1. Greg Autry was born on April 25,1963 and is an American space policy expert, educator, entrepreneur and author.
47 Facts About Greg Autry
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Greg Autry is the Professor of Practice in the College of Business and Associate Provost for Space Commercialization and Strategy at the University of Central Florida where he leads the college's efforts to deliver Executive and MBA programs in Space Commercialization while helping the university craft and implement a roadmap for its space efforts.
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Greg Autry serves as the Vice President for Space Development at the National Space Society and Chairs the Business Case sub-committee for NASA's In Space Production Applications program which sends manufacturing experiments to the International Space Station.
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Greg Autry is a former assistant professor of Clinical Entrepreneurship in Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.
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Greg Autry served on the NASA Agency Review Team for the incoming Trump administration in 2016 and temporarily as the White House Liaison at NASA in 2017.
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Greg Autry holds an MBA and PhD from the University of California, Irvine.
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Greg Autry received a BA in history from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona in 1999, an MBA from the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine in 2002, and a PhD in management from the University of California, Irvine in 2013.
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Greg Autry collected data from interviews with commercial space actors as well as information from industry journals and presentations at industry conferences.
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From 1983 to 1984 Greg Autry worked for Honeywell's Training and Control Systems Division in West Covina, California developing software for the production department in support of various military projects.
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Greg Autry coded 6502 assembly for the Autopheresis C plasmapheresis system, a machine that extracts plasma and platelets from whole blood during donations.
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Greg Autry coded 8080 assembly for a robotic assembly system that produced the disposable filter kits for that device.
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Greg Autry founded Riverside Doctor Micro, Inc in 1987 with Daniel Haste.
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Greg Autry joined CompuCom as Technical Services Manager overseeing their branches in several Western US cities including Los Angeles and Orange County.
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Greg Autry founded Network Corps, a network engineering and software development firm, with Brian Bishop in 1997.
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In 2015, Greg Autry cofounded Elevated Materials; a startup launched by USC engineering student Ryan Olliges to upcycle scrap carbon fiber material from aerospace production.
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Greg Autry was hired as an adjunct professor in 2013 by the USC Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.
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Greg Autry left USC in July 2020 following the announcement of his nomination by the President to serve as the chief financial officer at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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Greg Autry joined the Thunderbird School of Global Management in April 2021 as Clinical Professor of Space Leadership, Policy and Business where he led the development of a space initiative at ASU's new campus in downtown Los Angeles.
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Dr Greg Autry joined the University of Central Florida in the fall of 2024 as the Professor of Practice in the College of Business and Associate Provost for Space Commercialization and Strategy.
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Greg Autry teaches space entrepreneurship in a Graduate Certificate Program in Commercial Space offered by International Space University and Florida Institute of Technology.
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Greg Autry is a visiting professor at the Institute for Security Science and Technology at Imperial College London.
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Greg Autry's first academic publication was a 2011 paper in the proceedings of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics SPACE 2011 conference entitled "Space Policy, Intergenerational Ethics and the Environment" which argued that public investment in space technology was justified by future economic, societal and environmental returns.
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Greg Autry currently serves on the editorial board of that journal.
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Greg Autry published numerous articles and op-eds in newspapers and news sites throughout the 2000s and 2010s.
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Greg Autry's work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, LA Times, Washington Times, and Newsweek.
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Greg Autry is extensively quoted in mainstream media articles on the space industry and on China policy.
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Greg Autry has appeared on television many times including the BBC and CNN.
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Greg Autry is an advocate for the human settlement of the Solar System.
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Greg Autry asserts that this movement is required to secure continued global economic development and long-term environmental sustainability which he does not believe can be achieved via traditional "green" solutions.
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Greg Autry serves as vice president for Space Development at the National Space Society and previously served on its board of directors.
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Greg Autry has been a noted critic of the Chinese Communist Party for more than a decade, arguing that the Government of China has violated human rights, labor norms, environmental norms, treaty obligations, and trade agreements.
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In 2011, Greg Autry published Death by China with Peter Navarro, a professor at UC Irvine with whom he had written many op-eds and articles.
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Greg Autry has twice testified to the United States Congress on China issues.
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Greg Autry warned that China's Internet intrusions against US firms was costing the American economy hundreds of billions of dollars, jobs and in consequence of the hazard of unemployment, thousands of American lives lost.
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On March 28,2012, Greg Autry presented testimony entitled "The Price of Public Diplomacy with China" to the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Oversights and Investigations.
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Greg Autry testified to the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee at a nomination hearing on November 10,2020.
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Greg Autry noted the challenges of 2020 faced on Earth and reminded the committee that the Apollo landings occurred during a period of war, civil unrest, and even a major pandemic.
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On February 3,2022, Dr Greg Autry participated in the Oxford Union Society Space Race Debate as a proponent of the human habitation of Mars.
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Greg Autry is a member of the Committee on the Present Danger.
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President Trump nominated Dr Greg Autry to serve as the Chief Financial Officer at NASA on July 27,2020.
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On March 24,2025, the White House forwarded a nomination to the US Senate for Greg Autry to serve as Chief Financial Officer of NASA.
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Greg Autry emphasized the importance of the CFO's position in maximizing efficiencies, refining internal processes, and ensuring effective stewardship of taxpayer funding.
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Greg Autry served as an advisor to Relativity Space, a startup rocket manufacturer using additive manufacturing that raised over $1.2 billion.
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Greg Autry has advised Relativity's founders since their time as students at USC.
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Greg Autry served on the board of the National Space Society from 2018 to 2020 and continues to serve as vice president for Space Development.
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Greg Autry was appointed to the Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee in 2018.
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Greg Autry was reappointed to the committee in 2020 and appointed as Chair of the Safety Working Group; his two-year term ended in 2022.