Pioneer Award (Aviation)

The Pioneer Award is selected by the Professional Group on Aeronautical and Navigational Electronics and has been given out annually since 1949. The Pioneer Award is awarded to an individual or team for significant contributions of interest to the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society. To ensure proper historical perspective, the award is given for contributions that have been made at least twenty years prior to the award year.[1]

Recipients

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Year Recipient(s) Contribution
1949 Thomas C. Rives Leadership in the development of aircraft electronics
1950 L. M. Clements Electronic Countermeasures
1951 Harold M. McClelland “Highways in the Sky”–The forerunner of today's ATC
1952 A. Hoyt Taylor Use of radio waves for detection of ship traffic (circa 1922)
1953 David G. C. Luck Radio direction-finding for aircraft and the omnidirectional range
1954 Francis W. Dunmore Replacement of radio batteries by AC; radio aids to marine and air navigation; blind landing system (today’s ILS)
1955 Lewis M. Hull Wave propagation to/from aircraft; the Kolster localizer system
1956 Alfred W. Marriner & Wallace G. Smith Development facilities for aircraft communications, navigation and traffic control including AACS
1956 Harry Diamond (P) Radio aids to navigation; radio range; direction finding; instrumented low approach
1956 Wayne G. Eaton (P) Ground and airborne radio equipment
1956 John W. Greig (P) Automatic phase comparison direction finding
1956 Thorp Hiscock (P) Two-way voice radio for aircraft
1956 Frederick A. Kolster (P) Marine radio direction finding; radio compass
1956 William H. Murphy (P) Airborne antennas and radio range systems
1956 John Stone (P) Radio direction finding (circa 1900)
1957 Lawrence A. Hyland Direction finding, altimetry, ignition shielding, and radar
1957 Alessandro Artom (P) Directional properties of radio transmission and reception (circa 1905)
1958 Albert F. Hegenberger & Clayton C. Shangraw Four-course radio range beacon
1958 Malcolm P. Hanson (P) Arctic, Antarctic and transatlantic flight radio communication
1959 Henri G. Busignies & Francis L. Moseley Aircraft automatic radio direction finding
1960 John H. Dellinger Aircraft approach and landing electronics
1960 Wilbur L. Webb (P) Visual “L—R” radio compass
1961 John Alvin Pierce Radio navigation systems: Loran, Skywave, RaduX, Omega
1962 Donald M. Stuart VHF omni-range (VOR)
1963 Luis W. Alvarez Aircraft approach and landing radar
1964 Ernst Ludwig Kramar Sonne (Consol) and other instrument landing systems (ILS)
1965 Andrew Alford VOR & ILS navigation antennas; the Alford Loop
1966 Robert J. Dippy Hyperbolic radio navigation (GEE and LORAN)
1966 Otto Scheller (P) The radio range (circa 1907)
1967 Lloyd Espenschied & Russell C. Newhouse Frequency modulated radio altimeters
1968 William J. Tull Aircraft ground speed using Doppler
1969 William J. O’Brien & Harvey F. Schwarz DECCA (hyperbolic) navigation
1970 Paul G. Hansel Doppler VOR
1971 Robert L. Frank & Winslow Palmer LORAN-C navigation
1972 Myron H. Nichols Time-division multiplex telemetry
1973 Frederic Calland Williams Secondary radar beacon design
1973 Bertram Vivian Bowden Secondary radar system development
1973 Kenneth Ernest Harris (P) Air traffic control secondary radar
1974 George B. Litchford & Joseph Lyman Precision omnidirectional microwave beacons
1975 Ivan A. Getting Microwave radar
1976 Spencer Kellogg II Zero reader flight display
1977 Robert M. Page Monostatic radar
1978 Charles S. Draper Inertial technology
1979 Peter R. Murray Pilotless aircraft
1980 Sven H. Dodington Distance measuring equipment
1981 Louis A. deRosa (P), Mortimer Rogoff, Paul E. Green, Jr. & Wilbur B. Davenport, Jr. Spread-spectrum communications
1982 Arthur A. Collins Voice and data radio communications and electronics
1983 Allan Ashley, Joseph E. Herrmann & James S. Perry Voice and data radio communications and electronics[2]
1984 Leroy C. Perkins, Harry B. Smith & David H. Mooney High-repetition-rate airborne pulse-doppler radar
1985 Carl A. Wiley Synthetic-aperture radar
1986 William H. Guier, George C. Weiffenbach, Richard B. Kershner (P), & Frank T. McClure (P) Transit satellite navigation
1987 Rudolph A. Stampfl & Peter H. Werenfels Weather satellite automatic picture transmission
1988 Charles E. Cook & William M. Siebert Radar pulse compression
1989 Frederick H. Battle, Jr., Abraham Tatz & Joseph E. Woodward Microwave landing systems
1990 Jay W. Forrester & Robert R. Everett The Whirlwind computer
1991 Fred M. Staudaher, Melvin Labitt & Frank R. Dickey, Jr. Airborne moving-target radars
1992 William C. Eppers Laser systems
1993 William F. Bahret Stealth technology
1994 Bradford W. Parkinson Global Positioning System (GPS)
1995 Robert E. Cowdery & William A. Skillman Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS)
1996 Richard B. Marsten Direct Broadcast Satellites
1997 John H. Bryant (P), James Cheal & Vincent J. McHenry Subminiature Type A (SMA RF) Coaxial connectors
1998 John N. Entzminger, Charles A. Fowler & William J. Kenneally Concepts, ideas & designs leading to JointSTARS
1999 Tom M. Hyltin & Britton T. Vincent, Jr. Monolithic microwave integrated circuits & solid-state phased array radar
2000 Herbert G. Weiss Space Surveillance Radar Development
2001 Milton E. Radant Airborne Radar Signal Processing
2002 Joseph A. Meyer Conceptualization of the Personal Tracking System (PTS)
2003 Russel Boario ; William Brown; Jack L. Walker
2004 Erwin C. Gangl For development of MIL-STD-1553: Multiplexed Data Bus Avionic Intra-System Communication Standard
2005 Charles Edward Muehe For the invention of the Moving Target Detector (MTD) digital signal processor for aircraft surveillance radar
2006 William Fishbein For developing the fundamental concepts, system designs, and basic technology underpinning the design, development, testing, and fielding of the U.S. Army Firefinder family of radars
2007 George M. Kirkpatrick For the original development of monopulse techniques for radar systems
2008 Robert D. Briskman For development of Commercial and Broadcast Satellites Over the Past 40 Years.
2009 Yakov D. Shirman For the independent discovery of matched filtering, adaptive filtering, and high-resolution pulse compression for an entire generation of Russian and Ukrainian radars.
2010 Daniel A. Tazartes For Pioneering Contributions to the Development of Strapdown Inertial Instruments
2011 James V. Leonard For Pioneering Work in the Field of Aircraft/Missile Launch Systems
2012 Asad M. Madni For Seminal and Pioneering Contributions to the Development and Commercialization of Aerospace Electronic Systems
2013 George Lutes and Kam Lau For Enabling NASA’s Deep Space Communications and Radar Imaging System via Ultra-Stable Frequency/Timing Fiber Optic Transfer
2014 John Hines For contributions in the development and deployment of the Very High Speed Integrated Circuits Hardware Description Language (VHDL)
2015 Yakov S. Shifrin Founding Contributions to Modern Radio Physics and Statistical Antenna Theory (SAT)
2016 William J. Baldygo and Michael C. Wicks Algorithm Development, Experimental Demonstration, and Transition of Expert System Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR) to Airborne Radar Systems
2017 Paul Antonik and Gerard T. Capraro Modeling, Simulation Analysis, Design of a Real-Time Expert System Constant False and Alarm Rate (CFAR)
2018 James J. Spilker For Contributions to the Technology and Implementation of the GPS Civilian Navigation System.
2019 Azad M. Madni For contributions to advanced simulation-based training and intelligent decision aiding for aerospace systems.
2020 Alfonso Farina For pioneering contributions to the analysis, design, development, and experimentation of digital-based adaptive radar systems.

(P) denotes posthumous award.

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References

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  1. ^ "Society Pioneer Award | Aerospace & Electronic Systems Society". ieee-aess.org. Retrieved 2017-10-13.
  2. ^ "1983 Pioneer Award". IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. AES-19 (4). IEEE: 648–656. July 1983. doi:10.1109/TAES.1983.309363. Archived from the original on 2020-05-16. Retrieved 2020-05-16. […] The Pioneer Award Committee of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society has named […] Allan Ashley […] Joseph E. Her[r]mann […] James S. Perry […] as recipients of the 1983 Pioneer Award in recognition of the highly significant contributions made by them. "FOR ADVANCING THE STATE OF THE ART OF VOICE AND DATA RADIO COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS" The Award was presented at NAECON on May 18, 1983. […] (9 pages)
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