Brian O’Keeffe is the Managing Director of FANS PLANS P/L which provides high level advice on the planning and implementation of FANS CNS/ATM Systems. He is also Adjunct Professor in Communications Engineering at the University of Canberra. He continues to organise annual workshops in FANS CNS/ATM at the Singapore Aviation Academy and is a consultant to Honeywell Inc.

Until leaving Airservices in 1997, he was the Special Technical Adviser to the Chief Executive. He was also Chairman of the ICAO CNS/ATM Implementation Coordination sub-group of the Asia Pacific Air Navigation Planning and Implementation Regional Group (APANPIRG).

He was the Australian member of the ICAO Special Committee on Future Air Navigation Systems (FANS) since its formation in 1983 and was its Vice-Chairman, then Chairman until it finished its work in 1993.

In recent years he was a member of the US Government-Industry Free Flight Steering Committee and, in 1997, was invited to make a presentation to the US Vice President’s White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security.

He has received numerous awards from the US Federal Aviation Administration, the Air Traffic Control Association and the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore.

He was appointed an Officer in the Order of Australia in January 1992 in recognition of his service to civil aviation, particularly international civil aviation.

He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia and the Australian Institute of Navigation. The Royal Institute of Navigation (UK) awarded him Honorary Membership.

In January 1995, he was awarded "Aviation Week’s Aerospace Laureate in Electronics in 1994" and in 1997 was inducted into the Hall of Fame at the Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC.

Monash University conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Laws honoris causa in 1998.

He was awarded the US Institute of Navigation’s Weems Award in 1998.