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`Resume
`George T. Ligler
`Proprietor, GTL ASSOCIATES
`Member, U.S. National Academy of Engineering
`4808 Cypress Ford Drive
`Fuquay Varina, North Carolina 27526-9083 USA
`ligler1@earthlink.net
`(919) 346-1807
`
`Education
`Oxford University, Oxford, England
`M.Sc., Computer Science, 1973
`D. Phil., Computer Science, 1975
`(Rhodes Scholarship, Woodrow Wilson Fellow)
`Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina
`B.S., Mathematics, 1971
`Summa Cum Laude
`Experience
`December 1988 - Present: GTL ASSOCIATES
`Potomac, Maryland and Fuquay Varina, North
`Carolina
`Proprietor
`Established consulting firm in telecommunications, computer
`system and hardware/software engineering, and information
`management. Systems integration/engineering and product
`management services provided to forty-two clients in the
`United States, Europe and Asia. Assignments have included
`telecommunications network design, product and service
`definition and management, consulting on major program
`management and the systems integration process, applications
`systems
`engineering,
`business
`process
`improvement,
`competitive analysis, red teaming of major proposals,
`representation of clients in international fora, support of
`patent licensing discussions, participation in litigation as
`a consulting expert and/or expert witness, and new business
`venture planning.
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`Experience
`August 2007 – November 2007: PROJECT MANAGEMENT
`ENTERPRISES, INC., Bethesda, Maryland
`Senior Consultant
`Subject matter expert on a part-time employee basis to
`support the Federal Aviation Administration’s implementation
`of Automatic Dependent Surveillance—Broadcast (ADS-B) as a
`component of the Next Generation Air Transportation System.
`December 1984 - December 1988: COMPUTER SCIENCE
`CORPORATION, Falls Church, Virginia
`Vice President, Systems Group, November 1987 - December 1988
`Assignments on major program acquisition efforts within
`Systems Group, CSC's $750M/year Government business. Areas
`of involvement included pre-award project team preparation,
`proposal review and assistance, subcontractor selection and
`management, competitive analysis, and business acquisition
`process review.
`
`Vice President & Executive Director, Consolidated Data
`Network, Systems Division, October 1986 - November 1987
`Program Office responsibility for a $282 million, 8-year
`effort to provide, operate, and maintain packet-switched data
`network for the U.S. Treasury Department, with AT&T and BBN
`as major subcontractors. Put in place a network design and
`implementation infrastructure that achieved peak cutover
`rates of over 20 network locations per working day, enabling
`customer to transition to new expanded enforcement data
`system without major delay. Reduced CSC cost per site
`cutover by over 20%. Established material planning
`methodology (MRPII) to improve inventory management. Laid
`the groundwork for resolution of several important
`contractual issues. Recruited and developed successor program
`manager.
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`Experience
`Vice President, Communications and Controls Products, Systems
`Division, December 1984 - October 1986
`Responsible for a $12M/year business area engaged in the
`supply of Energy Management and Control Systems (EMCS) and
`communications subsystems for urban rapid transit systems.
`Expanded EMCS business from Tri-Service applications to
`commercial arena and made that business profitable.
`Responsible for the development of selected communication
`security products as value-added options for CSC's systems
`integration thrust.
`March 1982 - December 1984. AYDIN CORPORATION, Fort
`Washington, Pennsylvania
`President, Aydin Controls Division, March 1982 -December
`1984.
`Vice President, Aydin Corporation, February 1983 - December
`1984.
`General management responsibility for a 375-person, fully-
`integrated Division with annual sales of $27M of computer
`graphics equipment. Product lines in color raster
`scan
`display generators, high resolution monitors, and turnkey
`CAD/CAM systems. Market areas included process control,
`utilities, defense, and petrochemical resource exploration.
`Division growth 1981-1984 of approximately 45%, outperforming
`most graphics terminal competitors. Significant operational
`improvements boosted margins for investment in sales,
`marketing, and product development.
`April 1980 - March 1982. BURROUGHS CORPORATION,
`Paoli, Pennsylvania.
`Deputy Manager, Great Valley Labs, April 1980 - January 1981.
`Deputy General Manager and Director of Engineering, Special
`Systems Division, Federal and Special Systems Group,
`January 1981 to March 1982
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`Experience
`Chief technical executive for Special Systems Division
`precursor. Later responsible for 400 research and engineering
`personnel
`engaged
`in
`the
`development
`of
`primarily
`command/control/ communications and secure systems. Research
`component of organization executing projects in diverse areas
`of computer science and engineering, including distributed
`processing, local area networks, software tools/engineering,
`VLSIC design, and machine intelligence. Remaining activities
`matrixed into Division programs for customers including NATO,
`NSA, Navy, Army, and FAA. Assist with general management of
`a $50M marketing, engineering, and manufacturing operation.
`September 1976 - April 1980. TEXAS INSTRUMENTS,
`Dallas, Texas.
`Project Manager, Research Manager.
`Developed software products (e.g., compilers, programming
`tools) which became sources of TI revenue. Built an applied
`research and development activity of 15-20 persons with
`diverse program elements in computer systems and software
`engineering. Chaired a 25-member corporate-wide technical
`working group on advanced computer architectures; member of
`corporate computer science thrust team.
`September 1975 - September 1976. UNIVERSITY OF
`TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO, San Antonio, Texas.
`Assistant Professor of Computer Science
`programming
`in
`Taught
`graduate/undergraduate
`courses
`languages and analysis of algorithms. Research and
`publication in software engineering and programming language
`design. Chairman, Division Faculty Recruiting Committee.
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`Professional Activities and Awards
`Author or co-author of twenty-one technical papers in the
`areas of software engineering, telecommunications, computer
`and computer systems architecture, navigation and information
`systems for aviation, and computer graphics. Additionally,
`co-author of five reports issued by the U.S. National
`Research Council.
`Member, Association of American Rhodes Scholars, ACM, ION.
`Life Senior Member, IEEE.
`Numerous invited lectures, panels, and program committee
`memberships.
`Adjunct faculty member (two dissertation committees), Union
`Institute, 1989-1993.
`Inducted into Furman University's Alumni Hall of Fame, 1979.
`Member of National Research Council's Committee on Review of
`the Information Systems Modernization of the Internal Revenue
`Service, 1990-1995.
`Member of Technical Review Committee for Georgia Institute of
`Technology's Futurenet, which formed the backbone for
`telecommunications within the 1996 Olympic Village, 1994-
`1996.
`Member, Program Management Committee, RTCA (Aviation
`Standards Federal Advisory Committee), August 2000 to
`present. Co-Chair of RTCA’s Special Committee on Satellite
`Navigation, June 2005 to present. Chair of RTCA’s Integration
`and Coordination Committee, April 2009 – present. Founding
`Co-Chair of RTCA’s Special Committee on Unmanned Aircraft
`Systems, May 2013-December 2015.
`Chair, Co-Chair or Facilitator of RTCA Standards Working
`Groups that developed six aviation standards, 1992-2009.
`Rapporteur for development of International Civil Aviation
`Organization Standards and Recommended Practices for the
`Universal Access Transceiver (2002-2005).
`Member of National Research Council’s Panel on Research on
`Future Census Methods, December 2000 to March 2004.
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`Recipient of RTCA’s Highest Award (the Achievement Award),
`2006, “For Outstanding Management and Technical Leadership of
`Automatic Dependent Surveillance—Broadcast and Satellite-
`Based Navigation System Initiatives.”
`Member (invited by Federal Aviation Administration),
`Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) Aviation
`Rulemaking Committee, July 2007-July 2009.
`Member (invited by Secretary of Commerce), Census Expert
`Panel, March 2008- September 2008.
`Member of National Research Council’s Panel to Review the
`2010 Census, September 2009 to September 2014.
`Member (invited by the Federal Aviation Administration)
`Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) In
`Aviation Rulemaking Committee, June 30, 2010 to November 30,
`2012.
`Member (invited by RTCA), NextGen Advisory Committee
`Subcommittee, December 2010 to present.
`Member (invited by Federal Aviation Administration and the
`NextGen Institute), Plenary Leadership of the NextGen
`Institute’s/FAA’s/Industry’s Equip 2020 initiative, October
`2014 to present.
`Member and Reserve Chair, National Academies of Sciences,
`Engineering, and Medicine Standing Committee on Reengineering
`Census Operations, February 2015 to August 2017.
`Member and Secretary, Industrial Advisory Board, UNC Chapel
`Hill/NC State Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, May
`2015 to present.
`Member of the Recipient Team, Air Traffic Control
`Association’s 2015 Chairman’s Citation Award of Merit to the
`NextGen Institute’s Equip 2020 Initiative, November 2015.
`
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`

`Elected Member, National Academy of Engineering (NAE),
`Special Fields and Interdisciplinary Engineering Section,
`2017, “For leadership and engineering innovation in
`specifying and implementing complex computer-based systems
`for aviation and the US Census.”
` (https://www.nae.edu/165597.aspx)
`- Elected (by NAE Section on Special Fields and
`Interdisciplinary Engineering and NAE Council) Member,
`2019 NAE Nominating Committee
`
`Recipient of RTCA’s Highest Award (the Achievement Award),
`2017, “In recognition of your vision and leadership of safe
`UAS integration into the Nation’s airspace.”
`Chair, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and
`Medicine Committee on Assessing Risks of Unmanned Aircraft
`Systems (UAS) Integration, August 2017 to present.
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`PUBLICATION LIST1
`GEORGE T. LIGLER (November 2017)
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`1.
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`2.
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`3.
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`5.
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`7.
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`"Surface Properties of Programming Language Constructs",
`Proceedings of the International Symposium on Proving and
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`"On the Use of Mathematically Testable Criteria in the
`Design of Programming Languages for Reliable Software", 1976
`ACM Computer Science Conference, Anaheim, February 1976.
`"The Assignment Axiom and Programming Language Design",
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`Honolulu, January 1978, 40-44.
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`1 Does not include 5 co-authored reports of Panels of the National Academies
`of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine advising the Departments of Treasury
`and Commerce. Also does not include 6 major consensus aviation standards for
`which leadership, numerous working papers, and substantive co-author inputs
`were provided.
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`9.
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`"An Approach to Software Testing" (with R.R. Bate),
`Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Computer
`Software and Applications Conference, Chicago, November
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`10. "The TI Microprocessor Pascal System" (with L.D. Kroeker, W.
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`11. "Concurrency Constructs for Programming Languages: Issues
`and Prognosis" (with D.J. Frailey and G.J. Hansen), 1979
`Louisiana Microcomputer Conference.
`12. "High Order Language Architectures for DoD Tactical
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`Electronics Conference, Volume II, IEEE, New York, 691-694.
`13. "Display Technology for Industrial Process Control" (with
`D.J. Winward), Professional Program Session Record 19,
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`14. "Toward an ATN Framework for Automated Reporting of
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`National Weather Service Aviation Workshop, Kansas City,
`December 1991, 251-255.
`17. "Development of Minimum Aviation System Performance
`Standards for DGNSS Instrument Approach Systems (DIAS)"
`(with K.D. McDonald), Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting
`of the Institute of Navigation, Cambridge, Mass., June 21-
`23, 1993, 119-120.
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`18. "The RTCA Category II/III DGNSS Instrument Approach System
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`the International Symposium on Precision Approach and
`Automatic Landing, Braunschweig, Germany, February 1995, 67-
`73.
`19. "Standards Development for Category II/III Precision
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`the 51st Annual Meeting of the Institute of Navigation,
`Colorado Springs, June 1995, 361-367.
`20. "Electronic Data Distribution Service: Rationale and
`Benefits", Workshop on Electronic Document Distribution,
`Newport Beach, California, February 27-28, 1996.
`
`21. "RTCA SC-159: 30 Years of Aviation GPS Standards" (with C.J.
`Hegarty, K. Alexander, L. Chesto, H. Moses, J.M.Wichgers,
`P.Enge, R. Erlandson, A.J. Van Dierendonck, L. Azoulai, S.
`Kalyanaraman, S. Heppe, Y.C. Lee, K. Wesson, and J.
`Studenny), Proceedings of the 28th International Technical
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`(ION GNSS+ 2015), Tampa, Florida, September 14-18, 2015,
`877-896.
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