Pioneer Award (Aviation)

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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]

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Recipients

YearRecipient(s)Contribution
1949Thomas C. RivesLeadership in the development of aircraft electronics
1950L. M. Clements Electronic Countermeasures
1951 Harold M. McClelland “Highways in the Sky”–The forerunner of today's ATC
1952A. Hoyt Taylor Use of radio waves for detection of ship traffic (circa 1922)
1953David G. C. Luck Radio direction-finding for aircraft and the omnidirectional range
1954Francis W. DunmoreReplacement of radio batteries by AC; radio aids to marine and air navigation; blind landing system (today’s ILS)
1955Lewis M. Hull Wave propagation to/from aircraft; the Kolster localizer system
1956Alfred W. Marriner & Wallace G. SmithDevelopment 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
1956Wayne G. Eaton (P)Ground and airborne radio equipment
1956John W. Greig (P)Automatic phase comparison direction finding
1956Thorp Hiscock (P) Two-way voice radio for aircraft
1956 Frederick A. Kolster (P) Marine radio direction finding; radio compass
1956William H. Murphy (P)Airborne antennas and radio range systems
1956John Stone (P) Radio direction finding (circa 1900)
1957 Lawrence A. Hyland Direction finding, altimetry, ignition shielding, and radar
1957Alessandro Artom (P)Directional properties of radio transmission and reception (circa 1905)
1958 Albert F. Hegenberger & Clayton C. Shangraw Four-course radio range beacon
1958Malcolm P. Hanson (P)Arctic, Antarctic and transatlantic flight radio communication
1959 Henri G. Busignies & Francis L. MoseleyAircraft automatic radio direction finding
1960 John H. Dellinger Aircraft approach and landing electronics
1960Wilbur L. Webb (P)Visual “L—R” radio compass
1961John Alvin PierceRadio navigation systems: Loran, Skywave, RaduX, Omega
1962Donald M. Stuart VHF omni-range (VOR)
1963 Luis W. Alvarez Aircraft approach and landing radar
1964Ernst Ludwig Kramar Sonne (Consol) and other instrument landing systems (ILS)
1965 Andrew Alford VOR & ILS navigation antennas; the Alford Loop
1966Robert J. DippyHyperbolic radio navigation (GEE and LORAN)
1966Otto Scheller (P) The radio range (circa 1907)
1967 Lloyd Espenschied & Russell C. Newhouse Frequency modulated radio altimeters
1968William J. TullAircraft ground speed using Doppler
1969William J. O’Brien & Harvey F. Schwarz DECCA (hyperbolic) navigation
1970Paul G. Hansel Doppler VOR
1971Robert L. Frank & Winslow Palmer LORAN-C navigation
1972Myron H. Nichols Time-division multiplex telemetry
1973 Frederic Calland Williams Secondary radar beacon design
1973 Bertram Vivian Bowden Secondary radar system development
1973Kenneth Ernest Harris (P)Air traffic control secondary radar
1974George B. Litchford & Joseph LymanPrecision omnidirectional microwave beacons
1975 Ivan A. Getting Microwave radar
1976Spencer Kellogg IIZero reader flight display
1977 Robert M. Page Monostatic radar
1978 Charles S. Draper Inertial technology
1979Peter R. Murray Pilotless aircraft
1980Sven H. Dodington Distance measuring equipment
1981Louis 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
1983Allan Ashley, Joseph E. Herrmann & James S. PerryVoice and data radio communications and electronics [2]
1984Leroy C. Perkins, Harry B. Smith & David H. MooneyHigh-repetition-rate airborne pulse-doppler radar
1985 Carl A. Wiley Synthetic-aperture radar
1986William H. Guier, George C. Weiffenbach, Richard B. Kershner (P), & Frank T. McClure (P) Transit satellite navigation
1987Rudolph A. Stampfl & Peter H. Werenfels Weather satellite automatic picture transmission
1988Charles E. Cook & William M. SiebertRadar pulse compression
1989Frederick H. Battle, Jr., Abraham Tatz & Joseph E. Woodward Microwave landing systems
1990 Jay W. Forrester & Robert R. Everett The Whirlwind computer
1991Fred M. Staudaher, Melvin Labitt & Frank R. Dickey, Jr.Airborne moving-target radars
1992William C. Eppers Laser systems
1993William F. Bahret Stealth technology
1994 Bradford W. Parkinson Global Positioning System (GPS)
1995Robert E. Cowdery & William A. Skillman Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS)
1996Richard B. Marsten Direct Broadcast Satellites
1997John H. Bryant (P), James Cheal & Vincent J. McHenrySubminiature Type A (SMA RF) Coaxial connectors
1998John N. Entzminger, Charles A. Fowler & William J. KenneallyConcepts, ideas & designs leading to JointSTARS
1999Tom M. Hyltin & Britton T. Vincent, Jr. Monolithic microwave integrated circuits & solid-state phased array radar
2000Herbert G. WeissSpace Surveillance Radar Development
2001Milton E. RadantAirborne Radar Signal Processing
2002Joseph A. MeyerConceptualization of the Personal Tracking System (PTS)
2003Russel Boario ; William Brown; Jack L. Walker
2004Erwin C. GanglFor development of MIL-STD-1553: Multiplexed Data Bus Avionic Intra-System Communication Standard
2005Charles Edward MueheFor the invention of the Moving Target Detector (MTD) digital signal processor for aircraft surveillance radar
2006William FishbeinFor 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
2007George M. KirkpatrickFor 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.
2009Yakov D. ShirmanFor the independent discovery of matched filtering, adaptive filtering, and high-resolution pulse compression for an entire generation of Russian and Ukrainian radars.
2010Daniel A. TazartesFor Pioneering Contributions to the Development of Strapdown Inertial Instruments
2011James V. LeonardFor Pioneering Work in the Field of Aircraft/Missile Launch Systems
2012Asad M. MadniFor Seminal and Pioneering Contributions to the Development and Commercialization of Aerospace Electronic Systems
2013George Lutes and Kam LauFor Enabling NASA’s Deep Space Communications and Radar Imaging System via Ultra-Stable Frequency/Timing Fiber Optic Transfer
2014John HinesFor contributions in the development and deployment of the Very High Speed Integrated Circuits Hardware Description Language (VHDL)
2015Yakov S. ShifrinFounding Contributions to Modern Radio Physics and Statistical Antenna Theory (SAT)
2016 William J. Baldygo and Michael C. WicksAlgorithm Development, Experimental Demonstration, and Transition of Expert System Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR) to Airborne Radar Systems
2017Paul Antonik and Gerard T. CapraroModeling, 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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  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 . IEEE. AES-19 (4): 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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