Prof. Dr. Bradford Parkinson
Curriculum Vitae of Bradford Parkinson
| 1935 | Born in Madison, WI/USA. |
| 1964-1966 | Instructor US Air Force Test Pilot’s School. |
| 1969-1970 | 26 Combat Missions in South East Asia. |
| 1970-1971 | Chairman of Astronautics/Computer Science Dept., US Air Force Academy. |
| 1972-1978 | Chief Architect and Advocate for GPS, Program Director through first GPS Launches and Initial Tests. |
| 1978 | Retires from US Air Force as a Colonel. |
| 1979 | Professor Colorado State University – Research on Solar Energy. |
| 1980-1981 | Vice President, Advanced Engineering, Rockwell Corporation. |
| 1981-1984 | Group Vice President, Intermetrics. |
| 1984-2001 | Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University. |
| 1992 | First Demonstration of Commercial Aircraft Landing solely using GPS. |
| 1994 | First Demonstration of GPS Precision Farming Tractor (8 centimeters). |
| 1995 | Conception and Demonstration of GPS WAAS, now operational with FAA. |
| 1984-2000 | Program Director of NASA’s Gravity Probe-B Satellite to Test Einstein’s General Relativity. |
Education
| 1957 | BSc with Distinction – US Naval Academy. |
| 1961 | MSc – Aeronautics and Astronautics – MIT (Tau Beta Pi). |
| 1966 | PhD – Aeronautics and Astronautics – Stanford University. |
Fellowships
| 1990 | Royal Institute of Navigation. |
| 1991 | American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Member of the International Academy of Astronautics, IEEE, ION, ASME and AIAA. |
| 1999 | IEEE, the (American) Institute of Navigation. |
| 2009 | American Astronautical Society. |
Publications
More than 50 papers on the subjects of guidance, navigation, and control and is co-editor and an author of the best-selling AIAA book Global Positioning System, Theory and Applications.
US Patents
| 5,726,659 | “Multipath calibration in GPS pseudorange measurements”. |
| 6,434,462 | “GPS control of a tractor-towed implement”, “Method and apparatus for vehicle control, navigation and positioning”. |
| 6,052,647 | “Method and system for automatic control of vehicles based on carrier phase differential GPS”. |
| 6,373,432 | “System using leo satellites for centimeter-level navigation”. |
| 5,572,218 | “System and method for generating precise position determinations” – for which was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame in 2004. |
Awards
| 1977 | The Defense Department Superior Performance Award for Best Program Director in the Air Force. |
| 1983 | Royal Institute of Navigation’s Gold Medal. |
| 1986 | Kershner Award and Institute of Navigation’s Thurlow Award. |
| 1987 | Burka Award. |
| 1991 | Kepler Award. |
| 1993 | The Loyd Berkner Award of the AAS, Navstar Joint Program Office GPS Hall of Fame Award. |
| 1994 | Pioneer Award and National Reconaissance Office Gold Medal, NASA’s Public Service Medal. |
| 1996 | Von Karman Lectureship. |
| 1997 | American Philosophical Society Magellanic Premium Medal. |
| 1998 | Sperry Award. |
| 2001 | Distinguished Public Service Medal and the Aerospace Contribution to Society Medal. |
| 2002 | IEEE Simon Ramo Award. |
| 2004 | American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Gold Medal. |
| 2006 | AIAA Goddard Astronautics Award. |
| 2007 | Silicon Valley Hall of Fame. |
| 2012 | Goddard Trophy and Bob Hope Award of NDIA. |