Jere H Mitchell

Dr. Jason W. Mitchell is currently the Assistant Chief for Technology in the Mission Engineering and Systems Analysis Division at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). He received his PhD in 2000, from the University of Cincinnati in Aerospace Engineering, and then joined the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Air Vehicles Directorate at Wright-Patterson AFB as a National Research Council sponsored postdoctoral Visiting Scientist investigating spacecraft formation flying and uncrewed vehicle cooperative decision and control. Since joining NASA GSFC in 2004, he has participated in the development of the record holding high-altitude GPS receiver for the Magnetospheric Multi-Scale (MMS) mission, the Station Explorer for X-ray Timing and Navigation Technology (SEXTANT) that demonstrated onboard and real-time navigation using X-ray emitting millisecond pulsars (XNAV) for the first time as part of the Neutron-Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) mission, X-ray communications, and numerous other navigation and communication technologies.