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2023 Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate Associate Administrator Awards

Technology and Innovation Honoree

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NASA Langley Research Center
Bruce Anderson
Joseph Atkinson
Rosemary Baize
John Barrick
Rory Barton-Grimley
Kristopher Bedka
Seth Begay
Matthew Brown
Melinda Cagle
Yonghoon Choi
Jim Collins
Brian Collister
John Cooney
Garfield Creary
Ewan Crosbie
Maurice Cross
Harper David
Joshua DiGangi
Mary DiJoseph
Glenn Diskin
Dave Duda
Trina Dyal
David Eckberg
Richard Ferrare
Francesca Gallo
Marisol Garcia
John Hair
Carolyn Jordan
Grant Kirchhoff
Joe Lee
Denise Lineberry
Jay Madigan
John Marketon
David Lee Meade
Sherry Monk
Richard Moore*
Amin Nehrir
Anna Noe
John Nowak
Ali Omar
Mario Rana
Claire Robinson
Laura Rogers
Kevin Sanchez
Amy Jo Scarino
Taylor Shingler
Michael Shook
DeBora Smith
Bill Smith Jr.
Bill Smith Sr
Paul Speth
Pamela Stacy
Lee Thornhill
Aboubakar Traore
Steven Velotas
Jennifer Viudez
Elizabeth Wiggins
Edward Winstead
Teh-Hwa Wong
Luke Ziemba

NASA Ames Research Center
Paul Bui
Chang Cecilia
Doug Christensen
Jonathan Dean-Day
Charles Gatebe
Richard Kolyer
Sofia Persson
Rajesh Poudyal
Jay Tomlin
Rei Ueyama

NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center
Christopher Acuff
Andy Barry
Garry Beauregard
Joseph (Ryan) Bennett
Michael Bereda
Matt Berry
Kirsten Boogaard
Jeff Borton
Juan Delafuente
Brian Elit
Hovhannes Gasparyan
Brad Grantham
Jonathan Hale
Erica Heim
Brian Hobbs
Terry Hu
Kelly Jellison
Tyler Keppel
Steve Koertge
Craig Little
Lori Losey
Jack Ly
Lester Magee
Isac Mata
Thomas Matthews
Gary Moors
Jeffrey Nelms
Tracy Phelps
Joe Piotrowski
Matt Pitsch
James Ross
Nickelle Reid
Todd Renfro
Wayne Ringelberg
Alberto Rodriguez
Tim Sandon
Mark Scherer
Scott Silver
Greg Slover
James Smith
Jasmine Tabla
Randy Thompson
Michael Thomson
Julio Trevino
David Van Gilst
Erin Waggoner
Jared Whitfield
Jeff Wilson

NASA Glenn Research Center
Clifford Brown
Ru-Ching Chen
Krystal Destrampe
Francisco Guzman
James Kenyon
Jennifer Klettlinger
Jeffrey Moder
Thomas Ratvasky
Jessica Reinert
Dawn Sgro
Dale VanZante

NASA Headquarters
Shannon Eichorn
Barbara Esker
James Heidmann
Amy Jankovsky
Nateri Madavan
Jon Montgomery
Bob Pearce
Karen Rugg
Ed Waggoner
Richard Wahls

Aerodyne
Richard A. Plastow

Aerodyne
Bruce Daube
Christoph Dyroff
Edward Fortner
Andy Freedman
Scott Herndon
Rick Miake-Lye
Benjamin Nault
Tim Onasch
Anandi Williams

Artium
Greg Payne

ATS
Troy Porter

Boeing
Kayla Albaugh
Elisabeth Alfstad-Hahn
Steven Baughcum
Terry Beezhold
Matt Campbell
Todd Citron
Matthew Clarkson
Michael Drake
William Griffin
Sheyenne Harris
Chad Lloyd
Jeffrey McNew
Rose Miller
Tim Rahmes
Abigail Sevier
Michael Sinnett
Kerry Smith
Paul Weatherman

DLR
Heinfried Aufmhoff
Tiziana Bräuer
Rebecca Katharina Dischl
Andreas Dörnbrack
Valerian Hahn
Christopher Heckl
Elisabeth Horst
Stefan Kaufmann
Raphael Satoru Märkl
Gregor Neumann
Anke Roiger
Daniel Sauer
Monika Scheibe
Luca Stremming
Christiane Voigt

DOE Sandia
Julien Manin

FAA
Nicole Didyk Wells
Prem Lobo
Anna Oldani

GE Aerospace
Jerrold Cline
George Dalakos
Mustafa Dindar
Matthew Drodofsky
Ryan Jones
Nathan Kamps
Hejie Li
Cassi Miller
David Ostdiek
Carlos Roberto Peixeiro Dos Santos Filho
John Wojno
Gary Wollenweber
Joseph Zelina

Missouri Science & Technology
Steven Achterberg
William (Dave) Satterfield
Phil Whitefield
Klaus Woelk

MIT
Sebastian Eastham
Louis Anh Tai Robion

NRC Canada
Greg Smallwood

Princeton
Ryan Boyd
Yunseo Choi
James McSpritt
Vladislav Sevostianov
Lars Wendt
Hongming Yi
Mark Zondlo

United Airlines
Hannah Brady
Julien Lamblin
Rohini Sengupta

University of Wisconsin
Doug Adler
Lori Borg
Daniel DeSlover
Ray Garcia
Denny Hackel
Dan LaPorte
Brock LaPorte
William Roberts
Joe Taylor
David Tobin

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