On Mar 11, 9:35 am, Larry Dighera wrote:
Wow! Who knew ADS-B was such a great achievement as Global Hawk,
Joint Strike Fighter, Gulfstream G550, and SpaceShipOne?

http://www.naa.aero/html/awards/index.cfm?cmsid=62
NAA ANNOUNCES ADS-B PROGRAM
AS THE WINNER OF THE 2007 ROBERT J. COLLIER TROPHY

Arlington, Virginia, March 6, 2008 - The National Aeronautic
Association (NAA) announced today at their Annual Spring Awards
Luncheon that the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast
(ADS-B) Team of public and private sector groups has been selected
as the recipient of the 2007 Robert J. Collier Trophy. The Collier
Trophy will be presented at a formal dinner on Thursday, June 12,
at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, Virginia.

Government and industry leaders who have collaborated for nearly a
decade will be honored "for conceptualizing, developing, and the
initial implementation of Automatic Dependent
Surveillance-Broadcast, the next generation performance-based
air-ground, ground-air, and air-air surveillance system."

"ADS-B is a ground-breaking effort for next-generation airborne
surveillance and cockpit avionics," noted NAA Chairman and Collier
Selection Committee Chairman Walter Boyne. "Its implementation
will have a broad impact on the safety, capacity and efficiency of
the national airspace system."

ADS-B was the vision of many prestigious aviation organizations
and individuals who both recognized its potential to dramatically
improve the current aviation system and who also worked tirelessly
for its adoption as the first phase of building the
Next-Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen). Among them
are the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, the Air Line
Pilots Association, the Cargo Airline Association, Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical University, the Federal Aviation Administration, ITT
Corporation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, NASA, MITRE Corporation,
UPS, and many others. For more information about ADS-B please go
towww.adsb.gov. ...

It's clearly impossible that a group of eminent experts such as these
should make a mistake and grant an award to a concept.

Marvelous.


Dan