From 1959 to 1963 he served as chief of program support for NASA’s Office of Tracking and Data Acquisition, where he invented the unified S-band system and received the Apollo Achievement Award. The formal name for the technologies is Satellite Digital Audio Radio Service (SDARS), commonly known as satellite radio. Briskman developed the innovative technologies that enable efficient satellite transmission of continuous radio programming to mobile and fixed receivers, with near perfect availability across enormous geographic areas that include urban and rural environments. He retired as Associate Head and Chief Scientist of the Aeronautics Department at the JHU/APL in 1996 and became President of PYRODYNE, Inc. He received the Meritorious Civilian Service Award from the Department of the Air Force in 1992 and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995. Bondaruck Award “as a pioneer of scramjet research” by the Soviet Academy of Sciences and USSR Aviation Sport Federation. In 1991 Billig, a Fellow, past Vice President and Director of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), also received AIAA’s Dryden Research Lectureship for his lifetime of research. Billig has been honored by numerous awards, including the Maryland Academy of Science’s Distinguished Young Scientist Award (1966), the Combustion Institute’s Silver Medal (1968), the NASP Pioneer Award (1989) and the JHU/APL lifetime achievement award (1991). Dugger submitted a patent application for a supersonic combustion ramjet based on Billig’s Ph.D. He was Program Manager of the National Aerospace Plane (NASP) Project at the Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL). He was responsible for highspeed propulsion programs sponsored by the U.S. (Photo:UMD)įrederick Billig’s primary research has been in the area of highspeed, air-breathing propulsion for advanced flight vehicles including pioneering work in external burning and supersonic combustion. Bell has authored or co-authored over 25 technical papers and has been an adjunct professor at both the University of Maryland and George Mason University. He also holds the title of Diplomate through the Academy of Geo-Professionals. Bell has been elected as a Bechtel Fellow, an American Society of Civil Engineers Fellow and an ASTM Fellow.
Recognized for his technical expertise, Dr. Bell served in the roles of Chief Engineer for Bechtel’s Geotechnical & Hydraulic Engineering Services (G&HES) group for both the Power and Infrastructure GBUs as well as the Corporate Manager of G&HES. He is currently serving as the lead geotechnical engineer on the proposed two-unit Wylfa Newydd Nuclear Power Plant Project in northwest Wales. Although the majority of his career with Bechtel has been in the Power GBU, he has also completed three long-term overseas assignments for other GBUs, including a three and a half year assignment in Hong Kong on a rail project, an assignment in New Caledonia on a nickel mining project, and a two year assignment in Trinidad on the Atlantic LNG project. He started as a staff engineer and advanced through Bechtel’s technical specialist career path as an engineering specialist to principal engineer, and now serves as a Technology Manager. Bell joined Bechtel upon obtaining his Ph.D.
Bell is a Technology Manager for Bechtel’s Nuclear, Environmental and Security Global Business Unit (GBU) located in Reston, Virginia.
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