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	+ Home Search Aviation Systems		2020 Presidential Rank & NASA Honor Awards The virtual 2020 Presidential Rank and NASA Honor Awards Ceremony for Ames Research Center was held in December. The recording and program booklet are now available. Ames Research Center Director, Dr. Eugene Tu, opened the ceremony and Dr. James Green, NASA's Chief Scientist, was the keynote speaker. Lynette Forsman, the Ames Incentive Awards Program Manager presented the 2020 NASA Honor Awards to 85 employees who have been selected for individual awards, and to 29 groups which have been selected for the NASA Group Achievement Award. The names of the honorees in the Aviation Systems Division are listed below. Spencer Monheim - Early Career Achievement Medal For outstanding Leadership and Technical Contributions to Airspace Technology Demonstration 2 (ATD-2) Human-In-The-Loop (HITL) Experiments and ATM-X/UAM project. Katharine Lee - Equal Employment Opportunity Medal For being a passionate and dedicated leader and role model for diversity, inclusion, and tolerance at NASA Ames Research Center. Gilbert Wu - Exceptional Achievement Medal For outstanding technical leadership in development of minimum operational performance standards that impact the global aviation community for UAS detect and avoid systems. Todd Lauderdale - Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal For serial innovation resulting in a set of airspace systems technologies and simulation capabilities now regarded as essential to five aeronautics research mission successes. Mohamad Refai - Exceptional Public Achievement Medal For exceptional contributions to the UAS community through high-quality software development, innovative research, and leadership in the formation of new technical standards. UTM Technical Capability Level 4 (TCL-4) Team - Group Achievement Award For the successful demonstration of collaborative airspace management by defining a new era in airspace management and enabled the new drone industry. Yasmin Arbab Arwa S. Aweiss Sweewarman Balachandran Madhavi Latha Balijepalle Vijayakumar Baskaran Tiffany N. Blake Stefan Blandin Abhay R. Borade David F. Bradley Andrew R. Carlsen Jesse V. Carpenter Charlene A. Cayabyab Michele Cencetti Anjan Chakrabarty Lauren E. Claudatos Toby Comeaux Maria C. Consiglio Brandon M. Cook Nicholas J. Craven Minh B. Do Brendan J. Duffy Dat V. Duong Rachelle L. Ennis Alexander V. Fedin Cynthia A. Gabets Louis J. Glaab Madison T. Goodyear Melinda F. Gratteau Maurice L. Gray Caterina M. Grossi Vimmy Gujral David A. Hare Dominic E. Hart Wendy L. Holforty Jeffrey R. Homola Corey A. Ippolito Abraham K. Ishihara Richard H. Jacoby Kimberly K. Jobe Marcus A. Johnson Ronald D. Johnson Jaewoo Jung Sheryl M. Jurcak Kenji H. Kato Evan T. Kawamura George F. Lawton Qiang Li Daniel L. Liddell Justin D. Lisee Mathias Ma Lakshminarasimha Madhavrao Mariah L. Manzano Lynne H. Martin David A. Maurantonio Robert G. McSwain Joey S. Mercer Hemil C. Modi William A. Moede Nicole Mok David P. Montes Andrew J. Moore Stephanie Morse Daniel G. Mulfinger Cesar A. Munoz Tung D. Nguyen David D. North Faisal G. Omar Andrew L. Peters Bryan J. Petty Cesar V. Ramirez Isaias Reyes Joseph L. Rios Shawn Roller Nicholas H. Rymer Fu-Tai Shih Joseph P. Silva Kyle M. Smalling David R. Smith Irene S. Smith Mark E. Snycerski Randolph A. Strauss Raymond A. Torres Edgar O. Torres Matos Terence L. Tyson Priya Venkatesan Punam Verma Darryl E. Waller Sherry Wei Min Xu VMS Lunar Lander Development Team - Group Achievement Award For the outstanding design, development, and construction of the Vertical Motion Simulator Lunar Lander Demonstration. John G. Amaral Bonnie J. Andro-Avila Bimal L. Aponso Sumedha Barna Steven D. Beard Karl D. Bilimoria Karol J. Bobko Paul S. Brown Girish H. Chachad Peter W. Chaplin William W. Chung Thomas N. Crawford Bruce C. Felt Phillip N. Jensen Emily K. Lewis Tracy Miller John C. Murphy Khoa V. Nguyen Stephen J. Norris Bernardo G. Quevedo Adam T. Sorci Patrick J. Thompson Duc Tran Tuan C. Truong Daniel A. Wilkins Minh H. Wong Urban Air Mobility Simulation Development Team - Group Achievement Award For outstanding construction and execution of a unique end-to-end simulation capability, providing a powerful test environment, paving the way for Urban Air Mobility research. John G. Amaral Yasmin Arbab John L. Archdeacon Madhavi Latha Balijepalle Steven D. Beard Estela H. Buchmann Michele Cencetti Peter W. Chaplin William W. Chung Lauren E. Claudatos Thomas N. Crawford Rohit V. Deshmukh Bosco J. Dias Michael S. Feary Bruce C. Felt Robert Fong Susie Go Madison T. Goodyear Franklin X. Gu Jeffery Hernandez Duke Q. Ho Jeffrey R. Homola Carla D. Ingram Nelson H. Iwai Phillip N. Jensen Srboljub Jovic John T. Kaneshige Kenji H. Kato Elif Kurklu Thomas J. Lombaerts Aaron D. Lynch Carlos Malpica Julie M. Matsuda John E. Melton David P. Montes John C. Murphy Khoa V. Nguyen Stephen J. Norris Faisal G. Omar Ramesh C. Panda Al Paris Thomas M. Pethtel Boris M. Rabin Nicholas S. Riccobono Marc A. Shaw-Lecerf Mark E. Snycerski Adam T. Sorci Patrick J. Thompson Duc Tran Tuan C. Truong John A. Walker + Back to Top
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