Sensor Systems Technical CommitteeGoals and Plans

September 2009

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Purpose

• This document identifies current goals and plans of the AIAA Sensor Systems Technical Committee (SENTC)

• The TC will review and update these plans annually• TC operating procedures are documented separately

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Membership

• It is the goal of SENTC to achieve and maintain a full membership count (35 regular TC members)

• Until this level is achieved, it is the goal of the TC to add 5 additional TC members per calendar year (net change after accounting for members rotating off of the TC) The TC Steering Committee may adopt more specific goals

• For 2010, SENTC goals are a membership level of 28 regular members and 2 International Members

• When the TC achieves full membership strength, a follow-on goal is to add and maintain at least 2 Associate TC members (in addition to regular and International members)

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Technical Activities – Conference Support

• The TC plans to continue to support the following AIAA conferences with technical paper sessions and related activities Aerospace Sciences Meeting (annual) Infotech@Aerospace (as scheduled) Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GN&C) (annual) Space 200x (annual)

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Technical Activities – Awards

• The TC plans to continue solicitation of candidates and selection of nominees for the AIAA Information Systems Award, jointly with the Computer Systems TC

• A goal of the TC is to initiate a regular (annual) process for giving a “Best Paper” award: At the full AIAA member level; and At the Student Member level An additional goal of the TC is to obtain sources of funding sufficient to

provide honoraria in conjunction with these awards

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Technical Activities – Other

• The TC plans to maintain liaisons with other AIAA TCs and outside organizations, as documented in TC procedures

• The TC plans to annually publish a “highlights” article for inclusion in the year-end Aerospace America issue

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Current TC Organization (as of Sep 2009)

ChairT. Howard

SecretaryH. Gross

Chair-ElectM. Nixon

Topic AreaChairs

SubcommitteeChairs

WebmasterC. Hernandez

Liaisons

TC Members

ASM (Nixon)Infotech (Papadopoulos, Accardo*)Space (Keeney)GN&C (Clancy)

Pubs (Martin)Membership (vacant)H&A (Puschell)

AMT (Otugen)GN&C (Clancy)

JPC (Hernandez)Space Sys & Space

Explor. PC (Puschell)Infotech Procedures

(Lekki)IEEE (vacant)SPIE (vacant)

* = International member** = Associate member

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