22 Facts About Robert Briskman

Robert D Briskman was born on October 15,1932 and is Technical Executive of Sirius XM Radio.

Robert Briskman was the Chief Technical Officer and Executive Vice President, Engineering of Sirius Satellite Radio since its founding in 1991.

Robert Briskman graduated from Poly Prep Country Day School in Brooklyn, New York in 1950.

Robert Briskman was responsible at Geostar for the development, design, implementation and operation of the Radio Determination Satellite Service provided by Geostar, which allowed positioning and message communications between mobile users nationwide and their dispatch centers.

Robert Briskman directed the construction of Geostar's space segment, the control and operations center and the development of the mobile terminals used on land, sea and airborne vehicles built by the SONY, Hughes Network Systems and Kenwood Corporations.

Robert Briskman was responsible for the development of a miniaturized handheld transceiver by Motorola, which was the world's smallest satellite earth terminal.

Robert Briskman was later a Department Manager in the Transmission Systems Division, where he was involved with the development and implementation of the Intelsat global communications system.

Robert Briskman joined COMSAT General Corporation on its founding in 1973 and was Assistant Vice President, Space and Information Systems.

Robert Briskman was responsible for the Comstar satellite system, the development of Earth resource and information systems, and the implementation of the first remote satellite data collection system in conjunction with the United States Geological Survey and Telesat Canada.

Robert Briskman directed the construction of the Southbury and Santa Paula earth stations which were used for command and control of both Marisat and Comstar satellites and for shore communications to the Atlantic and Pacific Marisat satellites.

Robert Briskman joined Satellite Business Systems in mid-1977 where he was responsible for the Pre-Operational Program which provided voice and data communications services to many IBM facilities in the United States using the first demand-assigned, time division multiple access system ever placed in commercial operations.

Robert Briskman returned to COMSAT General in 1980 where he was responsible as Vice President, Systems Implementation for the engineering of satellites, earth stations and communications technical facilities of COMSAT General and of clients, both within and external to COMSAT.

Robert Briskman's organization provided a complete range of technical services nationally and internationally, including those involved with software, spectrum engineering and teleconferencing.

Robert Briskman was responsible for Indonesia's domestic satellite system Palapa, Mexico's Morelos, Arabsat, and Italsat programs, as well as for providing support to the Inmarsat, Intelsat, STC, Telstar-3, Alascom, Satcol, Unisat, Intelmet, Nordsat, Chinasat, and Cameroon programs.

At NASA, Robert Briskman was Chief of Program Support for the Office of Tracking and Data Acquisition.

Robert Briskman was involved with the development of ground instrumentation for such projects as Apollo, Gemini, Ranger, Mariner, and Echo.

Robert Briskman received the Apollo Achievement Award from NASA for the design and implementation of the Unified S-Band System.

Robert Briskman was engaged in communications systems development and analysis.

In 2008 Robert Briskman joined the Board of Directors of GenMobi Technologies, a Silicon Valley company that developed anti-fraud applications including Check-Mates and Authidex.

Robert Briskman has authored over fifty technical papers, holds many United States and foreign patents, served on the Industry Advisory Council to NASA, and is a licensed professional engineer.

Robert Briskman is a Fellow of the AIAA, which gave him its 2007 Aerospace Communications Award, and the Washington Academy of Science, past President of the Washington Society of Engineers, and a member of IAA, AFCEA and the Old Crows.

Robert Briskman was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering.