The Aerospace Corp. has elected three leaders to its board of trustees: Paul Selva, former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Kathleen Hicks, former Pentagon official, and Dava Newman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and former NASA official.
Aerospace is a national nonprofit corporation that operates a federally funded research and development center and has approximately 4,000 employees.
“Aerospace does the vital work of helping our nation chart the future in space, particularly in this period of rapid growth and emerging threats,” said Steve Isakowitz, Aerospace president and CEO. “Our new board members bring invaluable expertise, knowledge, and judgment to the efforts of our organization and the entire space enterprise.”
Selva served as the 10th vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the nation’s second highest-ranking military officer. Prior to this assignment, he served as commander of United States Transportation Command, responsible for overseeing all global air, land and sea transportation systems for the entire Department of Defense.
Hicks is currently senior vice president, Henry A. Kissinger chair and director of the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. She previously served within the Defense Department as principal deputy undersecretary of defense for policy, as well as deputy undersecretary of defense for strategy, plans and forces.
Newman is the Apollo Program professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems at MIT, as well as an affiliate faculty in the Harvard-MIT Health, Sciences and Technology Program, and a MacVicar faculty fellow.