Everyone who is anyone in the positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) world knows ION is the Institute of Navigation, a scientific, nonprofit organization that works to elevate navigation standards. Among other things, it spotlights the achievements of practicing navigators, scientists, and those involved in the development and production of navigation equipment.
The institute sponsors several annual awards recognizing individuals who have made significant contributions or demonstrated outstanding performance in the PNT-related realms. Nominations for annual awards may be submitted by anyone except the nominee, and neither nominees nor nominators need be ION members. Nominations must be received by 15 October, 2024.
Awarding excellence
The Institute is now accepting nominations for the following annual awards:
– The Per Enge Early Achievement Award, which recognizes an individual early in his or her career who has made an outstanding achievement in the art and science of positioning, navigation and/or timing.
– The Superior Achievement Award, recognizing practicing navigators who have made outstanding contributions to the advancement of navigation.
– The Distinguished PTTI Service Award, recognizing outstanding contributions in the area of PTTI systems management.
– The Captain P.V.H. Weems Award, which recognizes contributions to the art and science of navigation.
– The Tycho Brahe Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the science of space navigation, guidance, and control.
– The Norman P. Hays Award, recognizing outstanding encouragement, inspiration and support contributing to the advancement of navigation.
– The Colonel Thomas L. Thurlow Award, recognizing outstanding contributions to the science of navigation.
Finally, election to ION Fellow membership, the Institute’s highest honor, recognizes notable members of the Institute who have made outstanding and sustained contributions to the art and science of PNT.
Be there for the winners
The next ION awards presentation will be hosted in Long Beach, California on 27-30 January 2025, at the Institute’s co-located International Technical Meeting (ITM) and Precise Time and Time Interval (PTTI) Meeting.
The ITM features a select, PNT-focused technical program, with a Technical Committee comprising ITM General Chair Dr. Sabrina Ugazio of Ohio University and ITM Program Chair Dr. Andrew Neish of Reliable Robotics. The PTTI Meeting technical program is designed to disseminate user-level PTTI information. Participants here, who include government and industry engineers, technicians, and managers, will review present and future PTTI technologies, requirements and challenges. The Technical Committee includes PTTI Program Chair Dr. Josef Vojtech of CESNET and PTTI Tutorials Chair Dr. Giancarlo Cerretto of Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica.
