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**March 10, 2004 Lauren M. Van Wazer**

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**FCC OFFICE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY ANNOUNCES SEVERAL PERSONNEL
PROMOTIONS**

Washington, DC -- Edmond J. Thomas, Chief of the Office of Engineering
and Technology (OET) at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC),
made the following personnel promotions:

**Ira Keltz** has been promoted to Chief, Electromagnetic Compatibility
Division. Mr. Keltz has been Deputy Chief of OET's Policy and Rules
Division since June 2002. As Deputy Chief, Mr. Keltz has managed a
variety of spectrum policy rulemakings, most notably, the Advanced
Wireless Services (3G) proceeding, implementing World Radiocommunication
Conference allocations, and proceedings relating to Part 15 unlicensed
devices. In addition, Mr. Keltz served as the FCC's liaison to the
federal government's Interdepartmental Radio Advisory Committee (IRAC),
which helps set federal government spectrum policy.

Since joining the Commission in 1994, Mr. Keltz has also held positions
within the FCC\'s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, where he managed
the implementation of the Bureau\'s Universal Licensing System and
worked on issues related to both private and commercial radio services.
Prior to the FCC, Mr. Keltz held positions with Loral Advanced Projects
and LSA, Inc. Mr. Keltz received a M.S.E. in Electrical Engineering from
George Washington University and a B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering from
the University of Michigan.

**Jamison S. Prime** has been promoted to Chief, Spectrum Policy Branch,
Policy and Rules Division. Mr. Prime joined OET in 2001 and since that
time has worked on a number of reallocation issues, including Advanced
Wireless Services (3G) and DTV implementation. From 1997 to 2001, he
worked in the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau as an attorney in the
former Public Safety and Private Wireless Division on evaluation of
transfer and assignment of Commission licenses and on antenna structure
registration matters and, on detail, as a legal advisor in the bureau
front office.

Prior to joining the Commission, Mr. Prime worked for the National
Railroad Passenger Corporation in Chicago and was in private legal
practice in Indiana. Mr. Prime received a B.A. in history from DePauw
University and a J.D. from the Indiana University School of Law. While
studying at Indiana, served as a member of the student editorial
board of and was published in the Federal Communications Law Journal
(FCLJ).  Currently, Mr. Prime is a member of the Federal Communications
Bar Association\'s editorial advisory board to the FCLJ.

**Ronald J. Chase** has been promoted to Chief, Technical Analysis
Branch, Electromagnetic Compatibility Division. Since joining the
Commission in 2000, Mr. Chase has been a senior electrical engineer. His
primary responsibilities included the development of UWB operational
rules, and EM modeling and simulation activities supporting the
development of rules for broadband over power line communications. He
serves as the FCC's representative on the Government Executive Committee
of the Electromagnetic Code Consortium (EMCC). In 2002, he was appointed
to head the U.S. delegation on the development of recommendations for
administrations on ultra-wideband communications.

Prior to the FCC, Mr. Chase held positions in the Army's Harry Diamond
Laboratory (now the Army Research Laboratory or ARL), where he worked as
a research scientist for 26 years. Early on in his career at the lab, he
worked on assessing and protecting communication assets to high altitude
electromagnetic pulse and was the field test director for the Army's
Generic Verification facility. He led several multidisciplinary efforts
including studies of the reliability of the Public Switched Telephone
Network (PSTN) for National Communications Systems, and the
environmental assessment of the ARL Woodbridge facility. More recently,
his work at the lab involved establishing a radar signature prediction
capability employing the best national electromagnetic codes supported
by the Army's high performance computing assets.

Mr. Chase received a B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering and a M.S. in
Physics from the University of Maryland. He also received a Professional
degree in Electrophysics from the George Washington University. He is a
member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE),
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), American
Institute of Physics (AIP), American Association of Physics Teachers
(AAPT), Mathematical Association of America (MAA), American Physical
Society (APS), Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL), Tau-Beta-Pi, and
Eta-Kappa-Nu.

 

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