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Richard L. McKinley is the principal acoustics engineer at the 711 Human Performance Wing, Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. He received a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering from Vanderbilt University and a master’s degree in commu- nications and digital signal processing from the Air Force Institute of Technology. Mr. McKinley began his tenure at AFRL in 1976 and has led the development of high perform- ance hearing protection, establishment of noise exposure cri- teria, measurement of intense noise fields, enhancement of voice communication performance, and development of 3-D auditory displays. Mr. McKinley is the USAF voting member for three ASA/ANSI accredited standards committees. He chairs two standards working groups and has over 150 publi- cations in acoustics and noise. In 1996, he was elected Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America.
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