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