RTCA 2024 Award Winners
William E. Jackson Award
The William E. Jackson Award is presented to an outstanding graduate student in the field of aviation electronics and telecommunications. This award is a memorial to William E. Jackson, a pioneer in the development and implementation of the nation’s air traffic control system and an enthusiastic supporter of student engineers.
This year’s William E. Jackson Award has been presented to Dr. Elisa Gallon for her thesis entitled “High-Integrity Modeling of Non-Stationary Kalman Filter Input Error Processes and Application to Aircraft Navigation.” She holds a B.S.in pure mathematics from Université Blaise Pascal, M.S. in GNSS from Ecole Nationale De l’Aviation Civile (ENAC) and ISAE-Supaéro, and Ph.D from Illinois Institute of Technology.
From 2016 to 2017, she worked as a young graduate trainee at the European Space Agency on orbit determination and time synchronization of Galileo satellites, more precisely on the improvement of their orbit fitting algorithm. Between 2018 and 2023, she worked on the development of bounding, time correlated GNSS error models as part of her PhD at Illinois Institute of Technology, during which she received the Samuel M. Burka award. During that time, she also attended and presented at the Working Group C of the RTCA which focuses on the development of Advanced RAIM. In line with her research interests, she is currently working at Airbus Defense and Space in Toulouse, France in the navigation algorithm and performance team for advanced projects.
Click here to learn more about the William E. Jackson Award submission process.
Click here to see previous winners of the William E. Jackson Award.
Outstanding Leaders
The Outstanding Leader Award recognizes the added demands placed on RTCA Special Committee Chairs and/or other Committee participants who serve in leadership roles.
2024 Outstanding Leaders
| Outstanding Leader | Company |
|---|---|
| Nadine Akari | The Boeing Company |
| Laurent Azoulai | Airbus |
| Clay Barber | Garmin Ltd. |
| Jean-Baptiste Berthier | Airbus |
| Michael Deer | Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc. |
| Jeffery A. Finley | Collins Aerospace |
| Dawn M. Gidner | The Boeing Company |
| Margarete F. Groll | MIT Lincoln Laboratory |
| Randal Guendel | MIT Lincoln Laboratory |
| Marvin Hammond | Technology Providers, Inc. |
| Dr. Fan Liu | FAA |
| Mikaël Mabilleau | European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) |
| Rose Merchant-Bennett | FAA |
| Michael Neale | ACES Inc. |
| Stephane Pelleschi | Collins Aerospace |
| Claire Hardy Robinson | Universal Avionics Systems Corp. |
| Aloke Roy | Consultant |
| Andrew Roy | Aviation Spectrum Resources |
| Julia Sanchez | EUROCONTROL |
| Randy WIllis | Northrop Grumman Corporation |
Significant Contributors
The Significant Contributor award recognizes individuals for very important and noteworthy contributions to Special Committees and their products.
2024 Significant Contributors
| Significant Contributor | Company |
|---|---|
| Frédéric Beltrando | Airbus |
| Denis Bouvet | Thales Group |
| Javier Ceballos-Gutiérrez | EUROCONTROL |
| Ron Dlouhy | Collins Aerospace |
| John Foley | Garmin Ltd. |
| Victor M. Gordo | INECO |
| Marvin Hammond | Technology Providers, Inc. |
| Dietmar Kleinitz | Airbus |
| Barbara Kobzik-Juul | Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory |
| Thierry Lelievre | Cap Gemini on behalf of Airbus |
| E. Tod Lewis | NASA |
| Alfonso Malaga | ACES Inc. |
| John Micallef | EUROCONTROL |
| Henrik Olsson | Weibel Scientific |
| Mark Prior | M Prior Consulting |
| Craig Scheffler | Wisk |
| Venkata A. Sishtla | Collins Aerospace |
| Mariusz Starzec | Garmin Ltd. |
| François Tranchet | Airbus |
| Jessie Turner | The Boeing Company |
| Bela Varkonyi | FREQUENTIS A.G. |
| Timo Warns | Airbus |
| Dongsong Zeng | The MITRE Corporation |
For more information:
Significant Contributors Award, please contact contact James Venslauskas
Outstanding Leaders Award, please contact contact James Venslauskas
William E. Jackson Award, please contact contact James Venslauskas
RTCA-National Aviation Hall of Fame Educator Scholarship
The National Aviation Hall of Fame (NAHF) and RTCA, Inc. have partnered to create a new Professional Development Scholarship Program to support Pre-K-6th-grade educators in sharing the concepts of aviation and aerospace with their students through the NAHF’s elementary classroom curriculum program Problem Solving with Wilbur and Orville. More details.
