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 NEWS  Federal  Communications  Commission  445  12  th  Street,  S.  W.  Washington,  D.  C.  20554  This  is  an  unofficial  announcement  of  Commission  action.  Release  of  the  full  text  of  a  Commission  order  constitutes  official  action.  See  MCI  v.  FCC.  515  F  2d  385  (D.  C.  Circ  1974).  News  Media  Information  202  /  418-  0500  Internet:  http://  www.  fcc.  gov  TTY:  1-  888-  835-  5322 
 GEORGE  DILLON  NAMED  ASSISTANT  CHIEF  OF  THE  ENFORCEMENT  BUREAU 
 Washington,  D.  C.  –  George  R.  Dillon  has  been  named  Assistant  Bureau  Chief  of  the  Enforcement  Bureau. 
 Mr.  Dillon  most  recently  served  as  the  Bureau’s  Engineering  Advisor,  assisting  the  Bureau  Chief  on  a  wide  range  of  public  safety,  technical  and  management  projects.  Mr.  Dillon  also  represents 
 the  Bureau  on  the  Commission’s  “Engineering-  in-  Training”  Board,  for  which  he  received  the  Chairman’s  Special  Achievement  Award,  and  was  the  principal  leader  of  the  Knowledge  Sharing 
 Program,  which  permits  field  engineers  and  headquarters  engineers  to  exchange  information  and  expertise.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Spectrum  Policy  Task  Force.  In  his  new  position,  Mr. 
 Dillon  will  continue  to  work  on  these  and  similar  matters. 
 An  FCC  employee  since  1977,  Mr.  Dillon  began  his  career  at  the  Powder  Springs,  Georgia  Special  Enforcement  Facility.  In  1984,  after  serving  in  the  Houston,  Texas  field  office,  he 
 transferred  to  Washington,  D.  C.,  where  he  worked  in  the  Investigations  and  Inspections  Branch  of  the  former  Field  Operations  Bureau  and  was  the  lead  investigator  in  the  Commission’s 
 successful  resolution  of  two  deliberate  satellite  jamming  episodes.  Mr.  Dillon  also  served  as  the  Chief  of  the  Aviation  and  Marine  Branch  of  the  former  Private  Radio  Bureau  from  1990  to  1995. 


 Prior  to  joining  the  Commission,  Mr.  Dillon  worked  at  Kennedy  Space  Center,  Florida  as  a  control  system  engineer  on  the  Apollo  and  Apollo-  Soyuz  launch  vehicles. 
 Mr.  Dillon  served  in  the  United  States  Air  Force  from  1963  to  1967.  He  is  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Florida,  where  he  received  a  Bachelor  of  Science  degree  in  electronics  engineering. 


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 FOR  IMMEDIATE  RELEASE:  July  26,  2004  NEWS  MEDIA  CONTACT:  Janice  Wise  418-  8165 
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