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Verma NASA-Korean Aerospace Research Collaboration Team Rapid Aircraft Modeling and Simulation Team UAS Detect and Avoid Team ATD-1 Research and Flight Test Team Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC) “Best of Session” “Performance Evaluation of Conflict-Free Trajectory Taxiing in Airport Ramp Area Using Fast-Time Simulations” by Nikolai Okuniek, Yoon C. Jung, Ingrid Gerdes, Zhifan Zhu, Sergei Gridnev, and Hanbong Lee AIAA 2108 William T. Piper, Sr. General Aviation Systems Graduate Award Brandon Cook 2017 NASA Software of the Year Terminal Sequencing and Spacing (TSAS) for Air Traffic Control Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) Associate Administrator Awards Michelle Eshow - Technology and Innovation ATM R&D Seminar David Thipphavong - Best Paper in Track NASA Honor Awards Shivanjli Sharma - Early Career Achievement Medal Miwa Hayashi - Exceptional Achievement Medal Marcus A. Johnson - Exceptional Achievement Medal Joseph L. Rios - Exceptional Achievement Medal Michelle M. Eshow - Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal Boris M. Rabin - Exceptional Service Medal UAS Traffic Management (UTM) Team - Group Achievement Award 2016 Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) Associate Administrator Awards Joseph Rios - Technology and Innovation Ames Technology Transfer Awards Patent Award: Patent 9,423,799 "Optimum Strategies for Selecting Descent Flight-Path Angles" - Gilbert Wu, Steve Green Patent Application Award: "Method to Estimate Perturbation Level in Scheduled Aircraft Arrival Operations Using Schedule Non-conformance" - Jaewoo Jung, Thomas Kozon Software Release Award: "Control Allocation Technique to Recover from Pilot Induced Oscillations (CAPIO) Through the Estimation and Minimization of Phase Lag Introduced to the System Due to Control Surface Rate Saturation" - Diana Acosta, Steven Beard, Robert Craun, Gordon Hardy, Ilya Kolmanovsky, Michael Leonard, Michael Weinstein, Yildiray Yildiz Software Release Award: "Live, Virtual, Constructive (LVC) Gateway Software" - Jeffery Hernandez, Srboljub, Jovic, James Murphy, Neil Otto Software Release Award: "Spot and Runway Departure Advisor (SARDA)" - Gautam Gupta, Ty Hoang, Yoon Jung, Hanbong Lee, Waqar Malik, Justin Montoya Software Release Award: "Unmanned Aerial System (UTM) Traffic Management Services Software" - Vijayakumar Baskaran, George Lawton, Daniel Mulfinger, Joseph Rios, Irene Skupniewicz Smith, David Smith, Sean Song, Priya Venkatesan, Leo Wang Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC) “Best of Session” and “Best of Track” “NASA UAS Traffic Management National Campaign: Operations across Six UAS Test Sites” by Joseph Rios, Daniel Mulfinger, Jeffrey Homola, and Priya Venkatesan Ames Honor Awards Cynthia J. Freedman, USRA - Contractor Employee Brendan E. Short - Student NASA Honor Awards Scott E. Reardon - Early Career Achievement Medal Confesor Santiago - Exceptional Achievement Medal Kevin E. Witzberger - Exceptional Achievement Medal Operational Integration Assessment (OIA) Team - Group Achievement Award UAV Multicopter Wind Tunnel Test Team - Group Achievement Award UTM Build One Software Team - Group Achievement Award UTM Convention Planning Team - Group Achievement Award 2015 Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) Associate Administrator (AA) Awards Shawn Engelland - Strategic Partnerships for Airspace Technology Demonstration-2 (ATD-2) Easter Wang - Program and Mission Support Jaewoo Jung - High Potentials Ames Technology Transfer Awards Patent Application Award: “Method and System for Air Traffic Rerouting for Airspace Constraint Resolution” - Alexis Clymer, Heinz Erzberger, David McNally, Alexander Morando, Kapil Sheth, Fu-Tai Shih Patent Application Award: “Miles-In-Trail with Passback Restrictions for Use in Air Traffic Management” - Sebastian Gutierrez Nolasco, Kapil Sheth Software Release Awards: “Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) Augmentation for PyMDPToolbox” - Michael Bloem Software Release Award: “Portable Guidance Display (PPGD) and Primary Flight Display (PFD) software” - Gordon Hardy, Darrell Wooten Software Release Award: “Surface Operations Simulator and Scheduler (SOSS)” - Sergei Gridnev, Yoon Jung, Waqar Malik, Robert Windhorst, Zhifan Zhu Patent Award Patent 9,171,473, titled, “Method and system for dynamic automated corrections to weather avoidance routes for aircraft in en route airspace.” for Dynamic Weather Routes (DWR) Ames Honor Awards Chok Fung Lai, UARC - Contractor Employee UAS-NAS Project IT&E Team - Group/Team Fay C. Chinn - Project Management Michelle M. Eshow - Technical Support/Professional AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Award and the National Omicron Delta Kappa John D. Morgan Graduate Scholarship Brandon Cook NASA Honor Awards Karen Tambua-DeGuzman - Exceptional Service Medal Bosco Dias - Exceptional Public Achievement Medal NTX Team - Group Achievement Award SARDA Team - Group Achievement Award DWR Team - Group Achievement Award UAS Traffic Management (UTM) Workshop Team - Group Achievement Award VMS Mechanical Shop Team - Group Achievement Award Inventions and Contributions Board Awards Steven Green, Minghong (Gilbert) Wu - Optimum Strategies for Selecting Descent Flight-Path Angles - Patent Application Award Heinz Erzberger, David McNally, Kapil Sheth - Dynamic Weather Routes Tool - Software Release Award Todd Lauderdale - Probabilistic Conflict Detection for Aircraft Using Actual Trajectory Prediction Errors - Software Release Award Shivanjli Sharma (along with Charles Jorgensen) - Method for Visualization of Analog Signals - Tech Briefs Award Joseph Rios - Parallel Dantzig-Wolfe Decomposition - Tech Brief Award William Preston (along with Gregory Condon, John Freitas, and Rebecca Green) - Sector 33 App - Tech Briefs Award Russell Paielli - Trajectory Specification for High-Capacity Air Traffic Control - Tech Brief Award 2014 NASA Commercial Invention of the Year Direct-To - Danny Chiu, Heinz Erzberger, David McNally, Philippe A. Stassart NASA Exceptional Space Act Awards Direct-To - Danny Chiu, Heinz Erzberger, David McNally, Philippe A. Stassart Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) Associate Administrator (AA) Awards Dr. Marcus Johnson - High Potentials (Individual) NASA's North Texas Research Station (NTX) Team, Shawn Engelland Team Lead - Program and Mission Support Honorable Mention (Group) Ames Contractor Council Awards Girish Chachad Julien Petersen Dan Wilkins NASA Honor Awards Nghia D. Vuong - Early Career Achievement Medal James R. Murphy - Exceptional Achievement Medal Gordon H. Hardy - Exceptional Public Service Medal Harry N. Swenson - Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal Autonomous Loss-of-Control Cueing Team - Group Achievement Award Flight Deck-ATC Departure Simulation Team Precision Departure Release Capability (PDRC) Team - Group Achievement Award Single Pilot Operations (SPO) Experiment Team - Group Achievement Award UAS Integration in the NAS Full-Mission Sim Team - Group Achievement Award Separation Assurance Team - Group Achievement Award 33nd Digital Avionics Systems Conference Best Paper "Optimizing Integrated Terminal Airspace Operations Under Uncertainty" by Christabelle Bosson, Min Xue, and Shannon Zelinski - Best Paper across Air Traffic Management track "Architecture and Capabilities of a Data Warehouse for ATM Research" by Michelle Eshow, Max Lui, and Shubha Ranjan - Best Paper in Collaborative Decision Making (CDM)/System Wide Information Management (SWIM) session Ames Honor Awards Dave McNally - Commercialization/Technology Transfer Gordon H. Hardy, SAIC - Contractor Employee Hai T. Huynh, SAIC - Contractor Employee AIAA Intelligent Systems Award Dr. Heinz Erzberger 2013 NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) Associate Administrator Awards Mirna Johnson - High Potentials Shawn Engelland - Technology and Innovation NASA Ames Tech Transfer Awards Patent Application Award: Method and System for Dynamic Automated Corrections to Weather Avoidance Routes for Aircraft in En Route Airspace: Heinz Erzberger (AF), Kapil Sheth (AFO), and B.McNally (AFT) Software Release Award: Stochastic Terminal Area Scheduling Simulation (STASS): Heinz Erzberger (AF) Leonard Bagasol (AF), Daniel Mulfinger (AFH), Jane Thipphavong (AFH), Danny Chiu (AFH), Larry Meyn (AV) Software Release Award: Terminal Sequencing and Scheduling Software for Air Traffic Control: John Robinson (AF), Harry Swenson (AFH), Xiao Liang Chen (AFS) NASA Tech Brief Award: Future ATM (Air Traffic Management) Concepts Evaluation Tool (FACET): Banavar Sridhar (AF), Shon Grabbe (AFO), Kapil Sheth (AFO), Karl Bilimoria (AFT), Gano Broto Chatterji (AFT) National Aeronautic Association's Dr. Mervin K. Strickler Award for Aerospace Education Leadership Smart Skies Education Project Team 32nd Digital Avionics Systems Conference Best Paper in Session “Evaluation of the Terminal Sequencing and Spacing System for Performance-Based Navigation Arrivals,” by Jane Thipphavong, Jaewoo Jung, Harry Swenson (NASA Ames), along with co-authors Lynne Martin (San Jose State University Foundation) and Melody Lin and Jimmy Nguyen (Optimal Synthesis, Inc.) - Arrival Management Session Journal of Air Traffic Control Technical Writing Award Swenson, H.N., Robinson, J.E., and Winter, S., "NASA's ATM Technology Demonstration-1: Moving NextGen Arrival Concepts from the Laboratory to the Operational NAS," Journal of Air Traffic Control, Summer 2013, Volume 55, No. 2, pp. 27-37. Ames Honor Awards Nghia D. Vuong - Engineer Young S. Park - Student NASA Honor Awards Joseph L. Rios - Early Career Achievement Medal Steven D. Beard - Exceptional Achievement Medal Deborah Ballinger - Exceptional Service Medal Bimal L. Aponso - Outstanding Leadership Medal Air Traffic Management Technology Demonstration-1 - Group/Team NASA North Texas Research Station (NTX) - Group/Team OBVA Simulator Development Team - Group/Team SimOpt Experiment Team - Group/Team ATD-1 IM-NOVA Human-in-the-Loop Simulation Team 69th American Helicopter Society Annual Forum Best Paper “Simulation System Fidelity Assessment at the Vertical Motion Simulator” - Modeling and Simulation Track 10th USA/Europe ATM R&D Seminar (ATM2013) Best Paper Awards Sandra Lozito (Human Factors Track and the Kevin Corker Best Overall Paper at the Conference, “An Investigation of Flight Deck Data Link in the Terminal Area”) Laurel Stell (Trajectory and Queue Management Track, “Regression Analysis of Top-of-Descent Location for Idle-Thrust Descents”) William Chan and Shon Grabbe (Weather in ATM Track, “An Operational Evaluation of the Ground Delay Program Parameters Selection Model (GPSM)”) Institution of Mechanical Engineers' Aerospace Division Kenneth Harris James Prize “Automated conflict resolution, arrival management, and weather avoidance for air traffic management” by Heinz Erzberger, Todd Lauderdale, and Yung-Cheng Chu, published in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G Journal of Aerospace Engineering, August 2012. Ames Contractor Council Awards Dr. Anastasios Nikoleris Dynamic Weather Routing Team - Jinn-Hwei Cheng, Saugata Guha, Chu Han Lee, Richard G. Looney, Patrick D. O'Neal, Julien C. Petersen, Scott Sahlman, John P. Walker, Joseph C. Walton, Lee Helmle, Susan Hinton, Fu-Tai Shih Length of Service Awards, 20+ years Thomas Kozon (26) Robie Remple (33) Joseph Walton (22) Aviation Week Magazine's Laureate Award for Aeronautics and Propulsion Speed Agile Concept Demonstrator (SACD) program University of Connecticut School of Engineering's Academy of Engineers Dr. Banavar Sridhar BEYA STEM Global Competitiveness Conference Dr. Ousmane Diallo and Aisha Bowe 2012 FAA Excellence in Aviation Research Three-Dimensional Path Arrival Management (3D-PAM) Team AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC) “Best Paper in Session” “Benefits of Precision Scheduling and Spacing for Arrival Operations” by Shannon Zelinski Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) Associate Administrator (AA) Awards Joshua Holladay - High Potentials (Individual award) Controller Managed Spacing (CMS)/Air traffic management Technology Demonstration - 1 (ATD-1) Team - Honorable Mention for Technology and Innovation (Group) Dr. Parimal Kopardekar (Concepts and Technology Development Project Manager) - Honorable Mention for Leadership and Excellence (Individual) Ames Honor Awards Girish H. Chachad, SAIC - Contractor Employee Liang Chen, UARC - Contractor Employee Yung-Cheng Chu, Aerospace Computing, Inc. - Contractor Employee Aisha R. Bowe - Engineer Spot and Runway Departure Advisor Simulation Team NASA Ames Aeronautics Technical Excellence in Publications Awards “Performance Evaluation of a Surface Management Tool for Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport,” by Yoon C. Jung, Ty Hoang, Justin V. Montoya, NASA Ames Research Center; Gautam Gupta, Waqar Malik, Leonard Tobias, University of California Santa Cruz; and Hua Wang, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, San Jose State University NASA Honor Awards Aisha R. Bowe - Equal Employment Opportunity Medal Michelle M. Eshow - Exceptional Achievement Medal Shawn A. Engelland - Exceptional Service Medal Yoon C. Jung - Outstanding Leadership Medal Rudy A. Aquilina* - Outstanding Leadership Medal Ronald D. Lehmer - Outstanding Public Leadership Medal Boeing 737-800W Aircraft Model Integration Team - Group/Team CAPIO Simulation Team - Group/Team Three-Dimensional Path Arrival Management (3D-PAM) - Group/Team * Honorary Division staff member National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) Aerospace Systems Conference 2012 Dr. Ousmane Diallo - 21st Century Trailblazers in Aerospace Award in the category of Aerodynamics & Aviation Aisha Bowe - 21st Century Trailblazers in Aerospace Award in the category of Aerodynamics & Aviation Aisha Bowe - Outstanding Technical Contribution - Outstanding Paper 2011 Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) Associate Administrator (AA) Awards Todd Farley - Leadership and Management Excellence NASA@Work Challenge Nghia Vuong - Lunar Regolith Tolerant Valve Solution Ames Contractor Council Awards Yung-Cheng Chu (AFO), Aerospace Computing Inc. Matt Ma (AF), Intrinsyx Technologies Corporation Gaurav Nagle (AFT), Saab-Sensis Corporation Lynn Tran (AF), Al-Razaq Computing Services CTAS Trajectory Synthesizer Software Team - Gilbert Wu, Steven Chan, and Michael Abramson (UARC) AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC) “Best Paper in Session” “Effects of Scheduling and Spacing Tools on Controller's Performance and Perceptions of their Workload” by Lynne Martin, Harry Swenson, Alex Sadovsky, Jane Thipphavong, Liang Chen and Anthoy Seo Ames Honor Awards Chok Fung Lai, UARC - Contractor Employee Ronald D. Lehmer, SAIC - Contractor Employee Michael W. Leonard, SAIC - Contractor Employee Shon R. Grabbe - Engineer ACFS Simulation Model Upgrade Team - Group/Team Operational Based Vision Assessment Team - Group/Team Deborah S. Ballinger - Project Management NASA Ames Aeronautics Technical Excellence in Publications Awards Robinson, III, J. E., and Kamgarpour, M., "Benefits of Continuous Descent Operations in High-Density Terminal Airspace Under Scheduling Constraints," 10th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference, Fort Worth, TX, 13-15 Sep. 2010. NASA Honor Awards Michael J. Bloem - Equal Employment Opportunity Medal Katharine K. Lee - Exceptional Service Medal Thomas J. Davis - Outstanding Leadership Medal Girish H. Chachad - Certificate of Appreciation Ames First-Ever Tweetup Team Ames STS Flight Operations Program Team Emergency Landing Planner (ELP) Team - Group Achievement LCTR Maneuver Abort Simulation Team Terminal Area Precision Scheduling System (TAPSS) Team - Group Achievement VMS 30th Anniversary Commemoration Team - Group Achievement 9th USA/Europe ATM R&D Seminar (ATM2011) Best Paper in “Airport” Track Jung, Y., Hoang, T., Montoya, J., Gupta, G., Malik, W., Tobias, L., and Wang, H., "Performance Evaluation of a Surface Traffic Management Tool for Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport," 9th USA/Europe ATM R&D Seminar (ATM2011), Berlin, Germany, 14-17 June 2011. U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame Karol “Bo” Bobko Region III AIAA Student Conference Charles Schultz (Summer intern) - Second place in the Undergraduate Technical Paper category + Back to Top 2010 FAA Excellence in Aviation Research Award Future ATM Concepts Evaluation Tool (FACET) NASA Government Invention of the Year Award Future ATM Concepts Evaluation Tool (FACET) Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) Associate Administrator (AA) Awards John Robinson (AFH) - Technology and Innovation (individual) SimLabs (AFS) - Program and Mission Support (group) Maryam Kamgarpour (AFH intern) - High Potential (individual) Patent Awards Russell Paielli for “Trajectory Specification for High-Capacity Air Traffic Control” Future ATM Concepts Evaluation Tool (FACET) Development Team (Dr. Banavar Sridhar, Dr. Kapil Sheth, Dr. Gano Chatterji, Dr. Karl Bilimoria, and Dr. Shon Grabbe) for “Air Traffic Management Evaluation Tool” Ames Contractor Council Excellence Awards Mohamad Refai TAPPR/RAHS Simulation Integration Team Separation Assurance TBAS HITL Simulation Team National Academy of Engineering Membership Heinz Erzberger AIAA de Florez Award for Flight Simulation Rodger A. Mueller AIAA Sustained Service Award Todd Farley Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC) “Best of Session” Awards “Fuel Efficient Strategies for Reducing Contrail Formations in United States Airspace,” Banavar Sridhar, Neil Y. Chen, and Hok K. Ng “A Pairing Algorithm for Landing Aircraft to Closely Spaced Parallel Runways,” Amir H. Farrahi, Savita A. Verma NASA Aeronautics Excellence in Publications Awards "Dynamic Coupling and Control Response Effects on Spacecraft Handling Qualities during Docking," Mueller, E., Bilimoria, K.D., and Frost, C., Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 46, No. 6, November-December 2009, pp. 1288–1297. “Evaluation of Triple Closely Spaced Parallel Runway Procedures for Off-nominal Cases,” Savita Verma, Sandy Lozito, Deborah Ballinger, Thomas Kozon, Ramesh Panda, Diane Carpenter, Darrell Wooten, Gordon Hardy, and Herb Resnick, Eighth USA/Europe Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar (ATM2009), Napa, CA, 29 June-2 July 2009 "Massively Parallel Dantzig-Wolfe Decomposition Applied to Traffic Flow Scheduling," Rios, J. and Ross, K., AIAA-2009-6009, AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Chicago, IL, 10-13 Aug. 2009. NASA Honor Awards Orion Reentry Handling Qualities Simulation Team - Group Achievement LAX North Airfield Safety Study Simulation Team - Group Achievement VMS Space Shuttle Visual Database Development Team - Group Achievement Dave McNally - Outstanding Leadership Medal John Robinson - Exceptional Achievement Medal Ames Honor Awards Airport Surface Advisory Simulation Team - Group Achievement Bassam Musaffar - Contractor Employee Ames Safety Awards Debbie Murchison Ginny Rochette + Back to Top 2009 AIAA Aerospace Software Engineering Award Future Air Traffic Management Concepts Evaluation Tool (FACET) Software Development Team FAA Excellence in Aviation Research Award Traffic Management Advisor (TMA) Team USA/Europe Air Traffic Management Seminar “Best Paper in Track” Awards “Evaluation of Triple Closely Spaced Parallel Runway Procedures for Off-nominal Cases,” Savita Verma, Sandy Lozito, Deborah Ballinger, Thomas Kozon, Ramesh Panda, Diane Carpenter, Darrell Wooten, Gordon Hardy, and Herb Resnick Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC) “Best of Session” “Analysis of Divergences From Area Navigation Departure Routes at DFW Airport,” Paul Borchers and Kevin Day “Flight Management System Prediction and Execution of Idle-Thrust Descents,” Laurel Stell “Simplified Dynamic Density Based Capacity Estimation,” Chok Fung Lai and Shannon Zelinski NASA Aeronautics Technical Excellence in Publications “Combining Airspace Sectors for the Efficient Use of Air Traffic Control Resources,” Michael Bloem and Parimal Kopardekar, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) Conference and Exhibit, Honolulu, HI, 18-21 Aug. 2008 NASA Honor Awards The Very Closely Spaced Parallel Runway Team - Group Achievement William N. Chan - Outstanding Leadership Medal Richard A. Coppenbarger - Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal Boris M. Rabin - Exceptional Achievement Medal Jeffery A. Schroeder - Outstanding Leadership Medal Robert D. Windhorst - Equal Employment Opportunity Medal Shannon J. Zelinski - Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal Ames Honor Awards Sandy C. Lozito - Mentor Rod David - Technical Support Michael Bloem - Engineer + Back to Top 2008 Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC) “Best of Session” Awards “Procedures for Off-Nominal Cases: Very Closely Spaced Parallel Runway Operations” in the CNS Research and Technology Development session, Savita Verma, Sandy Lozito, Thomas Kozon, Deborah Ballinger, and Herbert Resnick “Analysis of an Optimal Sector Design Method” in the Airspace Design session, Michael Drew “A New Modeling Capability for Airport Surface Traffic Analysis” in the Arrival/Departure Management session, Rob Fong and Michael Downs NASA Aeronautics Excellence in Publications Awards “Field Evaluation of the Tailored Arrivals Concept for Datalink-Enabled Continuous Descent Approach,” Rich Coppenbarger, Rob Mead, and Douglas Sweet, AIAA-2007-7778, AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration and Operations Conference (ATIO), Belfast, Northern Ireland, 18-20 Sep. 2007 “Fast-Time Simulation Evaluation of a Conflict Resolution Algorithm Under High Air Traffic Demand,” Todd Farley and Heinz Erzberger, 7th USA/Europe ATM 2007 R&D Seminar, Barcelona, Spain, 2-5 July 2007 NASA Honor Awards Lunar Lander Handling Qualities Simulation Team - Group Achievement Dean Giovannetti - Exceptional Service Medal Tom Alderete - Exceptional Achievement Medal Ames Honor Awards En Route Descent Advisor (EDA) and Tailored Arrivals Research Team - Group Achievement Michael Kupfer - Contractor Employee Rodger A. Mueller - Best First Paper Boris Rabin - Technical Support + Back to Top 2007 AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Forum Best Paper “Field Evaluation of the Tailored Arrivals Concept for Datalink-Enabled Continuous Descent Approach,” Rich Coppenbarger, Rob Mead, and Douglas Sweet NASA Honor Awards Todd Farley - Exceptional Achievement Medal Ames Honor Awards NASA FutureFlight Central IVAAAN Project Team - Group Achievement Lunar Lander Handling Qualities Simulation Team - Group Achievement Diane M. Carpenter - Contractor Employee Kathleen P. Starmer - Contractor Employee Robert K. Fong - Project Manager + Back to Top 2006 NASA Software of the Year Future ATM Concepts Evaluation Tool (FACET) AIAA Best Paper for Air Transportation Systems and Operations “Multi-Center Traffic Management Advisor: Operational Test Results,” Todd Farley, Steven Landry, Ty Hoang, Monicarol Nickelson, Kerry Levin, Dennis Rowe, and Jerry Welch, AIAA-2005-7300, Proceedings of the 5th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference, Arlington, VA, 26-28 Sep. 2005 NASA Honor Awards FutureFlight Central COURSE Project Team - Group Achievement System Level Integrated Concept (SLIC) Development Team - Group Achievement Steven D. Beard - Exceptional Achievement Medal Thomas J. Davis - Exceptional Service Medal Russell A. Paielli - Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal Ames Honor Awards Future ATM Concepts Evaluation Tool (FACET) Team - Commercialization/Tech Transfer Award Vertical Motion Simulator JSF Team - Group Team Eric R. Mueller - Community Service/Volunteer Michael D. Madson - Project Manager Ames Safety Awards Wardell Lovett + Back to Top 2005 Turning Goals Into Reality (TGIR) Award Multi-Center Traffic Management Advisor (McTMA) Development and Test Team - Increase Capacity and Mobility Objective Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished Senior Professional Heinz Erzberger AIAA Sustained Service Award Karl Bilimoria AIAA Best Paper “Improved Conflict Detection for Reducing Operational Errors in Air Traffic Control,” Russell Paielli and Heinz Erzberger, AIAA-2004-6392, AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Forum, Chicago, IL, Sep. 2004 NASA Honor Awards Advanced Air Transportation Technologies (AATT) Project Team - Group Achievement Joint Ames/Langley Distributed Air/Ground-Traffic Management Simulation Team - Group Achievement Multi-Center Traffic Management Advisor (McTMA) Development and Test Team - Group Achievement Surface Management System (SMS) Development Team - Group Achievement Banavar Sridhar - Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal Ames Honor Awards Airspace Concept Evaluation System (ACES) Team - Group Achievement System Evaluation and Assessment (SEA) Data Analysis Team - Group Achievement Future ATM Concepts Evaluation Tool (FACET) - Commercialization/Tech Transfer Award Shannon J. Zelinski - Best First Paper at Ames + Back to Top 2004 Turning Goals Into Reality (TGIR) Surface Management System (SMS) Development Team - Increase Capacity and Mobility Objective IEEE Control Systems Technology Award Banavar Sridhar AIAA Reed Aeronautical Award Heinz Erzberger NASA Honor Awards FutureFlight Central Team - Group Achievement Virtual Airspace Simulation Technologies Real-Time (VAST-RT) Development Team - Group Achievement Airspace Concept Evaluation System (ACES) Development Group - Group Achievement Dallas G. Denery - Outstanding Leadership Medal Harry N. Swenson - Outstanding Leadership Medal Ames Honor Awards Joint Ames/Langley Distributed Air/Ground Traffic Management (DAG-TM) Simulation Team - Group Achievement Michelle M. Eshow - Supervisor/Manager + Back to Top 2003 NASA Honor Awards Karl D. Bilimoria - Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal Ames Honor Awards Steven D. Beard - Technology Development Girish H. Chachad - Contractor Employee Rodger A. Mueller - Engineer Banavar Sridhar - Supervisor/Manager + Back to Top 2002 Turning Goals Into Reality (TGIR) Award Direct-To ATM Advisory Tool Demonstration Team - Increase Capacity Objective NASA Space Act Board Award Direct-To Development Team AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference Outstanding Paper McFarland, R., "Adjustable Limiting Algorithms for Robust Motion" AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Montreal, Canada, Aug. 2001. NASA Software Release Award Future ATM Concepts Evaluation Tool (FACET) NASA Honor Awards FutureFlight Central Team - Group Achievement Dallas G. Denery - Exceptional Achievement Medal Harry N. Swenson - Exceptional Service Medal Ames Honor Awards En Route Data Exchange (EDX) Team - Group Achievement Traffic Flow Automation System (TFAS) Team - Group Achievement Vertical Motion Simulator (VMS) Digital Model Control Unit (MCU) Development and Installation Team - Group Achievement + Back to Top 2001 Turning Goals Into Reality (TGIR) Award Future ATM Concepts Evaluation Tool (FACET) Team - Increase Capacity Objective AIAA De Florez Award for Modeling and Simulation Richard E. McFarland American Society of Mechanical Engineers Holley Medal Heinz Erzberger Ames Honor Awards Shawn A. Engelland - Engineer + Back to Top 2000 Turning Goals Into Reality (TGIR) Award Collaborative Arrival Planning (CAP) Research Team - Aviation System Throughput Objective Popular Science Magazine's “Best of What's New” Award NASA FutureFlight Central - Aviation and Space category NASA Honor Awards Steven M. Green - Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal Ames Honor Awards Distributed Air/Ground-Traffic Management (DAG-TM) Planning Team - Group Achievement FutureFlight Central Team - Group Achievement Wardell Lovett - Mentor Mathias Ma - Contractor Employee Harry N. Swenson - Supervisor/Manager + Back to Top 1999 Ames Honor Awards Dallas G. Denery - Mentor Farid B. Haddad - Contractor Employee + Back to Top 1998 NASA Software of the Year Center/TRACON Automation System (CTAS) Turning Goals Into Reality (TGIR) Award Center/TRACON Automation System (CTAS) Team - Administrator's Award NASA Honor Awards Michelle Eshow - Exceptional Service Medal Leonard Tobias - Exceptional Service Medal Ames Honor Awards Sandy C. Lozito - Mentor Ginny Rochette - Secretary/Clerical + Back to Top 1997 AIAA Dryden Lectureship in Research Award Heinz Erzberger - Automation for Air Traffic Control: The Rise of a New Discipline NASA Honor Awards Center/TRACON Automation System (CTAS) Team - Group Achievement Thomas J. Davis - Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal Ames Honor Awards Traffic Management Advisor (TMA) Development and Test Team - Group Achievement Harry N. Swenson - Engineer + Back to Top 1996 American Helicopter Society 52nd Annual Forum Best Paper “Results from the NASA Automated Nap-of-the-Earth Program,” Richard E. Zelenka, Phillip N. Smith, Richard A. Coppenbarger, Chima E. Njaka, and Banavar Sridhar Ames Honor Awards Final Approach Spacing Tool (FAST) Team - Group Achievement + Back to Top 1995 NASA Honor Awards Center/TRACON Automation System (CTAS) Team - Group Achievement Banavar Sridhar - Exceptional Service Medal + Back to Top 1994 Barry Carlton Award for Outstanding Paper in the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems “Electro-Optical Navigation for Aircraft,” P.K. A. Menon, Gano B. Chatterji, and Banavar Sridhar + Back to Top 1993 Ames Honor Awards Sandy Lozito - Contractor Employee 1991 AIAA Bay Area Chapter Engineer of the Year Banavar Sridhar - Information Systems category NASA Honor Awards Ralph E. Bach Jr. - Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal + Back to Top 1989 NASA Honor Awards Dallas G. Denery - Exceptional Service Medal + Back to Top 1988 NASA Honor Awards Air Traffic Control Automation Research Team - Group Achievement Heinz Erzberger - Outstanding Leadership Medal + Back to Top 1986 AIAA Mechanics and Control of Flight Award Heinz Erzberger + Back to Top
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