Clifford H. Arth is a member of the Communication System Integration Branch of the Communications Division at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field in Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Arth is currently a communications engineer for the advanced satellite communications program. He is responsible for evaluating NASA and industry communication service needs. As a market and technology analyst, his activities involve the study of the communication user market and system requirements. He also assesses advanced communication technology to determine impact on services and end costs. These studies of space and terrestrial communication network architectures include link analysis, marketing studies, technology definition, and cost-benefit analysis. They support the planning and development of advanced space communication systems for NASA missions and those of other government agencies. Mr. Arth has also served as a contracting officer’s technical representative (COTR) on Government contracts and grants of space communications studies in support of NASA missions. Mr. Arth’s most recent project was for the Nuclear Systems Initiation (NSI), which studied the feasibility and cost of deploying a communications relay satellite around Mars. The second was for the feasibility of a Jovian Icy Moons Orbiter for the Prometheus mission.

Mr. Arth earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Detroit in 1962. He earned a Juris Doctor law degree from the Cleveland Marshall School of Law at Cleveland State University in 1970.

In the past, Mr. Arth served as a systems electrical engineer with the Center’s launch vehicle program, with responsibilities pertaining to the procurement and the verification of the operational flight readiness status of various systems aboard the lower stage Atlas and the second stage Centaur space launch vehicles.