Award Winning Service

AMA has been the recipient of numerous awards for excellence in service. Recent acknowledgements received by AMA and its personnel from NASA and other agencies include:

  • 2008 NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) Engineering Excellence Award (Erik Tyler)
  • 2008 MLAS Max Faget Engineering Excellence Award, "In Recognition of Innovative Engineering Solutions to Our Most Difficult Challenges". (Rob Calloway, Wind Tunnel Testing - Tim Shekoski, Mechanical Design - Aaron Horning, FEA Analysis)
  • 2008 Space Act Award for "AstroGlobe"
  • 2008 NASA Langley Team Center Award for CEV Alternate LAS (Tom Jentink, Brian Saulman, John Van Norman)
  • 2008 NASA Langley Team Center Award for ARES I Upperstage Composite Interstage (Tim Shekoski, Erik Tyler)
  • 2008 NASA Langley Team Center Award for Orion Vehicle Engineering and Integration (John Rogers)
  • 2008 NASA Langley Team Center Award for HSA Aero (Tom Jentink, Erik Tyler)
  • 2008 NASA Langley Team Center Award to the Lunar Architecture Team (Mark Andraschko, John Chrone, Bob Evangelista, Dave Helton, Chris Krentz, Gabe Merrill, Jeff Murch, Min Qu, Josh Sams, Mike Seal, Philip Su, Waqar Zaidi)
  • 2008 NASA Langley Team Center Award for the Lunar Lander Preparatory Study (Scott Angster, D.J. Caldwell, John Chrone, Dave Cornelius, Joe Del Corso, Dave Helton, Chris Krentz, Shawn Krizan, Gabe Merrill, Jeff Murch, Doug Murphy, Josh Sams, Time Shekoski)
  • 2007 Space Act Award for Invention Disclosure to SEE Version 2.0
  • 2006 NASA Group Achievement Award as a member of the “Hyper-X Flight 3” Team
  • 2006 NASA Group Achievement Award as a member of the “Broad Lunar Trade Study” Team
  • 2005/2006 Space Act Award for Invention Disclosure, Technical Brief, and Software Release to SEE Version 1.0
  • NASA HQ TGIR 2005 team award for the Hyper-X Flight 2 Project
  • Winner of the Virginia Peninsula Chamber of Commerce 2003 “Small Business Entrepreneur of the Year” Award
  • NASA HQ TGIR 2002 award for Pioneering Technology (Advanced Engineering Environment)
  • InfoWorld Recognition of the Advanced Engineering Environment as one of the world’s top 100 software innovations in 2002
  • EZopt©, our optimization software package profiled in the 2001 NASA “Spinoff” magazine
  • Winner of the Virginia Peninsula Chamber of Commerce 2000 “Technology Small Business Person of the Year.”
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