2025 ION Annual Award Recipients

Burka Award: Dr. Sharbel Kozhaya, Joe Saroufim, and Dr. Zaher (Zak) M. Kassas 
For their paper, "Unveiling Starlink for PNT," published in the Spring 2025 issue of NAVIGATION, Journal of the Institute of Navigation
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Hays Award: Francisco Javier Benedicto Ruiz 
For visionary leadership and sustained contributions that enabled EGNOS, Galileo, and the definition of
next-generation navigation, securing Europe’s global leadership in satellite navigation
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Per Enge Early Achievement Award: Dr. Rong Yang 
For the advancement of GNSS resilience in challenging environments
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PTTI Distinguished Service Award: Dr. James Camparo 
For excellence in collaboration and education in addressing technical risk in the application of atomic clocks for space-based position, navigation, and timing
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Superior Achievement Award: Captain Celestia P. Holguin 
For improved MC-130 student flight training outcomes, and pioneered innovative airdrop procedures
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Thurlow Award: Dr. Daniele Borio 
For pioneering multidimensional GNSS meta-signal processing using hypercomplex numbers, enabling optimal multi-frequency signal reconstruction, robust measurement techniques adopted by industry, and advancing receiver design
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Tycho Brahe Award: Dr. Todd A. Ely 
For seminal contributions to the advancement of autonomous space navigation technologies, including the Deep Space Atomic Clock, and one-way uplink radiometric tracking in lunar orbit
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Weems Award: Matt Harris 
For significant and sustained contributions to the development and standardization of GNSS for aviation applications
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