Michael Watkins (see photo) has been appointed director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and vice president at Caltech. Wat-kins served as mission system manager for the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover. He succeeds Charles Elachi, who is retiring and will move to the Caltech faculty. Vanilla Aircraft of Falls Church, Virginia, has named Rear Adm. (ret.) Timothy Heely CEO. While in service, Heely was instrumental in the development and deployment of UAS for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps in 2004-08.
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