Mark K. Simon, an internationally recognized expert on spread-spectrum systems, is a senior scientist at Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Jim K. Omura is founder and chairman of Cylink Corporation, which designs and manufactures spread-spectrum radios.

Robert A. Scholtz is director of the Communications Science Insitute at the University of Southern California.

Barry K. Levitt is technical leader of the Communications Concepts Research Group at Jet Propulsion Laboratory.