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Craig R. Wanke Appointed Editor-in-Chief of AIAA’s Journal of Air Transportation

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 20, 2023 – Reston, Va. – The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) has selected Craig R. Wanke, Chief Engineer for MITRE’s Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD), and an AIAA Associate Fellow, as its new editor-in-chief for the Journal of Air Transportation (JAT). He succeeds Karl Bilimoria, an aerospace engineer at NASA Ames Research Center, who has served as the first editor-in-chief for JAT since 2016. The journal was originally published as the Air Traffic Control Quarterly by the Air Traffic Control Association (ATCA) between January 1993 and December 2015. Wanke will begin this new role as JAT’s second editor-in-chief in January 2023.

The AIAA Publications Committee oversees the search and selection effort for new editors-in-chief. This year’s search committee was led by Jacqueline A. O’Connor, Pennsylvania State University, Publications Committee member. Wanke was chosen from among a group of highly qualified candidates.

“Air Traffic Management (ATM) is in a period of rapid evolution, driven by innovations in new vehicles and new missions, advances in artificial intelligence, and the challenge of sustainability in a changing climate. JAT is a critical source for peer-reviewed, leading-edge ATM innovation, and it is a great honor to have been chosen as the editor in this exciting time,” said Wanke.

Wanke holds a Master of Science and Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Some of his accomplishments include leading the development, field testing, and technology transfer of several capabilities now deployed as part of the FAA’s operational traffic flow management system (TFMS). Wanke has served as Principal Investigator for many years on MITRE IR&D projects, and in addition to serving as the Chief Engineer of CAASD, he also currently leads the MITRE IR&D program in aviation and surface transportation. He was an Associate Editor of JAT from 2016 to 2022, and he also has authored or co-authored more than 100 journal and conference papers on air traffic management and various aeronautical engineering topics.

JAT is devoted to the dissemination of original archival papers describing new developments in air traffic management and aviation operations of all flight vehicles, including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and space vehicles, operating in the global airspace system.

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Call for Papers for F. Landis Markley Memorial Virtual Collection

On 5 December 2021, the guidance, navigation, and control community lost one of its most influential and well-regarded figures, F. Landis Markley. The clear and rigorous body of work that Markley contributed to the field has been foundational to the development of the theory and practice of attitude determination, as well as many other areas of spacecraft dynamics and control. From 1974, when he left theoretical physics, through well past his retirement in 2010, Markley was a mentor and a friend to generations of students, co-workers, and colleagues in the community.

In memory of Markley, the AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics (JGCD) will dedicate a Virtual Collection in his honor. The focus of the collection is specifically targeted to aspects of aerospace estimation, dynamics, and control applications to which Markley contributed, with a particular focus on spacecraft attitude applications. Please consider submitting a paper to this Virtual Collection (instructions below).

Markley’s influence is observable throughout the practices of our profession. He was particularly prominent in the development of innovative extensions, analytical tools, and operational software for the application of Kalman filtering, batch techniques, and covariance analysis to attitude estimation. He is the author of many classic papers in spacecraft attitude estimation, dynamics, and control. Markley was one of the principal contributors to the book Spacecraft Attitude Determination and Control (1978), which is a vital resource for practicing engineers to this day. In 2014, he was first author of the book Fundamentals of Spacecraft Attitude Determination and Control, which has become essential to the education of many astronautical engineers. For this body of work, his peers elected him a Fellow of AIAA in 1998 and of the American Astronautical Society (AAS) in 2007. He was awarded the 1998 AIAA Mechanics and Control of Flight Award, the 2005 AAS Dirk Brouwer Award, and the 2008 AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Award.

At the Computer Sciences Corporation (1974–1978), the United States Naval Research Laboratory (1978–1985), and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (1985–2010), Markley contributed to the designs of more than 20 space missions, most notably the Hubble Space Telescope, the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, and the James Webb Space Telescope. His work on these missions earned him the 1998 Moe Schneebaum Award—Goddard’s highest engineering award, two NASA Exceptional Service Medals (1994, 2005), and recognition as a Goddard Senior Fellow in 2000.

To Participate
To ensure consideration for inclusion, please submit papers no later than 31 October 2022. Authors must select the Virtual Collection “F. Landis Markley Memorial” during submission. Both full-length papers and engineering notes are welcome.

The editors will decide whether a submitted manuscript is in scope for this Virtual Collection. It is strongly advised that authors contact the editors for this Virtual Collection (see below) before submission to ensure the paper content meets the requirements of the Virtual Collection. If a manuscript is deemed not in scope for the Virtual Collection, the author will be notified and the manuscript will be considered by JGCD as a regular submission.

Please review these access instructions on the expected scope for papers and notes, preparing a manuscript, and the required AIAA style and format.

Questions?

For questions on the suitability of a manuscript and other questions related to the Virtual Collection, email the editors for this Virtual Collection: John L. Crassidis and Russell Carpenter.
For general questions regarding JGCD, contact Ping Lu, Editor-in-Chief of JGCD.
If you already have a manuscript under review by JGCD and would like to have it considered for the Virtual Collection, contact Dr. Lu with a copy of the request sent to Dr. Crassidis and Dr. Carpenter.

Olivier L. de Weck Appointed Editor-in-Chief of AIAA’s Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

December 21, 2021 – Reston, Va. – The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) has selected Olivier L. de Weck, Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics and Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an AIAA Fellow, as its new editor-in-chief for the Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets (JSR). He succeeds Professor Hanspeter Schaub of the University of Colorado Boulder, who has served as editor-in-chief for JSR since 2017. De Weck, the 11th editor-in-chief for JSR, will begin this new role in January 2022.

The AIAA Publications Committee oversees the search and selection effort for new editors-in-chief. This year’s search committee was led by Dr. Jacqueline A. O’Connor, Pennsylvania State University, Publications Committee member. De Weck was chosen from among a group of highly qualified candidates.

“The field of spacecraft engineering and astronautics is more dynamic today than it has ever been with novel technologies, methods, launches, and mission concepts emerging daily. JSR is a trusted source of truth for the industry. It is a great honor to have been chosen as its next editor,” said de Weck.

De Weck holds a Master of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics and a Ph.D. in Aerospace Systems from MIT. As a professor at MIT, he serves as co-director of the MIT Small Satellite Center and faculty co-director of the Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership (MIT GEL) Program and the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program (MIT UPOP). His research interests include systems engineering, astronautics and space logistics, and multidisciplinary design optimization. He studies how new technologies and designs enable the creation of complex systems such as vehicles, missions, and industrial ecosystems, how they evolve, and how they can be optimized over time. He also is the co-founder of Intelligent Action, Inc., and was also senior vice president for Technology Planning and Roadmapping at Airbus (2017-2018).

De Weck previously held positions as an associate editor of JSR (2007-2012) and as the editor-in-chief of Wiley’s INCOSE journal Systems Engineering (2013-2018). He has authored or co-authored four books and over 400 scholarly publications, and won 13 best paper awards since 2004. His book Engineering Systems: Meeting Human Needs in a Complex Technological World was the 2012 bestseller at the MIT Press. De Weck’s past honors include the Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising and the MIT Teaching with Digital Technology Award.

JSR is devoted to reporting advancements in the science and technology associated with spacecraft and tactical and strategic missile systems, including subsystems, applications, missions, environmental interactions, and space sciences.

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