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Edward B. Kiker is the General Engineer for the Office of the Chief Scientist, Operational Support Office for the US Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He is responsible for searching out new technologies that can be applied to space to keep the United States the preeminent space power. He attended Harvard University in the Army ROTC program during 1966-70, with major in Lunar Geology. He served 1971-75 on active duty as an Engineer Officer in Alaska, Korea, and Fort Belvoir, Virginia. He served 1975-79 as an Armored Cavalry Arctic Scouts Officer with the Alaska Army National Guard. His civilian service began in 1975 as Natural Resources Specialist at Ft. Greely, AK, with LANDSAT satellite imagery work and environmental management. Between 1981-84 he served as Alaska State Director, Project High Frontier, developing a notional National Ballistic Missile Defense System and Commercial Space Activity. In 1987 Ed moved to the Army Space Institute, Ft. Leavenworth, KS, where he wrote the first Required Operational Capabilities Plan and the Organizational and Operational Plan for the functioning of the current Ground-Based Missile Defense System operated by the US Army Space and Missile Defense Command. He was also the Army Training and Doctrine Command Point of Contact for the Space Exploration Initiative. He represented the Army Corps of Engineers at the Second International Fusion Energy Conference, and at International Lunar Base Design Conferences here and in Beatenberg, Switzerland.

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