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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Sami, Colleagues of CMC,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As mentioned during the SIS area reporting during last week CMC meeting, Rodney Grubbs has concluded his NASA emeritus status on June 7<sup>th</sup> and since there the position of SIS-MIA WG chair is vacant. After some additional discussions
within the WG, on Friday I’ve finally received the confirmation that the current WG deputy chair, i.e. Falk Schiffner (DLR), can take over such a role (there were initially some contractual issues that have been solved with his management) and indeed looking
forward to starting working as new leader of the WG.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Nevertheless, in order to make the process fair and open to other nominations, I’d like to invite you all to check within your agencies whether you may want to indicate additional candidates for such a position. As usual, SIS-MIA being
an already existing WG, I’d appreciate if you could return your indications until August 1<sup>st</sup> (i.e. for a window of 1 month starting from today).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tomaso<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span lang="DE" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:dimgray;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Institute of Communications and Navigation | Satellite Networks | Oberpfaffenhofen | 82234 Wessling | Germany</span><span lang="DE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:dimgray;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Tomaso de Cola, Ph.D.</span></b><span lang="IT" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> |
</span><b><span lang="IT" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:dimgray;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Integrated Satellite Systems (INS) Team Leader<br>
</span></b><span lang="DE" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:dimgray;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Telefon +49 8153 28-2156 | Telefax +49 8153 28-2844 |</span><span lang="DE" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">
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