Philip Kenul is a Senior Vice President, TriVector Services and serves as Chair, ASTM Committee F38 on Unmanned Aircraft Systems developing UAS standards.
RDML Kenul (ret) served as a NOAA Corps officer focused on marine and aviation operations. RDML Kenul flew aircraft in support of aeronautical charting and trained with the Navy to become a WP-3D Orion aircraft pilot. He served as an Aircraft Commander with NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters, as Director, NOAA Homeland Security Program Office, Commanding Officer, NOAA Aircraft Operations Center, and Director, NOAA Marine and Aviation Operations Centers responsible for NOAA’s fleet of ships and aircraft. He has been directly involved with unmanned systems since the early start of these emerging technologies in NOAA.
RDML Kenul holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from the State University of New York at Cortland and a master’s degree in environmental and civil engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
Memberships:
• European UAS Standards Coordinating Group (EUSCG),
• Steering Committee for the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Standardization Collaborative (UASSC),
• Co-Chair, ANSI Airworthiness Working Group,
• Joint Authorities for Rulemaking on Unmanned Systems (JARUS) Stakeholder Consultation Body (SCB),
• ICAO Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems Panel (RPASP),
• ICAO Advanced Air Mobility Study Group,
• Transport Canada Drone Advisory Committee (CANADAC).
