Mr. Martin Pilgram is DLR's principle Member Agency Representative to the CCSDS and has been a CCSDS participant since 1985.  In 2004, Mr. Pilgram moved to the management side of the organization, but prior to that he had been actively involved in the development of Standard Information Access and Interchange Systems and SLE Transfer Services.

In 1979, Mr. Pilgram obtained a Master of Mathematics degree from the University of Kaiserslautern.  He started his career developing software for the MRSE subsystem and performed post mission data analysis for the FSLP (Spacelab) project for DLR – GSOC.  Subsequently, he was involved in various areas of ground infrastructure development for GSOC missions.  Today, Mr. Pilgram is responsible for the implementation of standards and IT-security at GSOC.