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Opportunities Created by GPS for U.S. Defense, Commercial, and Foreign Policy Interests

Since the Global Positioning System (GPS) was originally deployed to aid U.S. armed forces in navigation and position location, it has evolved into a resource supporting civil, scientific, and commercial functions—from air traffic control to the Internet—with precision location and timing information.

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Brien Alkire

Associate Director, Force Modernization and Employment Program, RAND Project AIR FORCE; Senior Operations Researcher; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Ph.D. in electrical engineering, UCLA

J. Scott Ashwood

Research Programmer
M.A. in political science, University of Rochester

Edward Balkovich

Senior Information Scientist
Ph.D., M.S. in electrical engineering and computer science, University of California, Santa Barbara; B.A. in mathematics, University of California, Berkeley

Elizabeth Anne Bodine-Baron

Engineer, Assoc
Ph.D. in electrical engineering, California Institute of Technology; M.S. in electrical engineering, California Institute of Technology; B.S. in electrical engineering, University of Texas at Austin; B.A. in liberal arts (plan ii honors), University of Texas at Austin

Timothy M. Bonds

Vice President, RAND Corporation; Director, Army Research Division (RAND Arroyo Center)
M.B.A. in business administration, Washington University in St. Louis; M.S. in aero/astro engineering, University of Illinois; B.S. in aero/astro engineering, University of Michigan

Jonathan Cave

Senior Research Fellow
Ph.D. in economics, Stanford University; M.A. in economics, University of Cambridge; B.Sc. in chemistry and economics, Yale University

Bruce W. Don

Senior Policy Researcher
Ph.D. in policy analysis, RAND Graduate School (now the Pardee RAND Graduate School); B.S. in astronautics, United States Air Force Academy

Mel Eisman

Senior Cost Analyst
M.S.I.E. in operations research, Pennsylvania State University

Allen Fremont

Natural Scientist
M.D., Dartmouth Medical School; Ph.D. in sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; B.A. in social psychophysiology, University of California, Berkeley

David Andrew Galvan

Associate Physical Scientist
Ph.D. in geophysics and space physics, UCLA; M.S. in geophysics and space physics, UCLA; B.S. in physics, UC San Diego

Daniel Gonzales

Senior Physical Scientist; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Ph.D. in theoretical physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; B.S. in physics, Stanford University

Salil Gunashekar

Analyst
Ph.D. in communications engineering, University of Leicester; M.Sc. in information and communications engineering, University of Leicester; M.Sc. in informatics, University of Delhi; B.Sc. (Honours) in physics, University of Delhi

Aaron Kofner

Research Programmer
M.S. in applied economics and management, Cornell University; M.A. in urban planning and transportation policy, University of California, Los Angeles

Hui Lu

Analyst
Ph.D. in transport economics and behaviour modelling, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds; M.A. in industrial economics, Beijing JiaoTong University, China

Erik Nemeth

Adjunct Staff
Ph.D. in vision science, University of California, Berkeley; B.A. in computer science, University of California, Berkeley

Dimitris Potoglou

Analyst
Ph.D. in geography, McMaster University; M.Sc. in environmental engineering, National Technical University of Athens; B.Sc. in environmental studies, University of the Aegean

Helen Rebecca Schindler

Senior Analyst
M.Sc. in economics, Maastricht University; DEA in sociology, Université Paris Descartes--Sorbonne

Lara Schmidt

Associate Director, RAND Project AIR FORCE; Senior Statistician
Ph.D. in statistics, American University; M.S. in mathematics, West Virginia University; B.S. in mathematics, Shepherd College

Mary Ellen Slaughter

Quantitative Analyst
M.S. in epidemiology & biostatistics, Case-Western Reserve; B.S. in molecular biology & genetics, University of Maryland

Paul Sorensen

Associate Director, RAND Transportation, Space, and Technology Program; Operations Researcher
Ph.D. in geography, University of California, Santa Barbara; M.A. in urban planning, University of California, Los Angeles; B.A., Dartmouth College

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