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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