NPOESS Program

John D. Cunningham

John D. Cunningham has been the System Program Director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Integrated Program Office for NPOESS on November 1, 1999, after retiring from the Air Force after a 30 year career. During his career, he spent 25 years building and operating satellites and space-based remote sensors. He had multiple assignments with the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program as a sensor engineer, satellite engineer for the Block 5D-1 satellites, as Program Element Monitor on the Air Staff, and as Director of

Engineering. In his previous position, he was program director for a satellite system at the National Reconnaissance Office. He received a B.S. in Physics from Texas A&M University and a M.S. in Astronautical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology.