Dr. Townes is the Chief Technologist of the Interplanetary Network Directorate and Manager of the Technology, Standards and Spectrum Program Office at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). He is currently the General Secretary and Chair of the Management Council of the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS). During his career at JPL he has been the Deputy Manager of the Systems Concepts, Integration and Planning Office, Deputy Project Manager of the Mars Laser Communication Demonstration, Manager of the Communications Systems and Research Section, and an analyst for various projects related to the Deep Space Network. He is a Principal Engineer.
He has also worked at The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA, in adaptive signal processing for communications and radar and at Stanford Telecommunications, Inc., Mountain View, CA, as an analyst for GPS and digital communications systems.
He has a PhD, MS and BE in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University, Stanford University and Vanderbilt University respectively.
He is the current President of the JPL Amateur Radio Club (https://jplarc.ampr.org), holds an Advanced Class license and was originally licensed in 1969 as WN4ILW. These days he can mostly be found on FT8 and FT4, 160m-10m (except 60 m—no transmitter).
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