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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

Honored by:

Mr. Thomas E. Maultsby has over thirty years experience in military, civil, and commercial space policy, plans, technology, acquisition, and operations. His background includes manned and unmanned space operations, expendable and reusable launch vehicles, space technology, and satellite design, development, production, testing, and integration.

Mr. Maultsby is currently the President and founder of Rubicon, LLC, a company providing specialized support to the space and technology industries in the areas of strategic planning, concept development, studies and analysis, independent reviews, and systems engineering. Prior to founding Rubicon, Mr. Maultsby was a Senior Vice President at GRC International and the Director of their Decision Technologies Division.
Mr. Maultsby had profit and loss responsibility for the Division which provided studies and analyses, modeling and simulation, acquisition support, and technology development to national security, commercial, and international clients. Before joining GRC, Mr. Maultsby was the Director of Advanced Concepts for the McDonnell Douglas Electronics Systems Company where he coordinated research & development in advanced electronics, solid state lasers, artificial intelligence, spacecraft components, and surveillance sensors.

Mr. Maultsby retired from the United States Air Force as a Colonel (Select) after twenty-one years of service. His last assignment was as a Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force where he was responsible for identifying emerging technologies offering significant military leverage and ensuring their early insertion into operational systems. He also represented the Air Force in the interagency policy deliberations following the Challenger accident.

Earlier positions include the Assistant for Space Policy with the Office of the Secretary of Defense where he was a principal author of the Reagan national Space Policy, Shuttle Pricing Policy, and the Commercialization of Expendable launch Vehicles, and the Senior Air Force Representative to NASA Headquarters where he coordinated the national security use of the Space Shuttle and supported the early development and operational flights.

Mr. Maultsby has also been a Program Manager developing and deploying systems to monitor the Nuclear Test Ban Treaties; a satellite systems engineer responsible for the design, development, production, and test of national security satellite systems; and a launch operations engineer responsible for directing over 250 military and contractor personnel in the integration and launch of 22 Titan Agena space launches.

Mr. Maultsby holds a Bachelor and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Louisville in Kentucky and a Master of Science in Systems management from the University of Southern California.

Mr. Maultsby was a member of the Adjunct Faculty at the Florida Institute of Technology between 1977 and 1980 where he taught management and space science courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He is a past Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Security Affairs Support Association (SASA) and has served as a Consultant to the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Space) on commercial space transportation issues. He was the Chairman of three independent reviews of the Cassini Interplanetary Satellite for NASA/JPL, a member of the Kraft Panel that evaluated Shuttle management and organization for the NASA Administrator, and a member of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Space Superiority.

Mr. Maultsby was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He is married to the former Marilyn Beckmann of Jeffersontown, Kentucky. They have two sons, Douglas and Gregory.