Norman Ralph
Augustine (born July 27, 1935) is a U.S. aerospace businessman who served as Under Secretary of
the Army from 1975 to 1977. Augustine served as chairman of the Review of United States
Human Space Flight Plans Committee.
Augustine was raised in Colorado and attended Princeton University, where he
graduated with a BSE in Aeronautical
Engineering, magna cum laude, and an MSE.
He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi and Sigma
Xi.
In 1958
he joined the Douglas Aircraft
Company in California, where he
worked as a research engineer, program manager and chief
engineer. Beginning in 1965, he served in the Office
of the Secretary of Defense as
Assistant Director of Defense Research and Engineering. He joined LTV Missiles
and Space Company in 1970, serving as vice president of advanced programs and
marketing. In 1973 he returned to the government as Assistant Secretary of the
Army and in 1975 became Under Secretary of the Army, and later Acting Secretary
of the Army. Joining Martin
Marietta Corporation in 1977 as
vice president of technical operations, he was elected as CEO in 1987 and
chairman in 1988, having previously been president and COO. In 1990, he chaired
the Advisory Committee on the
Future of the U.S. Space Program, known as the Augustine Committee. He served
as president of the Lockheed
Martin Corporation upon the
formation of that company in 1995, and became CEO later that year. He retired
as chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin in August 1997, when he became a
lecturer with the rank of professor on
the faculty of Princeton
University where he served until July 1999.
In 1999
he helped found In-Q-Tel, a
venture capital firm sponsored by the CIA with a mandate to support United
States intelligence by investing in advanced technology.
Augustine
was chairman and principal officer of the American
Red Cross for nine years,
chairman of the National Academy
of Engineering, president and chairman of the Association of the United States
Army, chairman of the Aerospace
Industries Association, and chairman of the Defense
Science Board. He is a former president of the American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronautics and the Boy Scouts of America. He is a former
member of the board of directors of ConocoPhillips, Black & Decker, Procter & Gamble and Lockheed
Martin, and was a member of the board of trustees of Colonial Williamsburg. He
is a regent of the University
System of Maryland, trustee emeritus of Johns
Hopkins and a former member of
the board of trustees of Princeton and MIT. He is a member of the advisory
board to the Department of
Homeland Security, was a member of the Hart/Rudman Commission on National
Security, and served for 16 years on the President’s Council of Advisors on
Science and Technology. He is a member of the guiding coalition of the Project on National Security Reform.
He is a member of the American
Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Explorers Club.
In May
2009 Augustine was named as chairman of the Review
of United States Human Space Flight Plans Committee, that was tasked to review
NASA's plans for the Moon, Mars and beyond.
In
March 2011 Augustine agreed to serve as chair of the U.S. Antarctic Program
Blue Ribbon Panel to assess U.S. activities in the South Pole. In July 2011,
Augustine became a member of the United
States Energy Security Council, which
seeks to diminish oil's monopoly over the US transportation sector and is
sponsored by the Institute for
the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS). He currently sits on the America Abroad Media advisory board.
Augustine
has been presented the National
Medal of Technology by the
President of the United States and received the Joint Chiefs of Staff Distinguished Public Service Award. He
has five times received the Department of Defense's highest civilian
decoration, the Distinguished
Civilian Service Award. He is co-author of The Defense Revolution and
Shakespeare in Charge and author of Augustine's Laws and Augustine’s Travels.
He holds 34 honorary degrees and was selected by Who’s Who in America and the Library of Congress as one of “Fifty Great Americans” on
the occasion of Who’s Who’s fiftieth anniversary. He has traveled in over 111
countries and stood on both the North and South Poles of the earth.
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