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Mr. Martin C. Faga Board Member Since 2000
Before joining MITRE, Mr. Faga served from 1989 until 1993 as Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Space, where he was responsible for overall supervision of Air Force space matters. At the same time, he served as director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), responsible to the Secretary of Defense and the Director of Central Intelligence for the development, acquisition, and operation of all U.S. satellite reconnaissance programs. Other facets of Mr. Faga's career include service as a staff member of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives, where he headed the program and budget staff, as an engineer at the Central Intelligence Agency, and as an R&D officer in the Air Force. Mr. Faga has been awarded the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Medal, the Air Force Exceptional Civilian Service Medal, and the NASA Distinguished Service Medal. In 2004, he was awarded the Intelligence Community Seal Medallion. Mr. Faga has served on the Commission for the Protection and Reduction of Government Secrecy, the Jeremiah Panel to review the mission and organization of the NRO, several Defense Science Board Task Forces, and the National Commission for the Review of the NRO. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, and is a member of the board of directors of Alliant Techsystems, GeoEye, the Association for Intelligence Officers, and the Space Foundation. He served on the board of directors of Electronic Data Systems. He has served on the President's Intelligence Advisory Board and currently serves on the Public Interest Declassification Board. He received master's and bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering from Lehigh University in 1964 and 1963.
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Mr. Martin Faga retired as president and chief executive officer of The MITRE Corporation in 2006, after serving in that role for six years. Prior to his promotion to president and CEO in May 2000, Mr. Faga was executive vice president. Earlier, he was senior vice president and general manager of MITRE's Center for Integrated Intelligence Systems, one of the two units operating under the Department of Defense (DoD)-sponsored Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) federally funded research and development center. This center serves the DoD and intelligence community sponsors in the integration of intelligence systems, from sensor technology through presentation to the ultimate user.