William R. Pickett is a Senior Hardware Engineer and Antenna Range Master at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1969–retired 2011). His specialty is spacecraft antenna systems starting with Mariner 8, Viking, Voyager, Galileo, GRACE, GRAIL, the Mars rovers, and the Mars Science Laboratory spacecrafts among others and various classified programs. Before 1969, he worked on the Apollo Program command and service module antenna systems with North American Aviation/Rockwell.

William contributed a chapter to Parallels and Convergences: Mormon Thought and Engineering Vision.