Dr. Parkinson

earned a B.S. in General Engineering at the US Naval Academy; a M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT and his Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford. He is a distinguished graduate of the US Naval War College; was head of the Department of Astronautics and Computer Science at the US Air Force Academy; was an academic instructor for the USAF Test Pilot School and has logged over 150 hours of combat missions in Southeast Asia.

A Stanford University Professor since 1984, Dr. Parkinson was named the Edward C. Wells Professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics, an endowed chair (1995) and Emeritus (2001). In 1999, he returned to Stanford after a 12 month leave of absence during which time he was acting CEO/President of Trimble Navigation. He is the Principal Investigator for several Global Positioning System (GPS) research projects performed at Stanford and continues to teach innovative uses of GPS. He is also the Co-Principal Investigator and an Associate Program Manager for NASA's Gravity Probe-B Program at Stanford University.

He was the Chairman of the Aerospace Corporation and is on the board of directors of EMS, and Trimble Navigation, as well as continuing international keynote addresses and panel discussions. He is the chair of the JPL Advisory Council and a member of the NRC Precision Time and Interval S&T Study Commmittee.

He is a member of AAS, IEEE, ION, NAE, The Presidential Commission on Air Safety and Security, a member of the Independent Review Team of The Institute For Defense Analyses, and the NRC Task Force. He is a fellow of AIAA, The Royal Institute of Navigation, and The ION.
His numerous awards include the IEEE Simon Ramo Award, the IEEE Sperry Award, the Royal Institute of Navigation's Gold Medal; the Kirschner Award of the IEEE; Discover Innovation Award; Engineer of the Year for Silicon Valley; the Thurlow Award of the Institute of Navigation; the IEEE Pioneer Award; NASA's Distinguished Public Service Medal; the NavStar Joint Program Office GPS Hall of Fame Award; The American Philosophical Society Magellanic Premium Award, the AIAA Von Karman Lecturership and Aerospace Contribution to Society Medal and he has been inducted into the NASA Hall of Fame. In 1993 he was awarded the Draper Prize ("the Engineering Nobel") for his contributions in developing the GPS system.

Lecture: Snares, Traps, and Surprises- Developing GPS
This talk will describe the history and development of GPS. The speaker was the Chief Architect and led the development of the system from 1972 to 1978. He will point out some of the major challenges that may be applicable to Galileo. In addition he will describe applications that were not anticipated in 1973 when he finally gained approval for the system.

Lecture: From Ideas to Successful Businesses - What are the Traps?
The purpose of this talk is to provide insights into the process of converting Ideas into real, profitable businesses. The focus is on product startup companies. It is based on a three day course that Professor Parkinson created and ran for many years at Stanford University. His experience includes taking two private companies public, many years on the boards of Public Companies, and serving on the board of NTV of Draper Laboratory which is a start-up incubator.
Included as topics are:
•Views of the challenges
•A model for the entrepreneur
•Strategies: Beating the Competition

Lecture: Talk on Satellite Cost Estimating Observations and the Young 80% Rule
Purpose of this talk is to discuss one of the most significant problems for Program and Project Managers - especially for satellite development: Estimating Costs and Managing the Reserves.
It is based on the Defense Science Board study on "Acquisition of National Space Programs" which studied why many US national space programs had significant cost growth and schedule delays. It was chaired by a former executive VP of Lockheed, Mr. Tom Young.
Professor Parkinson headed the panel on cost estimating. The topic will be discussed at the managerial level, and follows a similar presentation that was made to the Honorable Peter Teets who was the Under Secretary of the the US Air Force.
This discussion may be particularly pertinent to Galileo.

Lecture: The future of Satellite Navigation
This talk will discuss the future of PNT. It will summarize the status and plans of each of the major Navigation Satellite Systems: GPS, GLONASS (Russia), Galileo (Europe), QZSS (Japan) and Compass (China).
It will also briefly discuss the major augmentation system that have been deployed or are being developed, and their capability - including WAAS and EGNOS. Also summarized are some of the key technologies that should influence the future of PNT. This will be a springboard to a discussion of the newer applications and speculation on the next "killer app". Finally, a caution will be offered on the near term future.