Mr. Frank B. Brady

For his recognized expertise in landing guidance systems and his direction of ILS. Mr. Frank B. Brady studied radio and electrical engineering at University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio from 1933 to 1939, working concurrently at Crosley Radio Corporation. He has had a long and varied career as an aviation electronics engineer and consultant. An expert in landing guidance systems he has authored numerous papers and has been active in national and international navigation and landing facilities development. He has served as an advisor to ICAO delegations and chaired NATO delegations. He helped develop instrument landing systems while at Wright Field before and during WWII. He directed the introduction of early ILS into North Atlantic routes and the European theatre of Operations. At the end of the war in Europe he continued ILS and navigation work with the airline industry as Flight Projects Engineer for the Air Transport Association. He spent a number of years in industry as Senior Staff consultant on Air Navigation, Landing Systems and Air Traffic Control Projects. He served as Executive Director of the ION from 1979 to his retirement in 1990. His primary retirement activity is the publication of his book, A Singular View, The Art of Seeing With One Eye, now in its fifth edition.

Mr. Ronald Braff

For his significant individual contributions to the application of navigation technologies in the air traffic control system and his efforts to resolve operational and safety concerns leading to the acceptance of GPS by the FAA.Mr. Ronald Braff has been making influential contributions in the applications of radio navigation to aircraft for 38 years while at FAA and MITRE. This includes VORTAC modernization, Loran and Omega application to the National Airspace System, and GPS augmentation. His most influential contributions occurred in the early 1980´s when he identified the GPS integrity shortcoming and brought it to the attention of government and industry, and conceived the GPS Integrity Channel that provides the network architecture for satellite based augmentation systems. During his ten years as editor of "NAVIGATION, The Journal of the Institute of Navigation," the journal was modernized, improved and expanded. He has received the ION´s Hays and Distinguished Service Awards.

Brigadier General Robert A. Duffy, USAF (Ret.)

For his contributions to the field of guidance, control and navigation. Brigadier General Robert A. Duffy, USAF (Ret.) has a natural affinity for people that has helped him assemble very talented and dedicated team members to create capabilities that satisfied military requirements for ICBMs and strategic aircraft. Subsequent to his USAF retirement, he directed the efforts of people at the Instrumentation Lab in creating systems for submarine navigation and for NASA´s space vehicle stabilization and control including APOLLO. Bob received his Aeronautical Engineering Degree from Georgia Tech. He attended MIT while assigned to the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory as a military trainee. Stark Draper, Professor and Department head of the Aero Department, focused Duffy´s interest in the engineering disciplines attendant to the technology which Draper largely created in the field of guidance, control and navigation. General Duffy is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a longtime member and past president of The Institute of Navigation. He was awarded the Thurlow Award by the Institute, received the Thomas D. White award from the National Geographic Society, and the USAF Distinguished Service Medal.

Mr. Ronald R. Hatch

For sustained and significant contributions to satellite navigation. Mr. Ronald R. Hatch´s entire career has been involved with satellite navigation and surveying, first with the TRANSIT system and then with GPS. Ron is perhaps best known for his innovation of smoothing the code measurements with the carrierphase measurements to mitigate multipath effects. Ron was one of the founders of NavCom Technology, a John Deere Company, and is currently the Director of Navigation Systems. Prior to joining NavCom, and after 23 years at Magnavox, Ron worked as a GPS consultant with a number of companies and government agencies. Included among these were Leica, Honeywell, Northrup, NASA and the FAA. Mr. Hatch received a B.S. degree in 1962 in Math and Physics from Seattle Pacific University. He has held a number of positions with the ION and is currently chair of the Satellite Division. Ron was the 1994 recipient of the Satellite Division´s Kepler Award.

Dr. William J. Klepczynski

For his contributions to the art of time and timing operations. Dr. William J. Klepczynski is currently with Innovative Solutions International, Inc. where he provides consultation for the Wide Area Augmentation System architecture and systems design, analysis of the timing of the WAAS network and the time transfer capabilities of the WAAS. As a former head of the Time Service Department of the U.S. Naval Observatory, he managed the USNO Master Clock, timing operations for the Global Positioning System (GPS) and time distribution systems that utilize communications satellites or other navigation systems for high precision synchronization of globally spaced timing centers. Dr. Klepczynski received a Ph.D. in Astronomy from Yale University in 1968, an M.A. from Georgetown University in 1964, and a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1961. Dr. Klepczynski has been a member of the ION from 1963, served as Editor of the journal of the ION, NAVIGATION, from 1971-1978 and was President from 1987-1988.

Mr. Mortimer Rogoff

For his pioneering work in the development of Electronic Chart Navigation Systems and as the principal inventor of Spread Spectrum as used in GPS. Mr. Mortimer Rogoff is an engineer, author and businessman, whose career spans communications, data processing, and radio navigation. He has been a manager, company officer, inventor and author. He founded and led companies in the data processing and marine navigation fields. He was among the earliest to patent, program, build, demonstrate and sell Electronic Chart Systems. His patent combining radar maps with electronic charts has resulted in today´s major improvement in marine navigation. Additionally, his pioneering invention of Spread Spectrum transmission is now the core of the Global Positioning System, and CDMA cellular telephony. Mr. Rogoff is also known for work on long range radio navigation systems that minimize the effects of atmospheric noise on system accuracy. He was an early proponent of radio navigation systems, and in his volume, Calculator Navigation, demonstrated practical methods of attaining precision ship location. Mort received his B.S.E.E. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and his M.S.E.E. from Columbia University. He is the current President of The Navigational Electronics Charts System Association. He is a IEEE Fellow and a member of the Cosmos Club.

Dr. P. Kenneth Seidelmann

For his leadership in the international revisions of reference systems. Dr. P. Kenneth Seidelmann is Director of Astrometry at the U.S. Naval Observatory. He was a leader in the international revisions of reference systems. He directed the modernizing of the almanacs and the introduction of electronic almanacs. Dr. Seidelmann edited the "Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac." He is a codiscoverer of the Saturn satellite Calypso. He calculated the analemma for the Longwood Gardens Sundial, and prepared the star charts for the Einstein Statues on the National Academy of Sciences grounds in Washington and Jerusalem. He was a member of the Wide Field/Planetary Camera Team of the Hubble Space Telescope. He is chair of the Science Team of the Fullsky Astrometric Mapping Explorer (FAME). Dr. Seidelmann received an E.E., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees and also a Distinguished Alumni Award, from the University of Cincinnati. He is author of over one hundred scientific papers and coeditor of seven books. Ken is president of IAU Division I and the Celestial Mechanics Institute. He is past president of The Institute of Navigation and recipient of the Hays Award. Minor planet 3217 is named "Seidelmann" in his honor.

Colonel Leonard R. Sugerman, USAF (Ret.)

For his leadership in overseeing the development, production and testing of bomb navigation, guidance, attitude control and autopilot systems for strategic aircraft, missile, satellite and reentry systems. Colonel Leonard R. Sugerman, USAF (Ret.) has been Assistant to the Director of the Physical Science Laboratory, New Mexico State University since retiring from the Air Force in 1975 after thirtythree years of service. His past assignments included the Pentagon, Air Force Systems Command, Research and Technology Division, AF Missile Development Center, AF Special Weapons Center and White Sands Missile Range. His responsibilities included the development and testing of selfcontained bombing and navigation equipment for tactical and strategic aircraft, missile, satellite and reentry systems. Two wartime overseas tours were spent with engineering units. While assigned to the Air Staff in 1958, he made the inertial navigation systems available to the navy´s special Projects Office enabling the Polaris nuclear submarines Nautilus and Skate to reach the North Pole submerged. Len holds a B.S. Degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he studied under Dr. Draper and Professor Wrigley, and M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and an M.P.A. from New Mexico State University. Len has been a member of the ION for over forty years, served as President in 1970 and received the Hays Award in 1971. In 1967 he received the Air Force Association Meritorious Management Award for service performed while assigned to the AF Central Inertial Guidance Test Facility at Holloman AFB .

Dr. A.J. Van Dierendonck

For continuing contributions over 26 years to the design and development of the Global Positioning System. Dr. A.J. Van Dierendonck has worked on all segments of satellite navigation. He has achieved recognition as codeveloper of the L5 signal structure, an Ionospheric Scintillation Monitor, and the NarrowCorrelator technology and its application to multipath mitigation. He has served as chair of the RTCA working group responsible for the development of Minimum Operational Performance Standards (MOPS) using GPS and the signal specifications currently being used by RTCA, the FAA and ICAO for Satellite Based Augmentation Systems. He has developed and promoted the use of Geostationary Satellites for ranging and integrity applications of GPS, developed a receiver used exclusively in the FAA Navigation Satellite Test Bed in both the reference stations and in the flight test vehicles, and a noninterfering / noncross correlating signal specification for Airport Pseudolites (APLs). He is currently involved in civil GPS modernization, C/A code signal anomaly detection, GPS augmentation standards and GNSS receiver design and development. Dr. Van Dierendonck has worked on GPS and satellite navigation for over 26 years for General Dynamics, Stanford Telecom and Inmarsat, and currently as an international consultant at AJ Systems and a general partner of GPS Silicon Valley. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. from Iowa State University and B.S. from South Dakota State University. He has been the recipient of the ION´s Burka Award, the Kepler Award and Thurlow Award. He is an IEEE Fellow and has been inducted in the US Air Force´s GPS Hall of Fame.

HONORARY FELLOW
Mr. Michael W. Richey

Mr. Michael W. Richey played a prominent part in the successive international working groups that were responsible for the introduction of traffic separation at sea, first in the Dover Strait and then worldwide. Mr. Richey, MBE was Director of the (subsequently Royal) Institute of Navigation in the United Kingdom from its foundation in 1947 until his retirement in 1982. He was founder/editor of its journal, "The Journal of Navigation" from 1948 to 1986. Michael was influential in the formation of the International Association of Institutes of Navigation and was its first Secretary General and later President. He was awarded the Superior Achievement Award of the U.S. Institute in 1966, the Medaille d´Honneur of the French Institute in 1969 and the Gold Medal of the Royal Institute in 1979. He is an Honorary Member of many of the Institutes in IAIN. As a yachtsman he has sailed many long singlehanded passages in the 25 foot yacht Jester, including some dozen transatlantic voyages. In 1986 he was awarded the Seamanship Medal of the Royal Cruising Club. For his international dedication and collaboration with the numerous navigation organizations in the advancement of the art and science of navigation.