Kevin Gifford

Kevin Gifford received a B.S. from the Colorado School of Mines, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Colorado Boulder. His research interests focus on spectrum engineering, spectrum sharing, wireless communications, planetary surface networks, wireless communications for space exploration and public safety. In his communications-related work, notable contributions include: Leading the teams that were the very first to fly the Linux operating system on both the Space Shuttle (1996) and on the International Space Station (2000); in 2012, Kevin was a lead member of the NASA Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) team that established the first two Interplanetary Internet nodes onboard the International Space Station enabling Internet-based communications in the vast and harsh environment of space; in 2013, Kevin composed the NASA Institutional DTN deployment plan, and in 2015 DTN service provision was a seminal NASA-provided space communications service available or all International Space Station partners. Kevin is the Working Group chairman of the Wireless Working Group, for the ISO affiliated Consultative Committee on Space Data Systems, CCSDS.