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Vahid Norouzalibeik is a safety management system specialist and instructor, specializing in human factors and commercial aircraft operations. He leads the Human Factors Subcommittee of AIAA’s Product Support Technical Committee and works for Pacific Aviation and Lease Management in San Diego. He is part of a team that is performing a passenger-to-freighter prototype conversion for Airbus A320s and A321s. Norouzalibeik grew up in Tehran, Iran, where his father was a loadmaster at Mehrabad International Airport, where the younger Norouzalibeik began his career.
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Fred was the inaugural director of the U.S. Space Development Agency and a former director of DARPA’s Tactical Technology Office. A retired Air Force colonel and AIAA senior member, he holds a Ph.D. in electronics and physical sciences from the University of Surrey and degrees in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is CEO of Dark Fission Space Systems.
Anne is an award-winning science and technology writer whose work spans over two decades across the space, academia, computing and government sectors.