| Year | Recipient(s) | Contribution |
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| 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. |
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