A retired member of the Senior Executive Service, National Science Foundation (NSF), where his experiences included managerial, budget and science policy/planning responsibilities for hundreds of millions of dollars of physics, astronomy, atmospheric sciences, earth sciences, oceanography, Arctic and Antarctic research and human resources development. He served NSF as Acting Assistant Director, Deputy Assistant Director, Executive Assistant and Acting Program Manager. Dr. Bridgewater's experience includes being a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon, and the developer of many special projects supporting minority participation in science, engineering and mathematics, including: Former member of the Advisory Board of the Ana G. Mendéz Educational Foundation, Jackson State University and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Science Consortium; Involved in development and management of Research Careers for Minority Scholars, Alliance for Minority Participation, Model Institutions for Excellence (MIE), and Collaboratives to Integrate Research and Education (CIRE); Involved in developing Together We Can Make It Work: An Action Plan to Provide Quality Education for Minorities in Mathematics, Science and Engineering; and Recipient of NSF grant to prepare Tribal Colleges and Universities to submit Major Research Instrumention proposals.