Volpe Center: Volpe Center Highlights

On August 5, 2002, two Volpe staff members received Group Superior Accomplishment Awards from the manager of the Federal Aviation Administration's Flight Standards Certification and Surveillance Division.
- Ms. Regina Houston, Aviation Safety Division, received the award in acknowledgement of her contributions as a member of the National Program Guidelines Surveillance and Evaluation Program Workgroup. The workgroup developed software and work instructions to introduce system safety and risk management procedures to particular air carriers.

Volpe staff received Group Superior Accomplishment Awards from FAA.

Mr. David Tammaro, Aviation Safety Division, received the award in acknowledgement of his contributions as a member of the Safety Performance Analysis System/Air Transportation Oversight System (ATOS) Integration Panel. The panel developed the requirements for data presentations to meet the needs of the ATOS Certificate Management Office managers, principal inspectors, and analysts.

Ms. Lynn Murray, Chief of the Communications and Technology Outreach Division, recently accepted an award from the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer. Ms. Murray received the 2002 Northeast Region Regional Coordinators Excellence Award for her significant contributions to the region's technology transfer efforts.
Ms. Karen Van Dyke of the Center for Navigation, as a member of the Civil-Related Interagency Global Positioning System (GPS) Executive Board Project Team, shared the Team of the Quarter Award from the GPS Joint Program Office. On September 6, 2002, U.S. Air Force Colonel Doug Loverro, who heads the GPS Joint Program Office, presented the award. The team was honored for demonstrating the significant benefits to civil and military safety-of-life applications of GPS that will result from better understanding the failure modes of current and future GPS signals and developing the capability to provide sufficient, worldwide monitoring of the signals.