finalists
AERONAUTICS/PROPULSION
- AeroVironment Nano Air Vehicle team
- Boeing 787 team
- F-35 STOVL Propulsion team
BUSINESS/GENERAL AVIATION
- Pat Epps, founder of Epps Aviation, DeKalb-Peachtree Airport, Atlanta
- Preston Henne, senior vice president, Programs, Engineering and Test, Gulfstream Aerospace Corp
- Tom Poberezny, chairman emeritus, Experimental Aircraft Assn.
COMMERCIAL AIR TRANSPORT
- Filippo Bagnato, chief executive officer, ATR
- John Borghetti, chief executive officer of Virgin Australia
- United Airlines managers Gerry McGill and Guy Schroeder
DEFENSE
- The Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) Satellite Recovery Team
- NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen
- Timothy Owings, deputy unmanned aerial systems (UAS) project manager, U.S. Army UAS Project Office
- U.S. Navy and Northrop Grumman Fire Scout team
- Samuel Young, Insitu field service representative, and U.S. Navy Lt. Nicholas Townsend
IT/ELECTRONICS
- P-3C Aircrew Tactical Team Trainer (PACT3) Integrated Product Team, PMA-205/NAWCTSD, U.S. Navy
- Henry Putek, Jr., B-777 captain and Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) team leader, American Airlines
- Swedish Air Force team members, in collaboration with Danish military officials
MAINTENANCE, REPAIR AND OVERHAUL
- Patrick J. Doyle, Sr. Manager, Hangar Maintenance (Avionics & Powerplants), Fedex Express
- DRS Technologies Inc., Mast-Mounted Sight (MMS) team
- Kevin O’Connor, vice director of the 76th Maintenance Wing at Tinker AFB, Okla
- The U.S. Navy’s Team Tomodachi, led by Capt. Mike Kelly, Aviation Material Officer for the Commander Naval Air Forces
SPACE
- Kepler Mission team
- Messenger team
- X-37B development team
WORKFORCE
- Steve Carman, director, Program Operations/ Space Systems division, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
- The CyberPatriot team, sponsor of the National High School Cyber Defense Competition
- Paul Graziani, founder and CEO of Analytical Graphics Inc. (AGI)
- Wounded Warrior Project team
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
- Pete Rustan, former deputy director for mission support at the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.
HEROISM
- ICE 68, comprised of members of the active dutry 62nd Airlift Wing and the Reserve Associate 446th Airlift Wing, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA
