The Pentagon's former top innovator, Dr. Anthony J. Tether, has joined our distinguished and growing Board of Directors. Dr. Tether served for eight years as the director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA. Earlier this year Sigma Space hired its Chief Science Officer, Dr. Phil DeCola, who previously served as a science advisor to two administrations in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and as NASA Headquarter's Lead Scientist for Atmospheric Composition.

DARPA is the Defense Department’s highest-end research and development group that has made major contributions to information technology, and most famously launched the earliest Internet, in the late 1960s.

“The appointment of Dr. Tether is a significant event for our Company: his expertise, accumulated over a celebrated career in science, government and technology, will provide enabling perspective for our research and development programs, in particular for NASA aerospace technology,” said Dr. Marcos Sirota, president and CEO of Sigma Space.

“Sigma Space is a small and flexible company with an eclectic, world-class technical staff and an orientation to revolutionary breakthroughs,” said Dr. Tether recognizing in Sigma Space many of the characteristics that contributed to his success at DARPA.

Shortly after leaving DARPA in 2009, Dr. Tether re-formed The Sequoia Group (TSG), which serves government and industrial clients. The Sequoia Group provides program management and strategy development services to government and industry. He is also a Distinguished Fellow with the Council on Competitiveness located in Washington DC.

Sigma Space Corporation announced the appointment of Dr. Phil DeCola, as its Chief Science Officer. In his new position, Dr. DeCola will lead a new vertically integrated enterprise for the company. This enterprise will deploy Sigma's Earth observation instruments together with modeling and analysis tools to deliver environmental knowledge for public, private, and commercial resource management.

Before joining Sigma Space, Dr. DeCola served two administrations as Senior Policy Analyst in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and prior to that he served as Lead Scientist for Atmospheric Composition in the NASA Science Mission Directorate Earth Science Division.

"Dr. DeCola's appointment is an enabling event for our company. His expertise and reach will provide unique leadership for our new environmental data services program. This is a crucial moment for the future of our planet, and the ability of our company to produce scientific data of immediate use for environmental management decisions is quite humbling, challenging, and exciting. Phil is a true asset for our enterprise," said Dr. Marcos Sirota, president and CEO of Sigma Space.

"Resource management decisions and policy are best made on the firm bedrock of the latest and best scientific information. Our vision is to unlock the full potential of Earth observations to monitor, diagnose and project the state and changes of natural and human systems. We want to make this information accessible and useful, while ensuring that it is embedded in world class science," said Dr. Phil DeCola, Chief Science Officer of Sigma.

Dr DeCola's career in NASA focused on scientific applications of space-based remote-sensing of Earth's atmosphere, land, and oceans for advancing Earth system science and global change research. He was co-Chair of the U.S. Group on Earth Observations (USGEO) and led the USGEO assessment and planning of research and observational needs for quantifying environmental services and improving resource management. He has served as lead scientist for U.S. Government delegations to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has been the U.S. science focal point for IPCC since 2003, and has worked on the IPCC scientific assessments since 1994.

In addition to being a company Officer, Dr. DeCola will join Sigma Board of Directors. He joins Dr. Mary Cleave, General (retired) John Hall, Mr. Tom Bouchard, Dr. Marcos Sirota, and Mr. Joe Marzouk on Sigma's Board.

Sigma Space Corporation produces pioneering instrumentation in lidar, laser ranging, attitude determination, and radiometry for scientific remote sensing and defense applications, as well as scientific data processing and analysis services. As a market leader in these areas, Sigma has become one of the fastest growing providers in the sector.

LANHAM, Md. April 28, 2010

As part of its goal to advance science and support NASA efforts, Sigma Space sponsored Chief Support Scientist Peter Griffith's efforts to host and organize the April 2010 meeting of the Science Steering Group (SSG) of the North American Carbon Program (NACP) in Washington, D.C.

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NASA has selected Sigma Space Corporation to provide Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Support Services (HBSSS).

"To explore and understand the Earth's hydrosphere and biosphere, and the linkages between the oceans, land, atmosphere and life on Earth"