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Award Winners

• Invention of the Year: Zhiyong Xia and Brad Ward for their novel water filtration membrane
• Government Purpose Innovation Award: Tim Magnani and Jay Song for an advanced radio frequency jamming prototype that provides more realistic representations of false targets
• Ignition Grant Prize: Awarded to Jason Johnson for collaborating on the design of an innovative one-piece suit that protects health care workers from the spread of deadly infectious diseases
• Mission Accomplishment Award for Current Challenge: Awarded to the New Horizons Core Mission Team — Peter Bedini, Kerri Beisser, Michael Buckley, Alice Bowman, Andrew Calloway, Christopher Hersman, Mark Holdridge, Valerie Mallder, Gabe Rogers and Harold Weaver Jr. — for executing this highly successful mission, on time and on budget, while exceeding mission requirements
• Mission Accomplishment Award for Emerging Challenge: Awarded to Preston Dunlap, Ashley Llorens, Thomas Falk, Ed Doran and Jeremy Sotzen for their work on a project that is impacting the Department of Defense’s programmatic investments, its mission planning, and upcoming exercises and tests to develop, assess and field new approaches to defeat these time-critical targets
• Enterprise Accomplishment: Awarded to Tom Heffner, Dennis Smith, Dave Nobles, Josh Smith and Don Noyes for building a cadre of staff members with the ability to employ Design Thinking methodologies to help find innovative and creative solutions to some of APL’s most daunting technical and organizational tasks
• The Alvin R. Eaton Award: Awarded to Scott Radcliffe for sustained performance and exceptional scientific or engineering innovations that have directly contributed to the security of our nation

Publication Awards

• Author’s First Paper in a Journal or Proceedings: William Gray Roncal and Dean Kleissas for “An automated images-to-graphs framework for high resolution connectomics,” published August 2015 in Frontiers in Neuroinformatics
• Outstanding Paper in the ����ֱ�� APL Technical Digest (The Walter G. Berl Award): Ralph Lorenz and Jennifer Mann for “Seakeeping on Ligeia Mare: Dynamic Response of a Floating Capsule to Waves on the Hydrocarbon Seas of Saturn’s Moon Titan”
• Outstanding Research Paper in an Externally Refereed Journal Publication: Alan Brandt and John Rottier for “The internal wavefield generated by a towed sphere at low Froude number,” published March 2015 in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics
• Outstanding Development Paper in an Externally Refereed Journal Publication: Kaushik Iyer and Doug Mehoke for “Interplanetary Dust Particle Shielding Capability of Spacecraft Multilayer Insulation,” published in the March/April 2015 issue of Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets
• Outstanding Professional Book: David Challener for “A Practical Guide to TPM 2.0: Using the New Trusted Platform Module in the New Age of Security”
• Outstanding Special Publication: Erin Hahn and William Lauber for “Legal Implications of the Status of Persons in Resistance”

Hart Prizes for Excellence in Independent Research and Development

• Best Research Project: Neurally Integrated Computing, with principal leaders Mark Chevillet, Michael Wolmetz, Matthew Roos, Christopher Ratto and Carlos Caceres Garcia
• Best Development Project: Enhanced Weapons of Mass Destruction Analytics, with primary contributors Aaron Katz and Michael Lieberman