1. AIAA Space and Missiles Group Annual Report
Technical Activities Committee Meeting
January 11, Grapevine, TX
Peter Montgomery
Director, Space and Missiles Group

2. Education, Outreach, and Publications
SMG Summary
Group Overview
Forum Support
Group Director: Peter Montgomery
Deputy Directors: Jeff Puschell, Karen Barker, and Scott Jensen
AIAA Space and Astronautics Forum
AIAA Defense and Security Forum 2016 – 2
Honors & Awards
Number of Committees: 14
Responsibility for 11 awards (in the process of combining two awards to drop this total to ten.)
Low Space Transportation (even)
Haley Space Flight (even)
Space Automation and Robotics (odd)
Space Operations and Support (odd)
Space Sciences (even)
Space Systems (all)
von Braun Space Program Management (all)
Space Processing Award (odd)
Jeffries Aerospace Medicine and Life Sciences Research Award (all)
Missile Systems Award – Management (all)
Missile Systems Award – Technical (all)
Top 4 Accomplishments
Successfully held second AIAA Defense Forum
Successfully grew Space Forum, exceeding KI
Successful leadership transitions strengthened and revitalized two previously struggling TCs
First International Conf. on Tethers in Space
Education, Outreach, and Publications
Growing number and participants in Undergrad. and Grad. Student Design Competitions (MSTC, LSSTC, SATC, SSTC, STTC)
Organized Global Networking Forum at IAC
STEM Awards / Middle School Essay Comp.
3rd Space Architecture Symposium (YP focus)

3. SMG Leadership Team Director Peter Montgomery Deputy Director
Jeff Puschell
Deputy Director
Karen Barker
Deputy Director
Scott Jensen
SARTC
David Spangler
MSTC
Darren Hayashi
SATC
David Wong
SCTC
Ron Kohl
WSETC
Peter Dunn
SOSTC
John Hughes
LSSTC
Kevin Duda
SSTC
Samantha Infeld
STeTC
Keith Fuhrhop
SReTC
Julie Kleinhenz
SLTC
Eric Jackson /
Koki Ho
STTC
James Knauf
SmSTC
Andrew Santangelo
MSPTC
Steven Collicott 3

4. SMG Leadership Team Additional Responsibilities
DIRECTOR
Peter Montgomery
Deputy Director
Jeff Puschell
Deputy Director
Karen Barker
Deputy Director
Scott Jensen
Member Services
Knowledge Services
Products
Honors and Awards
Public Policy
Collaboration
Mentoring Program
Lessons Learned
Innovation
Working Group
Blue = Responsibilities Across SMG
Lunch and Learns
Green = SMG Initiative Leadership 3

5. Opportunities/Best Practices To Share
Very strong STEM outreach activities at all levels
Middle School National Student Essay Competition (essays published in Aerospace America online)
STEM High School Teacher Awards
Growing number and participants in University Student Design Contests (Undergraduate and Graduate)
Continuing to build strong partnerships with space conferences and workshops outside the Space Forum (ex. ICES, IAC, Small Sat., Space Resources Roundtable, Space Ops Workshop)
Increasing TC Social Media Presence (LinkedIn, Facebook)

6. Issues/Concerns/Challenges For TAC Action
Strengthen PC / TC engagement and collaboration
Improved communication of ongoing PC / TC activities
Encouraged opportunities for PC / TC engagement
Utilization of TCs as resources for PC activities
Improve TC communication / meeting resources
Net-capable options for TC meetings
Speakerphones for meetings at AIAA conferences
WebEx capability for TC meetings
Continue improving Forum quality
Peer review of papers still requested by several TCs
More relevant cross-disciplinary papers and panels
Improved networking opportunities
Increase TC involvement in Growth Plan support