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	+ Home Search Aviation Systems		2014 NASA Honor Awards The honorees received their awards at a special ceremony on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014 at Ames Research Center. Nghia D. Vuong received an Early Career Achievement Medal “for significantly enhancing NASA Ames Research Center's Aerospace Simulation Laboratories capabilities in support of NASA's Aeronautics programs.” James R. Murphy received an Exceptional Achievement Medal “for exceptional achievement in development and testing of a distributed simulation infrastructure for NASA's Unmanned Aerial Systems in the National Airspace System Project.” Gordon H. Hardy received an Exceptional Public Service Medal “for 56 years of contributions in making the skies safer for pilots, as both an aerospace engineer and test pilot.” Harry N. Swenson received an Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal “for the development of the scheduling element of the Terminal Sequencing and Scheduling System, a foundational piece of the Air traffic management Technology Demonstration.” The Autonomous Loss-of-Control Cueing Team received a group achievement award “for successfully demonstrating the first predictive autonomous aircraft cueing technology validated for Loss-of-Control prevention.” The team included representatives from NASA Ames Research Center (John G. Amaral, Steven D. Beard, Paul S. Brown, Gregory A. Dorais, Kalmanje S. Krishnakumar, Scott E. Reardon, Donald I. Soloway, Nghia D. Vuong), SGT, Inc. (Jonathan S. Barlow, Khanh V. Trinh), Science Application International Corporation (Estela Buchmann, Diane M. Carptenter, Peter W. Chaplin, Adam N. Crawford, Thomas N. Crawford, Bosco J. Dias, Jeffrey C. Diaz, Bruce C. Felt, Gordon H. Hardy, Hai T. Huynh, Phillip N. Jensen, Emily K. Lewis, John C. Murphy, Cheryl L. Orth, Thomas M. Pethtel, Nicholas, Riccobono, Tuan C. Truong, Minh H. Wong, Darrell L. Wooten), Systems Technology Inc. (David Klyde, Amanda Lampton, P. Chase Schulze), University of California Santa Cruz (Vahram Stepanyan), and a graduate student (Chaitanya Poolla). The Flight Deck-ATC Departure Simulation Team received a group achievement award “for exceptional research in the conduct of the first integrated Flight Deck - ATC human-in-the-loop simulation with the Spot and Runway Departure Advisor tool.” The team included representatives from NASA Ames Research Center (John G. Amaral, Rodrigo S. David, David C. Foyle, Ty Hoang, Yoon C. Jung, Wayne T. Momii, Betty W. Silva), ASRC Research & Technology Solutions (Mark R. Anderson, Lara W. Cheng, Christopher L. Collacott, Steven P. Elkins, David P. Encisco, Marlene L. Hernan, George F. Lawton, Glenn R. Meyer, James R. Miller, Brian D. Spence), Flight Research Associates (Matthew S. Gregory, Nancy J. Haan, Wendy J. Krikorian), San Jose State University Foundation, Inc. (Deborah L. Bakowski, Becky L. Hooey, Cynthia A. Wolter), Science Application International Corporation (Jeff Diaz, Carla D. Ingram, John C. Murphy, Thomas M. Pethtel, Dan Wilkins), and University of California Santa Cruz (Waqar A. Malik, Kenneth A. Ray, Yong Goo Seo). The Precision Departure Release Capability (PDRC) Team received a group achievement award “for the creation and successful transfer of the Precision Departure Release Capability, an advanced air traffic management technology, to the Federal Aviation Administration.” The team included representatives from NASA Ames Research Center (Paul F. Borchers, Shawn A. Engelland, Seth Kurasaki, Mike Madson, Elisban U. Rodriguez), NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Richard A. Capps), American Airlines (Rob Blume, John Molitor), CSC (Anthony Sikora, Edward Walenciak), Federal Aviation Administration (Richard Ditto, Frank Gaither, Rob Hunt, Greg Juro, Brent Logan, Mark McCormick, Sam Pacifico, Susan Passmore, Tom Prevost, John Short, Michael Styer, Anthony K. Zambeck), Mosaic ATM Inc. (Kevin B. Day, Michael D. Garland, Shawn M. Gorman, Michael L. Graham, Matthew S. Kistler, Corissa Robinson), University of California, Santa Cruz (Louise K. Morgan Ruszkowski, Jody R. Null, Keenan D. Roach, John D. Sanders). The Single Pilot Operations (SPO) Experiment Team received a group achievement award “for conducting a first-of-its-kind flight simulation experiment evaluating air-ground coordination tools to facilitate single pilot operations supported by a ground station.” The team included representatives from NASA Ames Research Center (John G. Amaral, Bimal L. Aponso, Karl D. Bilimoria, David O. Chin, Walter W. Johnson, Richard H. Mogford, Kevin J. Monk, Khoa V. Nguyen, Christian J. Plaunt, Robert J. Shively, David E. Smith), ASRC Federal Research and Technology Solutions (George F. Lawton, Jonathan K. Luk, Thomas E. Quinonez, Dominic G. Wong), California State University Long Beach (Gregory B. Arnsdorff, Henri Battiste, Sabrina S. Billinghurst, James Cunningham, Sam A. Curtis, Elyse C. Hallett, Ryan O'Connor, Zachary S. Roberts, Lindsay K. Sturre, Tom Strybel, Kim Vu, Jason Ziccardi), EAP (Rohit Kavukuntla), Mid-Tennessee State University (Cody Evans, Leighton Gasque), Rockwell Collins (Michael P. Matessa), SAIC (Alexander M. Baker, David M. Brown, Diane M. Carpenter, Paul C. Chaplin, William W. Chung, Bosco J. Dias, Jeffrey C. Diaz, Steven L. Fletcher, Eric B. Gardner, Evelyn L. Hull, Ronald D. Lehmer, Jeffrey M. Lipusch, Ding-Jen Liu, Roger L. Overdorf, Ramesh C. Panda, Thomas M. Pethtel, William E. Preston, Ghislain Saillant, Tuan C. Truong, Daniel A. Wilkins, Darrell L. Wooten), San Jose State University (Vernol Battiste, Summer L. Brandt, Quang V. Dao, Karl Jordan, Robert W. Koteskey, Joel B. Lachter, Sarah V. Ligda, Rocio Luna, Joseph T. Ott), and SGT, Inc. (Tristan B. Smith, Elif Kurklu). The UAS Integration in the NAS Full-Mission Sim Team received a group achievement award “for exceptional performance in developing and deploying a high-fidelity, real-time simulation platform for integrating UAS into routine airspace operations.” The team included representatives from NASA Ames Research Center (Kevin J. Monk, Eric R. Mueller, James R. Murphy, Confesor Santiago, Robert J. Shively), ASRC Research & Technology Solutions (Dominic G. Wong), Flight Research Associates (Wayne W. Bridges), San Jose State University Foundation, Inc. (Quang V. Dao, Lisa C. Fern, Robert C. Rorie), Science Application International Corporation (Sabrina S. Billinghurst, David M. Brown, Riva Canton, Jeffery Hernandez, Srboljub Jovic, Jacob R. Pfeiffer), and University of California Santa Cruz (Michael Abramson, Charles M. Walter). The Separation Assurance Team was nominated by NASA Langley Research Center and received a group achievement award “for outstanding research of Separation Assurance concepts to enable the Next Generation of the National Airspace System.” The team included representatives from NASA Ames Research Center (Todd A. Lauderdale, Thomas Prevot). + Back to Top
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