Honors and Associations
- Member of the board of directors of Sprint Nextel Corporation.
- Member of the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation board of directors, the California Polytechnic State University President’s Cabinet, and the Rose Kennedy Greenway board.
- Appointed to the Pepperdine University board of regents and awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree and the Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship.
- Member of the Secretary of the Air Force advisory board.
- Trustee of the Association of the United States Army.
- Member of the National Defense Industrial Association.
- Member of the Navy League.
- Member of the Air Force Association.
- Member of the Board of Governors of the Aerospace Industries Association.
- Member of the CIA Officers Memorial Foundation board of advisors.
- Associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
- Member of the US president’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee.
- Vice chairman of the Business-Higher Education Forum (BHEF).
- Co-chair of BHEF's Securing America's Leadership in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Initiative.
- Honorary chair of MATHCOUNTS for 2009 through 2011.
- Honorary chair of 2011 Engineers Week.
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