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AIAA Announces 2025 Election Results

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

April 1, 2025 – Reston, Va. – The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) has released the results of its recent elections. The newly elected AIAA officials will take office in May.

“We are proud to announce the newest AIAA leaders who will play key roles in serving our members and advancing the Institute,” said AIAA President Daniel Hastings. “I am grateful to each of the candidates for their willingness to lead important activities that benefit our profession. Their service is essential to the smooth functioning of the Institute. Congratulations to our new leaders.”

Read about all members of the Board of Trustees here. Read about all members of the Council of Directors here.

2025 ELECTION RESULTS FOR BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Dana “Keoki” Jackson, The MITRE Corporation, was chosen as AIAA President-Elect for 2025-2026. He will serve as AIAA President 2026-2028.

In January, the Board of Trustees elected three Members-At-Large:

  • Michael Gazarik, University of Colorado Boulder
  • Tina Ghataore, Aerospacelab
  • Jill Marlowe, Retired

Ben Linder, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, also was elected to fulfill an unexpired term.

2025 ELECTION RESULTS FOR COUNCIL OF DIRECTORS

Integration and Outreach Activities Division (IOD)

  • Chief: Jeanette Domber, BAE Systems
  • Director–Aerospace Outreach Group: Sofia Russi, Denmar Technical Services
  • Director–Integration Group: Abdollah Khodadoust, The Boeing Company
  • Director-Elect–Young Professionals Group: Nathan Crane, Advanced Development Programs, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics

Regional Engagement Activities Division (READ)

  • Director–Region IV: Ellen Gillespie, Jacobs Engineering
  • Director–Region V: James Guglielmo, Boeing Defense, Space & Security

Technical Activities Division (TAD)

  • Director–Information Systems: Michel Ingham, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  • Director–Propulsion & Energy: Rusty Powell, Axient

Media contact: Rebecca B. Gray, [email protected], 804-397-5270

About AIAA
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is the world’s largest aerospace technical society. With nearly 30,000 individual members from 91 countries, and 100 corporate members, AIAA brings together industry, academia, and government to advance engineering and science in aviation, space, and defense. For more information, visit aiaa.org, or follow AIAA on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, or Instagram.

Aerospace: Collaboration Makes It Soar

Panelists: Moderator: John Tracy, chief technologist, The Boeing Company; Morteza Gharib, California Institute of Technology; Dana “Keoki” Jackson, chief technology officer, Lockheed Martin Corporation; Sandy Magnus, AIAA executive director; Darryll Pines, Dean, Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland College Park; Jaiwon Shin, associate administrator, aeronautics research mission directorate, NASA; Steve Walker, deputy director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

By Duane Hyland, AIAA Communications (2008–2017)

Collaboration and cooperation are critical to driving future growth in aerospace science and technology, according to a Jan. 7 panel of experts at the 2016 AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition in San Diego.

The panel, “Aerospace Frontiers — Strengthening Collaboration for Continued Progress,” looked at how nexuses are built among professional, government, industry and academic organizations and how these collaborations drive growth in the industry.

Sandy Magnus, AIAA executive director, explained that professional organizations like AIAA provide a platform for the aerospace community to come together to allow the discussions to advance the industry.

“We use conferences such as this to do that,” Magnus said.

The other panelists expressed appreciation for what professional societies do and highlighted what their organizations do to promote communication and collaboration across boundaries.

Darryll Pines, Farvardin professor and dean of the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland, also said that now is a great time for engineering.

“Over 500,000 engineers are working in the U.S. today,” he said, stressing that platforms like conferences and professional societies are vitally important to the exchange of ideas.

The representatives of industry on the panel highlighted the importance of the academic community in providing the future workforce as well as opportunities for vital research and development partnerships.

“We need the ideas that come out of university research programs, and those are the people who will continue to generate these ideas,” said Keoki Jackson, chief technology officer at Lockheed Martin.

Each of the panelists identified the same barriers to professional growth for today’s engineers: budgets; burdensome government regulations; resistance from middle-management in industry to allow conference attendance; and a misunderstanding of the nature of science and technology conferences.

Steve Walker, deputy director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, said that one of his unique barriers is obtaining capable program managers that can leave their academic careers for two to five years to run DARPA’s programs.

Ongoing communication with lawmakers and others would eventually help erode these barriers, panelists said.

In the end, all of the panelists agreed that what AIAA and other professional societies do is extremely vital to the entire science and technology enterprise.

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