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Dr. Gerald Sayer
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Biographical Sketch
Gerald R Sayer, PhD is a Senior Advisor to the Director of Information Dominance Programs, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisitions) (SAF/AQI).
Dr Sayer is Senior Advisor on Airspace Integration and Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). He has been actively involved with remotely-piloted vehicles since 1973. As Cofounder and President of Developmental Sciences, Inc.(1970-1994), he led the development of the Sky Eye family of UAS, squadrons of which were stood up in Thailand, Morocco and Egypt during the 1980’s. Later he was involved with the concept, development and testing of the Condor HALE UAS which, in 1989, set a world record of 36 hours of flight above 60,000 ft. He continued working on HALE UAS concepts both lighter-than-air and fixed wing; until he accepted his current assignment in 2008. He serves on the OSD UAS Task Force and Senior Steering Group, Joint UAS Center of Excellence Airspace Integration team EXCOM and is SAF/AQI’s airspace integration lead. Dr. Sayer has presented and published over 94 papers in the aeronautical sciences field.
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