Since 1959, TechAmerica Innovator Awards have been honoring pioneers in the tech industry--in particular, focusing on people who've contributed to the evolution of computer equipment, telecom equipment, consumer electronics, electronic components, software, clean tech, and the Internet.
This year, the annual award ceremony was held Tuesday, October 6, at the Fairmont hotel in San Jose, Calif. Here are some of the technologies that won top honors--and the people behind them.
Category: Clean tech
Innovator: Rob Mead, chief architect, Advanced Air Traffic Management, Boeing
Innovation: Tailored Arrivals
Sometimes, simple innovations can yield the greatest results. This year's clean-tech innovation award went to a technology called Tailored Arrivals, which was developed by Rob Mead at Boeing. Tailored Arrivals integrates all known aircraft performance, air traffic, airspace, meteorological, obstacle clearance, and environmental constraints expected to be encountered during an arrival into a singular system. It then calculates the most fuel-efficient and minimum-noise approach clearances to aircraft arriving at an airport to land, for the entire approach from cruise altitude to touchdown.
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