security space programs.

The Aerospace Corporation, based in El Segundo, Calif., is an independent, nonprofit company that provides objective technical analyses and assessments for national security space programs and selected civil and commercial space programs in the national interest.

Media inquiries: Dave Jonta, 310-336-5041, david.l.jonta@aero.org