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Communications Technology Laboratory

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Laura Sinclair Receives 2024 Arthur S. Flemming Award

Dr. Laura Sinclair is being recognized in the Applied Science and Engineering category for pioneering femtosecond free-space optical time

2024 - B. Stephen Carpenter Award---Robert Bohn

For leadership in establishing and managing an international team to develop a Beyond-5G testbed to advance global communication service and network federation.

2024 - George A. Uriano Award---Sarah Hughes, Danni Leicht, Terese Manley, Ellen Ryan

For creating and executing a business accelerator for communication innovations that enhance capabilities of first responders.

Tammy Lucas, John Nibarger, Peter Lowell, Daniel Schmidt

2024 - Bronze Medal Award---John Biesecker, Peter Lowell, Tammy Lucas, John Nibarger, Daniel Schmidt, Joel Ullom, Michael Vissers

For developing an innovative process to fabricate superconducting interconnects for circuits with applications in astrophysics and quantum science.

2024 - William P. Slichter Award---Richard Candell

For development of internationally adopted industrial wireless guidelines and associated measurement protocols and datasets.

2024 - Bronze Medal Award---Richard Candell, Karl Montgomery

For the advancement of transmission scheduling in wireless time-sensitive networks for industrial robotic control applications in manufacturing.

2024 - Safety Award---Donald Harriss, Lisa Soucy, Stephanie Layman, Terese Manley, Christopher Dennis

For creating and executing a safety plan for an uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) competition, enabling safe indoor flight of UAS prototypes during the event.

Dadfarnia and Drozdov - no photo for Sharp

2024 - Bronze Medal Award---Mehdi Dadfarnia, Serghei Drozdov, Michael Sharp

For developing an open-source manufacturing simulator that enables users to plan production and compare AI-based and traditional maintenance policies.

2024 - Excellence in Tech Transfer---Brian Washburn, Kevin Cossel, Laura Sinclair, Esther Baumann, Fabrizio Giorgetta, Ian Coddington

For the successful transfer of dual-comb spectroscopy technology to energy, climate, and agricultural industries.

2024 - Presidential Rank Award---Nada Golmie

Recognized with a Distinguished Rank for sustained extraordinary accomplishments.

2024 - Bronze Medal Award---Robert Bohn

For leadership in establishing and managing an international team to develop a Beyond-5G testbed to advance global communication service and network federation.

2024 - Distinguished Mentoring Award---David Wollman

For his exceptional guidance, commitment to fostering career development, and dedication to the NIST community.

2024 - Presidential Rank Award---Nada Golmie

Dr. Nada Golmie, a NIST Fellow and globally recognized expert in wireless communications, has made significant contributions advancing U.S

2023 - Bronze Medal Award---Chiehping Lai, Nada Golmie

For measuring seasonal variations of the radio wave attenuation characteristics of vegetation at 60.5 GHz for use in international standards.

2023 - Gold Medal Award---Organizational Representative: Dereck Orr

For developing and executing a $300 million R&D program to enable the advancement of public safety communications technology.

2023 - Bronze Medal Award---Jason Coder

For development of the revised IEEE/ANSI C63.27 standard that modernizes wireless-coexistence evaluations for new technologies and applications.

2023 - George A. Uriano Award---Anita Balachandra, David Gundlach, Paul Hale, Kevin Jurrens, R. Joseph Kline, Timothy McBride, Sanjay Rekhi, David Seiler, Sivaraj Shyam-Sunder, Ndubuisi George Orji

For positioning NIST and DOC to successfully implement core CHIPS for America Act programs to revitalize U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing.

2023 - Bronze Medal Award---John Beltz, Gary Horwarth, John Libert, Kenneth Ko, Bruce Bandini

For the successful advancement of mobile fingerprint capture technology in support of law enforcement field requirements.

2023 - Director's Award for Excellence in Administration---Mildred Glick, Terry Sorcek, Lucy Tedesco, Misty Roosa, Melissa Banner, Kim Stavish, Brian Copello, Dawn Hurley, Veronica Kinard, Kimberly Goode

For development of the Administrative Management Portal to centralize precise training and resources for the NIST administrative management community.

2023 - Bronze Medal Award---Jeffrey Shainline, Jeffrey Chiles, Adam McCaughan, Sonia Buckley, Adriana Lita, Anna Fox, John Biesecker, Manuel Castellanos-Beltran, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam

For the monolithic integration of superconducting single-photon detectors with Josephson junctions for advanced computing and single-photon metrology.

2023 - Bronze Medal Award---Nader Moayeri

For collecting a set of BLE RSSI data and evaluating the performance of various proximity detection methods to blunt the spread of infectious diseases.

2023 - Silver Medal Award---Kristen Greene, Shanée Dawkins, Yee-Yin Choong, Mary Theofanos, Scott Ledgerwood, Kerrianne Buchanan, Susanne Furman, Kevin Mangold, Adam Pintar

For giving a vital voice to U.S. first responders' communication technology needs in law enforcement, firefighting, and emergency services.

2022 - Arthur S. Flemming Award---Ellen Ryan

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2022 - Colleagues' Choice Award---Linda Derr

For innovation in the Boulder Professional Research Experience Program (PREP) enhancing growth, stakeholder communication, and collaborative research.

2022 - Allen V. Astin Measurement Science Award---Dazhen Gu, Aaron Hagerstrom, Benjamin Jamroz, Jeffrey Jargon, Christian Long, Ann F. Monke, Eric Stanfield, Angela Stelson, John Stoup, Dylan Williams

For developing rigorous traceability with correlated uncertainties for microwave power and scattering parameters at 5G/6G communications frequencies.

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