Narayanan Komerath is an aerospace engineer and professor with over 35 years of teaching and research at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. He has guided 21 PhDs, 75 MS and over 300 undergraduate research projects. His 430+ publications and 3 U.S. Patents span several areas across aerospace engineering, strategic affairs and advanced concepts. He is a Fellow of the NASA Institute of Advanced Concepts since 2000, showing how to build large radiation-shielded structures in orbit for long-term human habitation. This "Tailored Force Fields for Space Based Construction" project won and completed both Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the NIAC program. In Summer 2004 he was one of Boeing's Welliver Summer Faculty Fellows. From 2004 he served as a Senior Sam Nunn Fellow in the Center for Security, Technology and Policy, and has studied and written on various strategic issues. He works on problems that require ideas and...