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Boehlert, Tether, Rennie named 2003 NAVIGATOR Honorees

20 August, 2003

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 20, 2003

(Arlington, VA) – The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies recently announced the honorees for the Institute’s 2003 Navigator Awards. The Navigator Awards are presented annually to Members of Congress, a representative of the executive branch, and an industry/academia representative based on his/her recent or lifetime distinguished service in support of national science and technology policy. Three individuals will be honored this year: Congressman Sherwood Boehlert (R-New Hartford) chairs the House Science Committee. Currently serving in his 11th consecutive term representing Central New York State, leads the committee which has jurisdiction over all federal nonmilitary scientific and technology research and development (R&D) programs on which the government spends more than $30 billion/year. The committee has jurisdiction over NASA, the National Science Foundation, and R&D initiatives within the EPA, The Department of Energy, and the Department of Commerce. Boehlert also serves as chairman of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly ‘s Scientific and Technology Committee.

Anthony J. (Tony) Tether Ph.D., Director, Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) heads the principal Agency within the Department of Defense for research development, and demonstration of concepts, devices, and systems that provide highly advanced military capabilities. Until his appointment as Director, Dr. Tether held the position of Chief Executive Officer and President of the Sequoia Group, which he founded in 1996. He has served on Army and Defense Science Boards and on the Office of National Drug Control Policy Research and Development Committee. John Rennie, Editor in Chief, Scientific American (SA), has been the creative force behind the modernization and reinvigoration of this great publishing institute. Rennie joined the Scientific American Board of Editors in 1989 having previously worked an as science writer for a variety of publications. He helped to plan and edit several of Scientific American’s distinguished single-topic issues, including Mind and Brain (September 1992, the best selling special issue in SA’s history) and Life, Death and the Immune System (September 1993, later republished in book form)

Navigation, one of man’s enduring technical challenges, is equally challenging in policy. The Navigator Awards are so named to reflect that national leadership, particularly in science and technology policy, is a never-ending process of finding the way ahead. Previous Navigator honorees have included: Senator Pat Roberts, Kansas; Congressman Tom Davis, Virginia; Senator Jeff Bingaman, New Mexico; Congressman Curt Weldon, Pennsylvania; General Alfred M. Gray, USMC (Ret.), Senior Associate, Garber International Associates; Vice Admiral Paul G. Gaffney II, President, National Defense University, former Chief of Naval Research; Dr. Rita Colwell, Director, The National Science Foundation; Mr. Gilman Louie, CEO, In-Q-Tel Corporation; Dr. Joseph V. Braddock, Founder, BDM; and Dr. Paul Kaminski, then Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition and Technology). The 2002 recipients will be honored at an annual dinner gala at the Willard InterContinental Hotel in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, September 9, 2003.