finalists
Aeronautics/Propulsion
- Chinese Air Force
- Eurocopter X-3 team
- Navy Secretary Raymond Mabus
- Speed Agile-Powered Lift System Concept demonstration team
- Art Thompson, Project Leader, Red Bull Stratos project
Business/General Aviation
- Walter Fricke, AirBoss, Veterans Airlift Command
- Ron Henriksen, Chairman and CEO, LOGIX Communications
- Sen. James Inhofe
Commercial Air Transport
- Richard Anderson, Chairman and CEO, Delta Air Lines
- Alex Cruz, Chief Executive, Vueling Airlines
- Mark Dunkerley, Chief Executive, Hawaiian Airlines
- Shinichiro Ito, Chief Executive, All Nippon Airways
- Rusdi Kirana, President and founder, Lion Air Group
Defense
- Blue Devil ISR team
- Foxhound Light Patrol Vehicle team
- K-Max VTOL team
- Meteor development and test team
- Scorpion Helmet-Mounted Integrated Targeting System team
IT/Electronics
- Air Force Maj. Gen. (ret) Itzik Ben-Israel, head of Israel’s space agency
- Port Authority of NY-NJ, Honeywell, FAA Ground-Based Augmentation System team
- Rockwell Collins Head-up Guidance System team
- Ray Zanoni, principle engineering manager, Rockwell Collins
MRO (Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul)
- Boeing/Corpus Christi Army Depot team
- Alan Butterfield, Vice President, Maintenance & Engineering, Air Canada
- Louis J. Mancini, Senior Vice President, Commercial Aviation Services, Boeing
- Millville Modification Center team
Space
- Curiosity Mars rover
- Elon Musk, Chief Executive, Space Exploration Technologies
- Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and CEO, Arianespace
- Operationally Responsive Space-1 Satellite Team
Workforce
- Marion Blakey, President and CEO, Aerospace Industries Association, and Susan Lavrakas, Director, Workforce, AIA
- Ralph Coppola, Director, Worldwide Education Parametric Technology Corp.
- William Possel, Director of Mission Operations & Data Systems, Laboratory of Atmospheric & Space Physics University of Colorado, Boulder
Lifetime Achievement
- C. Don Bateman, former Chief Engineer, Flight Safety Systems, Honeywell
