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24th Air Force garners one of AFA's top awards
Posted 7/9/2012 Updated 7/9/2012
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by DENISE L. WAGGONER, Lt Col, USAFR
24AF
7/9/2012 - 7/9/2012 -- "Scientists discover the world that exists; engineers create the world that
never was." By Theodore von Karman
Air Force Association has selected two Air Force Space Command organizations
to receive the 2012 Theodore Von Karman Award for outstanding contribution to
national defense in the field of aerospace science and engineering: 24th Air
Force, headquartered at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, and the Engineering
and Integration Team, Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles, Calif.
In his congratulatory letter to General Shelton on the 24th AF's selection,
"We applaud their greatly successful efforts to extend, operate and defend the
Air Force portion of the Department of Defense network and to provide full
spectrum capabilities for the joint warfighter in, through and from
cyberspace," said AFA Chairman of the Board, S. Sanford Schlitt.
The award will be presented to 24th AF at a special ceremony on Sept. 17 at
the 2012 Air and Space Conference and Technology Exposition, Gaylord National
Hotel and Convention Center, Md.
Established in 1948, the Theodore von Karman Award is one of AFA's top awards.
Theodore von Karman was a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer
and physicist who was active primarily in the fields of aeronautics and
astronautics. He was responsible for many key advances in aerodynamics,
notably his work on supersonic and hypersonic airflow characterization. He is
regarded as the outstanding aerodynamic theoretician of the twentieth century.
Prior recipients include Dr. John F. von Neuman (1955), Clarence L. "Kelly"
Johnson (1963) and General Alton D. Slay (1979).
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