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	+ Home Search Aviation Systems		2013 Presidential Rank and NASA Honor Awards November 13, 2013 The honorees received their awards at a special ceremony on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013 at Ames Research Center. Joseph L. Rios received an Early Career Achievement Medal “for innovative contributions to improve the efficiency and safety of the United States National Airspace System.” Steven D. Beard received an Exceptional Achievement Medal “for the successful design and implementation of an innovative experiment to assess and optimize the cueing systems on the Vertical Motion Simulator.” Deborah Ballinger received an Exceptional Service Medal “for sustained excellence in leading and supporting human-in-the-loop Air Traffic Management simulations enabling NASA to meet critical research milestones.” Bimal L. Aponso received an Outstanding Leadership Medal “for outstanding technical and managerial leadership of several of the Agency's most advanced and critical flight and air traffic simulation facilities.” The Air Traffic Management Technology Demonstration-1 Team received a group achievement award “for making groundbreaking technical progress towards the field demonstration with eight large-scale, high-fidelity human-in-the-loop simulations.” The team included representatives from NASA Ames Research Center (Deborah Ballinger, David O. Chin, Fay C. Chinn, Michelle m. Eshow, Ronald D. Johnson, John T. Kaneshige, Alan G. Lee, Sandra Lozito, Daniel G. Mulfinger, Everett A. Palmer, Thomas Prevot, John E. Robinson, Harry N. Swenson, Jane Thipphavong, Kevin E. Witzberger), NASA Langley Research Center (Brian T. Baxley, Stella V. Harrison, Cathy L. Jenkins, William C. Johnson, Patrick S. Kenney, Michael R. Koch, Elliot T. Lewis, Gary W. Lohr, Jennifer L. Murdoch, Cornelius J. O'Connor, Michael T. Palmer, Edward N. Scearce, Colin L. Smith, Kurt A. Swieringa, Sara R. Wilson), Dell Services Federal Government (Richard Jacoby, Vaibhav Kelkar, George Lawton, Thomas Quinonez, Ray Torres, James K. Wong), Flight Research Associates (Matthew Gregory), Human Solutions, Inc. (Jessica Ciotti, Brian Donnelly, Danny Vincent), LITES (David West, Chris Wyatt), National Institute of Aerospace (Clay Hubbs), Perot Systems (Christopher Cabrall), SAIC (David Brown, Diane Carpenter, Joseph Cisek, Eric Gardner, Melody Lin, Jimmy Nguyen, Marty Pethtel, Ghislain Saillant), San Jose State University Foundation (Nancy Bienert, Connie L. Brasil, Todd Callantine, Victoria Dulchinos, Albert Globus, Ashley Gomez, Sarah Hunt, Kimberly Jobe, Michael Kupfer, Lynne Martin, Joey Mercer, Susan Morey, Faisal Omar), Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies Inc. (Shivanjli Sharma), Teams2 (Tom Britton), Unisys (Paul Sugden), University of California, Santa Cruz (Leonard Bagasol, Steven Chan, Liang Chen, Danny Chiu, Michael Downs, Daniel Du, Leland Helmle, Hai Ou-Yang, Terry Smith). The NASA North Texas Research Team received a group achievement award “for over 15 years of outstanding contributions in developing, testing, and transferring advanced air traffic management technologies for the National Airspace System.” The team included representatives from NASA Ames Research Center (Paul F. Borchers, Shawn A. Engelland), Federal Aviation Administration (Kevin Davis, Greg Juro, Sam Pacifico, Danny Vincent), Mosaic ATM Inc. (Richard A. Capps, Kevin Day), University of California, Santa Cruz (Louise Morgan Ruszkowski, Jody Null, Keenan Roach, John D. Sanders). The OBVA Simulator Development Team received a group achievement award “for developing the first flight simulator with eye limiting visual resolution for vision research.” The team included representatives from NASA Ames Research Center (Steven D. Beard, Paul Brown, Steven E. Cowart, Dean P. Giovannetti, Khoa V. Nguyen, Boris M. Rabin, Barbara T. Sweet, Nghia D. Vuong), Perot Systems (John Archdeacon, Nelson Iwai, Kenji Kato, Peter Kuhn, Jason Toy), SAIC (Pete Chaplin, Thomas Crawford, Bosco Diaz, Jeff Diaz, Bruce Felt, Steve Fletcher, Hai Huynh, Phil Jensen, Ron Lehmer, Chris Murphy, Marty Pethtel, Michael Weinstein, Dan Wilkins, Minh Wong), San Jose State Foundation (Peter Zaal), and Delft University of Technology (Koen Brentegem). The SimOpt Experiment Team received a group achievement award “for developing and testing innovative techniques for improving rotorcraft flight simulations.” The team included representatives from NASA Ames Research Center (Bimal L. Aponso, Steven D. Beard, Scott E. Reardon), San Jose State University Foundation (Eric L. Tobias), SAIC (Gordon H. Hardy, Emily K. Lewis). The ATD-1 IM-NOVA Human-in-the-Loop Simulation Team was nominated by NASA Langley Research Center and received a group achievement award “for exceptional conduct of the first ATD-1 integrated Flight Deck-based Interval Management/Ground-based Interval Management human-in-the-loop simulation experiment.” The team included representatives from NASA Ames Research Center (Thomas Prevot, John E. Robinson). + Back to Top
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