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  Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
Sega was born in Cleveland, Ohio; he is of Slovene origin; he is married to Ann Sega and they have two sons.
Sega was the flight engineer for ascent and entry on this mission, performed several experiments on orbit, and operated the robotic arm, berthing the Wake Shield onto its payload bay carrier on four separate occasions.
Sega was the payload commander for this mission and lead on Biorack, a small multipurpose laboratory located in the Spacehab module carried in the Shuttle payload bay.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Ronald_Sega   (1024 words)

  
  Ronald M. Sega - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sega was born in Cleveland, Ohio and is of Slovene origin.
Sega was the flight engineer for ascent and entry on this mission, performed several experiments on orbit, and operated the robotic arm, berthing the Wake Shield onto its payload bay carrier on four separate occasions.
Sega was the payload commander for this mission and lead on Biorack, a small multipurpose laboratory located in the Spacehab module carried in the Shuttle payload bay.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ronald_M._Sega   (1025 words)

  
 Ronald M. Sega   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Sega graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1974, and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force.
Sega is a Co-Principal Investigator of the Wake Shield Facility (WSF)which has flown on Space Shuttle mission STS-60 in February 1994 and STS-69 in 1995, also serving as mission director for WSF.
Sega was a mission specialist on STS-76, the third docking mission to the Russian space station Mir, launched on March 22, 1996 with a crew of six aboard Atlantis.
www.space-explorers.org /bios/sega.html   (976 words)

  
 Ronald M. Sega -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Sega was born in (The largest city in Ohio; located in northeastern Ohio on Lake Erie; a major Great Lakes port) Cleveland, (A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region) Ohio and he is of (A native of Slovenia) Slovene origin.
Sega left NASA on July 1, 1996 to become Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science, (additional info and facts about University of Colorado at Colorado Springs) University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.
Sega now serves as director of (The army of the United States of America; organizes and trains soldiers for land warfare) United States Army Defense Research and Engineering.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/ronald_m._sega.htm   (1282 words)

  
 Biographies : DR. RONALD M. SEGA
Ronald M. Sega is Under Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, D.C. Dr. Sega is responsible for all actions of the Air Force on behalf of the Secretary of the Air Force and is acting Secretary in the Secretary's absence.
Sega was the Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado from 1996 to 2001.
Sega has authored or co-authored more than 100 technical publications, has served on numerous local, regional and national advisory and governance boards, and he is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
www.af.mil /bios/bio.asp?bioID=7901   (848 words)

  
 Sega
Dr. Sega is a Co-Principal Investigator of the Wake Shield Facility (WSF)which has flown on Space Shuttle mission STS-60 in February 1994 and STS-69 in 1995, also serving as mission director for WSF.
Sega was a mission specialist on STS-76, the third docking mission to the Russian space station Mir, launched on March 22, 1996 with a crew of six aboard Atlantis.
Dr. Sega was the Payload Commander for this mission and lead on Biorack, a small multipurpose laboratory located in the Spacehab module carried in the Shuttle payload bay.
www.astronautix.com /astros/sega.htm   (1252 words)

  
 Next Century of Flight: Aviation Week's AviationNow.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Ronald M. Sega, a former astronaut who serves as director of defense research and engineering, is pushing a "National Aerospace Initiative" (NAI) that aims to draw on research across the federal government to meet military needs.
Sega said NAI could push hypersonic technology by "a Mach number a year" until Mach 14 is available in the 2010-12 period.
Sega said some NAI activities could be reflected in the Fiscal 2004 federal budget request that will be assembled this fall for release early next year.
www.aviationnow.com /content/ncof/ncf_n78.htm   (995 words)

  
 Shuttle-Mir History/People/Team Members/Sega
Sega became an astronaut in 1991, and he flew on the shuttle twice as a mission specialist.
Prior to his NASA career, Sega was a pilot in the United States Air Force, and he was also on the faculty of the U.S. Air Force Academy in the Department of Physics.
Sega holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics and physics from the U.S. Air Force Academy, a Master of Science degree in physics from Ohio State University, and a Doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado.
spaceflight.nasa.gov /history/shuttle-mir/people/to-p-t-sega.htm   (153 words)

  
 SIGNAL Magazine
Sega’s organization also is working with government laboratories to offer technical assistance to instructors at the kindergarten through high school levels so that teachers have the knowledge they need to interest students early in the education cycle.
The challenge, Sega points out, is to take into account the work that the commercial sector and other federal government organizations are doing and focus the Defense Department’s investments so they complement and support the department’s warfighting community.
Sega strongly believes in investing in these three initiatives and contends that they are equally important.
www.afcea.org /signal/articles/anmviewer.asp?a=182&print=yes   (1690 words)

  
 SPACE.com -- Hypersonics Work Speeds Ahead
Sega said work in high-speed hypersonics is moving on numbers of fronts, within various organizations and agencies.
Sega said that an NAI goal is to explore and expand hypersonic flight, moving up mach number speeds each year to Mach 15 (15 times the speed of sound) by 2012.
Coming out of such research, Sega said, is the prospect of a two-stage-to-orbit booster, with the first stage using air-breathing technology.
www.space.com /news/nss_hypersonic_030408.html   (260 words)

  
 Sega
Dr. Sega graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1974, and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force.
Dr. Sega is a Co-Principal Investigator of the Wake Shield Facility (WSF)which has flown on Space Shuttle mission STS-60 in February 1994 and STS-69 in 1995, also serving as mission director for WSF.
Dr. Sega was the Payload Commander for this mission and lead on Biorack, a small multipurpose laboratory located in the Spacehab module carried in the Shuttle payload bay.
www.friends-partners.org /partners/mwade/astros/sega.htm   (1135 words)

  
 Market*Access International - Ronald M. Sega   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
RONALD M. The Honorable Ronald M. Sega, Director of Defense Research and Engineering (DDRandE), is the chief technical advisor to the Secretary of Defense and the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (USD-ATandL) for scientific and technical matters, basic and applied research, and advanced technology development.
Sega became the Dean, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs in 1996.
Sega has authored or co-authored over 100 technical publications and was promoted to Professor in 1990.
www.marketaccess.org /bio_sega.asp   (432 words)

  
 Defense R&D chief explains focus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Sega is the chief technical adviser to both the Defense Secretary and the undersecretary of Defense for acquisition, logistics and technology, for scientific and technical matters, basic and applied research, and advanced technology development.
Sega said that pocket "phrase-a-lators" are an example of a DOD program that was successfully accelerated to help fight the global war on terrorism.
Sega, who also oversees the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Army Research Office, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the Office of Naval Research, said that DOD has organized its RandD efforts under three initiatives: the National Aerospace Initiative (NAI), energy and power technologies, and surveillance and knowledge systems.
www.fcw.com:8443 /fcw/articles/2003/0120/web-sega-01-22-03.asp   (652 words)

  
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Ronald Sega, director of defense research and engineering, told the committee DoD's goal is to have 3 percent of its fiscal 2003 budget allotted for science and technology issues.
Sega said DoD approaches science and technology "in an integrated way." Research is coordinated across the services and defense agencies and also reaches out to universities and large and small businesses, he said.
Another device Sega demonstrated for the senators is a translator that converts commonly used phrases into Pashtu, Urdu and Dari, the common languages used in Afghanistan.
www.iwar.org.uk /news-archive/2002/homeland/04-11-02b.htm   (901 words)

  
 Program Manager: PM interviews Dr. Ron Sega, Pentagon's top research & engineering advisor: the recognized challenge of ...
Sega and his staff have refocused the Pentagon's research and engineering efforts on taking an integrated approach to technology and moving those tools quickly to warfighters.
For 2004, Sega is working hard to keep basic research programs funded as more and more dollars are focused on operational capabilities related to the war on terrorism and the current conflict in Iraq.
Sega spoke with Falk from his Pentagon office, sharing his personal perspective on transforming the department's research and engineering capabilities.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0KAA/is_5_32/ai_111506011   (1457 words)

  
 Yorkshire CND - U.S. Military Seeks to Secure Ultimate High Ground - 313/04
The protection of space assets is becoming increasingly important, said Ronald Sega, director of defense research and engineering in the U.S. Department of the Defense.
Sega said there is an array of need-to-have technologies useful for both military and civil space needs.
Sega applauded the recent record-setting flight of the NASA X-43A - a test that demonstrated air-breathing propulsion technology.
cndyorks.gn.apc.org /yspace/articles/securing_high_ground.htm   (599 words)

  
 Fighter plane program plagued by software glitches (1/22/03) -- www.GovernmentExecutive.com
Sega said his office has been examining the startup and running components of that system.
Sega said his office also is working to develop a "whole gamut" of other technologies and systems, and deliver them to warfighters as quickly as possible.
Sega also noted that advanced language-translator applications developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have been tested by U.S. war-fighters in Afghanistan.
www.govexec.com /dailyfed/0103/012203td2.htm   (446 words)

  
 Peacekeeper missile mission ends during ceremony
Hundreds of Airmen and civilians, including Dr. Ronald M. Sega, undersecretary of the Air Force, were on hand to celebrate the Peacekeeper’s role in nuclear deterrence.
Sega, guest speaker at the event, had many words of thanks and appreciation for the people who made the Peacekeeper mission a success throughout its years.
President Ronald Reagan renamed it "Peacekeeper" in November 1982.
www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/usa/2005/usa-050920-afpn01.htm   (282 words)

  
 Chaos's Lair:Home of the World Famous "Father of All and Nothing"
Sega needs to apologize and do whatever is necessary to bring this great company back into the fold.
Sega, this is the most disturbing thing that you have ever done.  It's stupidity is unmatched in the entire gaming business.  I bought your system to play RPGs, and only for that reason!  It's mistakes like these that convince a life-long Sega fan not to get your next system.
Sega, you have been dubbed the king of RPG's for next-generation systems in america.  In fact, that is the only market where you are unmatched thus far.  Plasytation's got the next Final Fantasy, but that won't be for a long while.
www.geocities.com /SiliconValley/Park/7325/stupid_sega.html   (4331 words)

  
 Pentagon and NASA team up to design hypersonic plane
Ronald Sega, the Defense Department's chief technology officer and a former astronaut, recently told Congress the United States will probably develop within a decade an aircraft that can fly 12 times the speed of sound.
The Pentagon sees hypersonic flight as the key to a smaller, faster, more flexible war machine that is less dependent on overseas air bases in politically volatile places.
Sega counters that some of the basic technology for a "Mach twelve-by-twelve" timetable is available from NASA and other hypersonics research dating to the 1950s.
www.post-gazette.com /healthscience/20030519sonicplane0519p6.asp   (1010 words)

  
 Defense sharpens focus on integration
The war on terrorism and a push to transform the Defense Department into a more unified organization are driving the research and development directorate of the DOD to begin thinking more in terms of integrating systems and gadgets in the initial phase of development and to roll these technologies out faster to support war efforts.
Sega spoke in Washington yesterday during a briefing sponsored by Defense Week magazine.
Sega said the Combating Terrorism Technology Task Force was established Sept. 19, 2001, as a way for technology vendors to submit their best technologies—or ones they could develop quickly—to assist warfighters in Operation Enduring Freedom and with homeland security.
www.gcn.com /vol1_no1/daily-updates/20945-1.html   (285 words)

  
 DoD - 9/11Encyclopedia
Sega was nominated for the staff of Bush only a few weeks before the Sept 11th attack, on June 7, 2001 He was already appointed on August 3, 2001 and started to refine his skills.
Sega has logged over 420 hours in space.
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/sega.html On the same day, when Sega was nominated for the US government, John Paul Stenbit was nominated for the Department of Defense, too.
www.911review.org /Sept11Wiki/DoD.shtml   (1285 words)

  
 SPACE.com -- Hypersonics Work Speeds Ahead
Sega said work in high-speed hypersonics is moving on numbers of fronts, within various organizations and agencies.
Sega said that an NAI goal is to explore and expand hypersonic flight, moving up mach number speeds each year to Mach 15 (15 times the speed of sound) by 2012.
Coming out of such research, Sega said, is the prospect of a two-stage-to-orbit booster, with the first stage using air-breathing technology.
space.com /news/nss_hypersonic_030408.html   (357 words)

  
 What's New October 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The proposal was described the week of Sept. 30 in a briefing by Ronald Sega, who directs DMSO's parent organization, the Defense Research and Engineering Office.
Sega briefed his boss, Michael Wynne, the Pentagon's principal deputy undersecretary for acquisition, technology and logistics.
Sega resisted the DMSO proposal in a July 9 memo to Aldridge.
www.simulationinformation.com /whatsnewoctober2002.html   (8565 words)

  
 White House Personnel Announcement: Ronald M. Sega | SpaceRef - Your Space Reference
The President intends to nominate Ronald M. Sega, of Colorado, to be Under Secretary of the Air Force.
Sega currently serves as Director of Defense Research and Engineering at the Department of Defense.
Sega received his bachelor's degree from the United States Air Force Academy, his master's degree from Ohio State University and his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado.
www.spaceref.com /news/viewpr.html?pid=17274   (520 words)

  
 Ronald Sega
Ronald Sega is an American astronaut who was born on December 4, 1952, in Ohio.
Sega made his first spaceflight aboard STS-60 in 1994.
Before he became an astronaut, Sega worked as a physicist in Colorado.
www.windows.ucar.edu /people/astronauts/sega.html   (254 words)

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