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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">NASA endorses Jon Hamkins nomination.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">CMC <cmc-bounces@mailman.ccsds.org> on behalf of Ignacio Aguilar Sanchez via CMC <cmc@mailman.ccsds.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, September 14, 2023 at 11:48 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>cmc@mailman.ccsds.org <cmc@mailman.ccsds.org><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Gilles.Moury@cnes.fr <Gilles.Moury@cnes.fr>, Clemens Heese <Clemens.Heese@esa.int>, Amber S Massaquoi (AMassaquoi@asrcfederal.com) <AMassaquoi@asrcfederal.com>, CCSDS Secretariat via CESG <cesg@mailman.ccsds.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[EXTERNAL] [CMC] Chair for the Space Link Services Optical Communications Working Group - invitation for candidates + SLS AD proposed candidate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Dear CMC colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">The position of Chair for the Optical Communications (OPT) Working Group of the Space Link Services area is currently vacant and needs to be filled in.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">In agreement with the procedure described in CCSDS Organization and Processes (A02.1-Y-4 cor 2, Sec 2.3.3.4), I would like to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">- invite your respective organizations to submit candidates.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">- inform you that I have identified a suitable candidate for the position: Dr. Jon Hamkins (NASA).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">His application to the position has reached consensus within the Optical Working Group.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Hereafter is his bio.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Dr. Jon Hamkins is the chief technologist of the Communications, Tracking, and Radar division at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He has spent his career primarily
concentrating on advanced channel coding and modulation techniques, including turbo and low-density parity-check codes, ranging, and optical communications. He has been an active participant in helping CCSDS standardize technologies in these areas. In the
RF & Modulation and the Coding & Sync Working Groups, he developed the telemetry ranging and variable coded modulation specifications now adopted as standards. As past chair of the recently revived Time Management Working Group, he helped bring its first major
product to completion, a Green Book describing time transfer, clock correlation, and clock synchronization techniques used by CCSDS agencies. In the Optical Working Group, he wrote the high-photon-efficiency specification for the physical and the coding &
sync layers, which were the first standards adopted by the working group.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Ignacio</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Space Link Services Area Director</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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