Appendix B
Committee Biographies

L. ROGER MASON, JR., Chair, is the president of the Space and Intelligence Sector at Peraton. Dr. Mason is responsible for the full direction and execution of Peraton’s space and intelligence missions across the Intelligence Community (IC), Department of Defense (DoD), and federal civilian agencies. He leads a 4,500-person workforce with global operations involving space resiliency, space situational awareness, ground communications stations, satellite flight operations, suborbital rockets, space flight subsystems, enterprise intelligence information technology systems, intelligence operations, computer network, exploitation, strategic weapons programs, and sensitive collection technologies. Annual revenue is over $1.7 billion. Prior to his current role, Dr. Mason served as the senior vice president, National Security and Intelligence, and the chief security officer at Noblis and was responsible for the company’s national security mission area. Key lines of business included overhead reconnaissance, cyber intelligence, military C4ISR, identify intelligence, counter proliferation technologies, and counterterrorism systems. He returned to Noblis after 5 years of service in the IC as the first Assistant Director of National Intelligence for Systems and Resource Analyses. In this capacity, Dr. Mason served as the Director of National Intelligence’s (DNI’s) principal intelligence officer and trusted advisor on all matters dealing with intelligence capabilities, resources, requirements, systems analysis, program evaluation, and cost analysis. He led the establishment of this new capability that combined operations research, decision sciences, and business analytics to aid the DNI and senior intelligence agency leaders in making difficult decisions on complex issues and spanned every aspect of intelligence from overhead space technologies to counterterrorism. In recognition of his service, Dr. Mason was awarded the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, the IC’s highest award. In addition, he received two gold IC seal medallions—the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s (NGA’s) Director’s medallion and the Central Intelligence Agency’s Director’s medallion—and led his organization to four National Intelligence Meritorious Unit Commendations. Prior to his federal service, Dr. Mason served in a number of senior executive positions in the national security sector, including vice president at Noblis, director at the Institute for Defense Analyses, and general manager of the Advanced Systems Group at General Dynamics. Earlier in his career, he led a number of advanced programs combining technology development, system integration, and field operations for military and intelligence missions. Dr. Mason has served the national security missions across three decades and is a nationally recognized expert in intelligence capabilities, operations research, overhead reconnaissance, systems integration, and change leadership. He has been an independent advisor to both the Senate and House Intelligence committees, particularly on matters dealing with national security space. He continues to serve the IC as an appointed member of the Intelligence Community Studies Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and is an adjunct professor at the National Intelligence University. He is also the former chair of the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation board of directors and still actively serves on that board. Dr. Mason earned his doctorate and master’s degree in engineering physics (nuclear) from the University of Virginia, a master’s degree in business administration from the Northwestern University (Kellogg School), and a bachelor’s degree in physics from The George Washington University.

ROBERT E. ERLANDSON is the branch supervisor, Space Sector Science and Space Instrumentation, at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL). Dr. Erlandson received a BA in physics from Augsburg College and a PhD in physics from the University of Minnesota. At the University of Minnesota, he built and flew plasma jet generators and plasma wave receivers to study plasma waves generated by perpendicular and parallel ion beams in the auroral ionosphere. He joined APL as a postdoctoral research scientist in 1986. He studied field-aligned currents and electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves using data from the Viking and Freja satellites. While at APL, Dr. Erlandson has published over

100 articles in scientific journals. He is responsible for scientific research in areas of heliophysics, planetary science, Earth science, national security applications, and the development of space instrumentation. Space sensors cover diverse applications from energetic particle detectors, magnetometers, neutron-gamma ray spectrometers, and optical sensors used to acquire images of Mercury, Mars, and Pluto and her moons. Dr. Erlandson is actively involved in promoting research, space instrumentation, and mission proposals with both civil and national security applications. Dr. Erlandson was the project scientist on a U.S./Russian sounding rocket campaign called APEX North Star, launched from Poker Flats, Alaska, in 1999. This experiment explored fundamental plasma physics questions associated with interaction of ion beams with ionospheric plasma. More recently, he conceived of and developed the Missile Defense Agency’s Spacebased Kill Assessment program.

LEE FEINBERG is the NASA optical telescope element manager for the James Webb Space Telescope for the past 16 years and holds the title of senior large optics systems engineer in Code 550 at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). Mr. Feinberg was a member of the AURA Future of UVOIR Astronomy committee and is a member of the LUVOIR and Habex Science and Technology Development Teams that are evaluating next-generation large space telescope decadal missions for NASA. From 1998-2000, Mr. Feinberg served as the assistant chief for technology in the Instrument Systems Technology Division at GSFC. Before that, he worked for 10 years on the Hubble Space Telescope, including serving as the space telescope imaging spectrograph instrument manager, the Wide-Field Camera-3 Concept study lead, and the Wide-Field Planetary Camera-2 and COSTAR GSFC integration and testing lead. Mr. Feinberg is a fellow of SPIE and is an associate editor of the Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems. He has a BS in optics from the University of Rochester and an MS in applied physics from Johns Hopkins University.

WILLIAM A. JEFFREY is the chief executive officer of SRI International, a leading research and development organization serving government and industry. Dr. Jeffrey joined SRI in 2014. From 2008 to 2014, he was the president and the chief executive officer of HRL Laboratories, a corporate research and development organization owned by The Boeing Company and General Motors. Prior to joining HRL, Dr. Jeffrey served in the George W. Bush administration as the director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He also served in the Executive Office of the President as the senior director for homeland and national security and as the assistant director for space and aeronautics within the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Earlier in his career, Dr. Jeffrey was the deputy director for the Advanced Technology Office, the chief scientist for the Tactical Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the assistant deputy for technology at the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office. He started his professional career at the Institute for Defense Analyses. Dr. Jeffrey is an elected fellow of the American Physical Society, an elected honorary member of the International Society of Automation, a recipient of the 2008 Navigator Award from the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, and a recipient of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service. He serves on the board of TE Connectivity and serves on the Office of the Director of National Intelligence Technical Advisory Board. He is also on the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory External Review Committee. Dr. Jeffrey received his MA and PhD in astronomy from Harvard University and his BSc in physics is from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

LETITIA A. LONG is an independent consultant. She currently sits on the boards of Parsons, COPT, Noblis, HyperSat, Octo, AIS, and Quadrint. She is also on the board of visitors of Virginia Tech (vice rector) and is the chair of the board of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance. Ms. Long sits on several advisory boards, including the Virginia Tech Ted and Karyn Hume Center for National Security and Technology, the George Mason National Security Institute, and HawkEye 360 (chair). She served as the NGA and was the first woman to lead a major U.S. intelligence agency. This culminated a career that spanned all aspects of organizational leadership, business functions, and global operations. Ms. Long started her career in Naval Intelligence and went on to serve as the Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence,

the first Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence (Policy, Requirements and Resources), the first chief information officer and later the Deputy Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Ms. Long is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2017 Virginia Tech Distinguished Achievement Award, the Presidential Rank Award of Distinguished Executive, two President Rank Awards of Meritorious Executive, two DoD Medals for Distinguished Service, and three National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medals. She has been decorated with the Medal of Merit by the King of Norway, appointed to the rank of Chevalier in the National Order of the Legion of Honor of France, and awarded the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland. Ms. Long earned a BS in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech, an MS in mechanical engineering from The Catholic University of America, and was awarded an honorary doctorate of Strategic Intelligence by the National Intelligence University.

BRIAN A. SHAW currently serves as the senior technical advisor at Strategic Analysis, Inc., in support of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering’s Office of FFRDC and UARC Policy, Research and Technology, Laboratories and Personnel. His principal duties include technology assessments, technical standards, and federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) and University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) contract performance review. He is a career educator, intelligence officer, and scientist. Dr. Shaw was the deputy provost for academic affairs at the National Defense University (NDU) where he served as the principal educational advocate and senior advisor to the NDU provost on academic governance, teaching and learning, research, accreditation, and faculty management. Prior to his appointment at NDU, Dr. Shaw was a professor of intelligence studies and the founding dean of the Oettinger School of Science and Technology Intelligence and a professor of intelligence studies at the National Intelligence University. He developed the school’s four departments—Weapons of Mass Destruction, Cyber Intelligence and Data Analytics, Emerging Technologies and Geostrategic Resources, and Information Influence Analysis—and established the university’s cyber research laboratory. In addition to his academic service, he served as a senior analyst and senior advisor in the IC focusing on several regional and functional areas, including transboundary resource issues, information analytic, and cyber issues, and is IC Joint Duty Certified. He was also appointed as the Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Science and Technology to the National Intelligence Council. As a senior program manager at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory of the Department of Energy (DOE), he developed the Center for Environmental Security and the Cascade experimental laboratory. Prior to joining government service, he held a variety of research and leadership positions in the petroleum industry and the DOE laboratory community. Dr. Shaw recently served as the co-chair of the National Academies’ Board on Army Research and Development. He received his BS from Western Michigan University, an MS from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a PhD from Syracuse University. His principal areas of study were geology and mathematics.