Rocky Mountain Section General Meeting December 10, 2009

Agenda 5:30 – 5:45pm – Meet/greet (free pizza) 5:45 – 6:00pm – General Meeting – Section business Scholarship Application Mini-Urban Challenge 2010 Elections 6:00 – 6:30pm – Keynote Speaker – Dr. Mark Crews – ADS-B and how GPS supports this concept 6:30 - Adjourn

Section Business Scholarship – Information and application form is on RMS-ION website – Looking to award for Fall 2010 (or sooner) Mini-Urban Challenge – To design and build a robotic unmanned LEGO MindStorm car that can autonomously navigate through a mock LEGO city – Competition Participants: High School students Regional plus National Competition – Need coordination team to prepare for 2010 participation 2010 Elections – Nomination process is open to all; send nominations to – Elections will be held at January meeting – Terms begin February 1, 2010 – The By-Laws are available on the RMS-ION website Misc. Topics – Open discussion Next Meeting – January 28, 5:30pm Keynote Speaker: Dr. Penina Axelrad (2009 Kepler Award winner from ION) Location still TBD

Keynote Speaker Mark Crews – Former GPS chief engineer at GPSW in Los Angeles, CA – Currently Chief Technology Officer with ITT Space Systems in Colorado Springs ADS-B and how GPS supports this concept – ADS-B, or Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast, is a key component of the FAA’s GPS satellite-based NextGen program, intended to replace the nation’s aging network of ground-based radar sites in the air traffic control system. – The new system as designed will be 10 times more accurate than radar, according to the FAA. ADS-B uses GPS signals to determine aircraft position. The code containing a plane’s flight data is automatically broadcast from the aircraft’s transponder once per second. Aircraft equipped to receive the data and ADS-B ground stations up to 200 miles away receive the broadcasts. Ground stations add radar-based targets for non-ADS-B-equipped aircraft to the mix and send all of the information back up to equipped aircraft, along with information on weather and flight restrictions. This data displays on cockpit screens and air traffic control displays.