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2023
2023 Gold Medal for Scientific/Engineering Achievement
February 6, 2024, Washington, D.C. — Six ITS and three Office of Spectrum Management engineers and researchers were honored with the 2023 U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal for Scientific/Engineer...
2021
The ITS peer-nominated, peer-adjudicated "internal" awards are a decades-old tradition to allow ITS employees to recognize contributions made by their colleagues during the prior fiscal year that they...
2020
Douglas Boulware, Michael Cotton, Justin Haze, Bradley Eales, Todd Schumann, Adam Hicks, John Ewan, Max Hollingsworth, and Peter Mathys shared a Bronze Medal Group Award for leading the four-year deve...
The ITS Audio Quality Research Program has been pursuing a quest for accurate real-time measurements of speech quality and intelligibility for decades. In FY 2020, Principal Investigator Stephen Voran...
2019
Twelve ITS staff were honored with the Department of Commerce Bronze Medal Award for achievements in fiscal year 2019. Dr. Roger Dalke received a 2019 Bronze Medal Individual Award for transferring de...
2018
Ten ITS staff were recognized with a DoC Bronze Medal Award for work performed in fiscal 2018. Kristen Davis received a 2018 Bronze Medal Individual Award for improving the way NTIA telecommunication...
2016
2016 Silver Medal Award for Scientific/Engineering Achievement
September 27, 2016 Stephen D. Voran and Andrew A. Catellier of ITS were honored today with the Department of Commerce (DoC) Silver Medal Award for designing and executing a highly compressed speech in...
Seventeen ITS staff members shared four DoC Bronze Medal Awards for work performed in FY 2016. The Bronze Medal is a Department of Commerce Honor Award granted by the head of an operating unit or Secr...
2015
2015 Outstanding Publication Awards
On September 20, 2016, ITS researchers Paul McKenna and Margaret Pinson were presented with ITS Outstanding Publications Awards for works published in calendar year 2015. McKenna was honored for his c...
2014
Bob Johnk, Jaydee Griffith, and Mitchell Powell of ITS received a Department of Commerce Silver Medal Award for Scientific/Engineering Achievement for developing and using an innovative approach to me...
“Subject bias: Introducing a theoretical user model,” a paper co-authored by Professor Lucjan Janowski of the Department of Telecommunication at AGH University of Science and Technology, (Kraków, Pola...
2014 Gold Medal for Scientific/Engineering Achievement
Frank Sanders, Robert Achatz, John Carroll, Michael Cotton, Roger Dalke, and Geoffrey Sanders of ITS, along with Robert Sole of NTIA’s Office of Spectrum Management, were honored with a Department of...
2014 Outstanding Publication Award
Michael Cotton and Roger Dalke were honored by their peers with the ITS Outstanding Publication Award in the NTIA Report category for their NTIA Technical Report TR-14-500, "Spectrum Occupancy Measure...
2013
Chris Behm Chris Behm received a DoC Bronze Award for outstanding scientific and engineering achievement for rapidly developing and steering through standardization a new reference implementation of I...
The National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC) honored two ITS employees at their May 14, 2013 Committee Meeting in Washington, D.C. ITS engineer Andy Thiessen received the 2013 DJ Atki...
2013 P25 Certificate of Appreciation
February 13, 2013 The P25 Steering Committee today presented a Plaque and Certificate of Appreciation to ITS engineer Randy Bloomfield for his long-standing commitment and numerous contributions over...
2013 Outstanding Publication Award
Margaret Pinson and Arthur Webster received the ITS Outstanding Publication Award in the Outside Publication category for a paper entitled “The History of Video Quality Model Validation,” presented at...
2012
2012 Bronze Medal + Certificates
Bronze Medal Award Michael Cotton and Geoffrey Sanders received a Bronze Medal Award for their rapid development and deployment of a system to measure radar spectrum occupancy in support of the Presid...
2012 NPSTC Atkinson Technical Award
June 20, 20112 The National Public Safety Telecommunications Council recently announced the establishment of the Atkinson Technical Award in honor of ITS senior engineer David (DJ) Atkinson, whose Apr...
2012 Gold Medal for Scientific/Engineering Achievement
An interdepartmental team from ITS and the NTIA Office of Spectrum Management (OSM) received a Gold Medal Award in the category of Scientific/Engineering Achievement for work performed in FY 2012. Act...
2012 ATIS Outstanding Contributions Award
May 11, 2012 ITS senior engineer Tim Riley received an Award for Outstanding Contributions to an ATIS Forum or Committee during the 2012 ATIS 9th Annual Meeting of Committees in April. This award is p...
2010
2010 Silver Medal for Scientific/Engineering Achievement
A cross-divisional team of ITS and NTIA staff was selected in FY 2010 to receive a Department of Commerce Silver Medal in the category of Scientific/Engineering Achievement. The group was recognized f...
Three ITS staff were awarded Department of Commerce Bronze Medals for their outstanding work in FY 2010. Ms. Carol VanStory received a Bronze Medal for Personal and Professional Excellence in providi...
2010 Outstanding Publication Awards
Two publications were selected in 2010 for the ITS Outstanding Publication Award. Outside Publication: Stephen Voran and Andrew Catellier for the work presented in their paper, “Multiple-Description...
2008
2008 Gold Medal for Project 25 Inter–RF Subsystem Interface Test Tool Development
Three staff members from the PSCR (Public Safety Communications Research) program received a group Gold Medal in the category of Scientific and Engineering Achievement from the U.S. Department of Comm...
2007
2007 Silver Medal for Personal and Professional Excellence
In November 2007, Jeffery Wepman of the Spectrum and Propagation Measurements Division was part of an NTIA team awarded the Department of Commerce Silver Medal, the second highest honor given by the D...
2006
2006 Silver Medal for Scientific/Engineering Achievement
THREE LOCAL ENGINEERS RECEIVE HIGH HONORS FROM U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Boulder, Colo. - Three staff members of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Institute for...
2006 Gold Medal for Enhancement of Public Safety Communications
Researchers Receive Department of Commerce's Highest Honor for Enhancement of Public Safety Communications A team of ten staff members from the PSCR program and National Telecommunications and Informa...
2006 Outstanding Publication Award
Outstanding Publication Award (NTIA publication): NTIA Report TR-06-444,"Effects of RF Interference on Radar Receivers," by Frank H. Sanders, Robert L. Sole, Brent L. Bedford, David Franc, and Timothy...
2005
2005 Silver Medal for Scientific/Engineering Achievement
FOUR LOCAL ENGINEERS RECEIVE HIGH HONORS FROM U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Four staff members of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Institute for Telecommunication...
2005 ATIS Distinguished Service Award
OCTOBER 24, 2005, LAS VEGAS - The Alliance for Telecommunications Solutions (ATIS) today announced the winners of its annual awards program, recognizing industry subject matter experts for their contr...
2004
2004 Silver Medal for Scientific/Engineering Achievement
Three Local Engineers Receive High Honors from U.S. Department of Commerce Three staff members of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Institute for Telecommunicatio...
2004 FLC Outstanding Laboratory Award
The Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) has named the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS) in Boulder, Colo., as a 2004 Outstanding Laboratory, at its annual Mid-Cont...
2002
2002 IEEE Harry Diamond Memorial Award
Dr. Hans Liebe of Boulder, Colo., has been selected as the 2002 recipient of the Harry Diamond Memorial Award, the highest recognition for technical achievement given by the 235,000-member United Stat...