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Washington Section


Washington Section Bylaws

Chair: Ms. Sally Frodge
FAA
Vice-Chair: Dr. John Carl Adams
NASA GSFC
Tel: (301) 286-2618
john.c.adams@nasa.gov
Secretary: Mr. Ron Beard
NRL
Treasurer: CDR Gary Thomas
USCG
Student Scholarship Committee: Dave Winfield
Terry McGurn


Section Officer and Committee Record


Past Meetings:

DateLocationSpeakerActivity
October 6, 2009 Ballston Mall, Arlington, VA CDR Christopher Stout Presentation on the USCG Deployable Operations Group
April 7, 2009 Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum Dr. Frank van Graas ION Government Fellows Program and the Hunt for GPS Anomalies
October 15, 2008 Buca di Beppo Restaurant Dr. Alfred Wicks Presentation on the Virginia Tech DARPA Urban Challenge Team
May 21, 2008 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Rivers Lamb Presentation on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
Dec. 3, 2007 Al Crostino Restaurant Dr. Mikel Miller Presentation on the ION Autonomous Lawnmower Competition
Jun. 27, 2007 NASA HQ Dr. Martin Unwin Presentation on the GIOVE-A Satellite Mission
Jan. 10, 2007 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Dr. Carl Adams Presentation on Recent Advances in Spacecraft GPS Applications
Nov. 29, 2006 Naval Research Lab Tom Stansell Presentation on the Three Most Important Changes in GNSS
Sep. 14, 2006 Gov. Calvert House, Annapolis Mr. Joe Brannan Presentation on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Student Competition
May 31, 2006 University of Maryland Dr. Darryl Pines, Dr. Suneel Sheikh Presentation on XNAV (Spacecraft Navigation using Pulsars)
Dec. 12, 2005 U.S. Naval Observatory Ms. Francine Vannicola Presentation on upcoming Air & Space Museum Exhibit on Navigation and Time Keeping
Sep. 28, 2005 US Capitol Mr. Larry Hothem Presentation on USGS activities in Antarctica.
June 8, 2005 NASA HQ Mr. Jason Soloff Presentation on NASA's Long Term Navigation and Communications Architecture
Dec. 13, 2004 U.S. Naval Observatory Dr. Svenja Knappe Presentation on Chip-Scale Vapor-Cell Atomic Clocks
Aug. 24, 2004 DOT Headquarters Ralph Braibanti Lecture on GPS-Galileo Cooperation Agreement
June 22, 2004 William Paca House, Annapolis, MD CAPT Curtis Dubay, P.E. Lecture on Classical Navigation Techniques
April 17, 2004 Udvar-Hazy Museum -- Tour of the Steven Udvar-Hazy Museum
Jan. 22, 2004National Research Laboratory Jay Oaks Satellite Time Transfer Presentation & Tour of NRL Facilities
Nov. 13, 2003 Patuxent River Naval Air Station Frank Allen Tour of Naval Air Station and Museum,
Lecture on the Joint Precision Approach and Landing System (JPALS)
Oct. 28, 2003 Institute for Defense Analyses John McHale Bylaws coordination meeting
Aug. 14, 2003U.S. Naval Observatory Jamie HellerTour of USNO and A Discussion of Russia's GLONASS,
Europe's Galileo, and China's Beidou Satellite Navigation Systems
Mar. 26, 2003FHWA Turner Fairbank Highway Research Center Glenn WasherTour of Federal Highway Administration's Nondestructive Evaluation Center
Jan. 27, 2003Russell Senate Office Building David LylesLegislative process, and the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC)
Nov. 13, 2002IDA Frank CzopekGPS Satellite Life
July 8, 2002IDA Dr. Scott PaceGPS Policy Development