Nick Fuhrman is Director of the Aerospace Innovation Center. For the past decade, Fuhrman has been recognized as a leader in international space policy. His opinion and analysis have been sought by CNN, The American Spectator, Space News, The Wall Street Journal and other media. Since 2003, Fuhrman provided live-on-air analysis for CNN, CNN Headline News, CNN International and CNNfn. Starting on the day of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, Fuhrman was enlisted as the cable network’s Space Policy Analyst to enhance its breaking news coverage of the accident, recovery and investigation. CNN continues to rely on Fuhrman to discuss international space exploration efforts and the National Vision for Space Exploration. From 1991 to 1996, Fuhrman served in the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, the authorization and oversight committee of jurisdiction for NASA. Shortly after being named to the Committee staff by then-ranking Republican member of the Subcommittee, F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr., (R-WI-5), Fuhrman also assumed the Committee staff lead on space policy with the former Soviet Union. In 1992, Fuhrman prepared the testimony of former President Ronald Reagan, advocating a space partnership with Russia. Fuhrman then assisted the House Committee on Foreign Relations by crafting Title V of the FREEDOM Support Act, which authorized NASA and U.S. contractors to pursue space technology available in Russia. In 1993 and 1994, as NASA redesigned the International Space Station program around cooperative agreements with Russia, Fuhrman developed critical analyses and white papers Congress used to guide NASA’s program negotiations with the Russian Space Agency. Fuhrman entered the federal research and development world in the 1980’s when he won the Defense Nuclear Agency’s $80 million superconducting magnetic energy storage program for the University of Wisconsin. Fuhrman was recently Director of Business Development for EMS Technologies, Inc., a space electronics manufacturer based in Norcross, GA., where he spearheaded the company’s licensing agreement with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab.