MITRE Engineers Honored for Achievements in Airborne Traffic Avoidance

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MCLEAN, Va., December 3, 2009 — MITRE Corporation engineers Chris Moody, Doyle Peed, Robert Strain, and Dr. Warren Wilson have received the 2009 Dr. John C. Ruth Digital Avionics Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the world's largest technical society dedicated to the global aerospace profession.

The award, formerly known as the Digital Avionics Award, recognizes outstanding achievement in technical management and/or implementation of digital avionics in space or aeronautical systems to include system analysis, design, development or application.

This is the second year in a row that MITRE engineers have been recognized. Dr. Andrew Zeitlin received the award in 2008. The MITRE engineers were honored for their invention, prototyping, initial implementation, standardization, and promotion of the Universal Access Transceiver (UAT) and the UAT Beacon Radio, airborne traffic avoidance technologies used by small unmanned aircraft and general aviation aircraft operating in lower altitudes.

"MITRE's UAT and UAT Beacon Radio technologies represent important advances in airspace safety, and Chris, Doyle, Rob, and Warren have made critical contributions to the development and implementation of these technologies," said Agam Sinha, senior vice president and general manager of the Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD), the federally funded research and development center that MITRE operates for the Federal Aviation Administration. "Their recognition by the AIAA is a tribute to their innovative work and a true honor for CAASD."

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