Aviation Week & Space Technology - 3 November 2014

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sity’s Davis Aviation Center. The
retired U.S. Navy captain was
director of managed solutions,
and veterans program lead
with Incepture.
Keith Ruggirello has been
appointed vice president of the
Aircraft Management Div. of
Key Air, Oxford, Connecticut. He
was a regional executive with
Universal Weather & Aviation.
USAF Maj. Gen. John T.
Shanahan has been appointed
commander of the 25th Air Force
of Air Combat Command, Joint
Base San Antonio-Lackland,
Texas. He was commander of the
Air Force Intelligence, Surveil-
lance and Reconnaissance (ISR)
Agency at the base. Brig. Gen. (se-
lect) Peter J. Lambert has been
named vice commander of the
25th Air Force. He has been vice
commander of the ISR Agency.
Maj. Gen. Michael A. Keltz has
been appointed commander of
the 19th Air Force of Air Edu-
cation and Training Command, Joint
Base San Antonio-Randolph. He was
the command’s director of intelligence,
operations and nuclear integration. Keltz
will be succeeded by Brig. Gen. John
A. Cherrey, who has been its deputy
director for intelligence, operations and
nuclear integration for flight training.

HONORS AND ELECTIONS
Capt. Tim Canoll, a Delta Air Lines
MD-88 captain, has been elected presi-
dent of the Air Line Pilots Association. He
succeeds Capt. Lee Moak, who did not
seek reelection. Canoll has been execu-
tive administrator since 2011 and has
held positions on the ALPA Delta Master
Executive Council and national commit-
tees. Capt. Joe DePete, a FedEx Express
Airbus A300 pilot, was elected first vice
president. Reelected were Capt. Bill
Couette, an Embraer ERJ 145 pilot for
Envoy, as vice president–administra-
tion/secretary; and Capt. W. Randolph
Helling, a Delta Airbus A320 pilot, as
vice president–finance/treasurer.
John Tracy, who is Boeing’s chief
technology ofcer and engineering
leader, has won the 2014 International
Von Karman Wings Award. The Aero-
space Historical Society and Graduate
Aerospace Laboratories of the California

Who’s Where


Haitham Misto

D. DiDomenico

Andy Miller

Ken Collyer

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argus Rahuoja has been ap-
pointed the European Commis-
sion’s director of aviation and
international transport afairs. He is
head of cabinet for EC Vice President
Siim Kallas.
Keith Slotter has been named vice
president-security and Kevin Crissey
director of investor relations for JetBlue
Airways. Slotter was head of staf secu-
rity for Bridgewater Associates, West-
port, Connecticut, and had been chief of
the Financial Crimes Section of the FBI.
Crissey was founder/CEO of Skyline Re-
search and had been a senior equity re-
search analyst at UBS Investment Bank.
Capt. Haitham Misto (see photo)
has become acting president/CEO of
Royal Jordanian Airlines. He was head
of flight operations.
Axel Theis, CEO of Munich-based Al-
lianz Global Corporate & Specialty, has
been appointed to the Allianz SE board
of management with responsibility for
the global industrial insurance, credit
insurance and insurance businesses in
Ireland and Great Britain. He succeeds
Clement B. Booth, who is retiring from
Allianz. CFO Chris Fischer Hirs follows
Theis and will, in turn, be succeeded by
Nina Klingspor, who has been head of
the CEO Ofce for Allianz SE.
Andrew Hunter has been named
director of the Defense-Industrial Ini-
tiatives Group and senior fellow with
the International Security Program
at the Washington-based Center for
Strategic and International Studies. He
has been director of the Joint Rapid
Acquisition Cell at the Defense Depart-
ment and had been chief of staf to the
undersecretary for acquisition, tech-
nology and logistics.
Tony Marceddo has become head
of Northrop Grumman Australia’s M
Network Security. He was an executive
with Raytheon Australia and is a veter-
an of the intelligence and security fields
of the Australia Defense Department.
Andy Miller (see photo) has been ap-
pointed outreach program manager for
aviation at the University of Wisconsin,
Oshkosh. He has been an aviation educa-
tor, primarily for the Aircraft Owners
and Pilots Association Foundation Air
Safety Institute in Frederick, Maryland,
as well as several state aviation bureaus.
Matt Tuohy has been named direc-
tor of Jacksonville (Florida) Univer-


Institute of Technology present-
ed the award. Tracy was rec-
ognized for contributions over
a sustained period to technical
and engineering excellence in
the aerospace industry and for
leadership in advanced aero-
space structural and material
technologies for commercial
aviation, defense programs and
space systems.
Ken Collyer (see photos),
director of rotary-wing and
unmanned aerial systems elec-
tronic-warfare (EW) business
development, and Dominic
DiDomenico, an advisory sys-
tems engineer in the non-kinet-
ic system engineering depart-
ment, both for the Northrop
Grumman Corp., were honored at the
recent Annual Association of Old Crows
International Symposium and Conven-
tion. Collyer received the Stanley B.
Hall Business Development Award,
which recognizes performance in lead-
ing a government team that gains fund-
ing approval for a new EW program or
leads an industry team that captures
a competitive award of a new EW pro-
gram. He is engaged in advancing U.S.
Navy large-aircraft infrared counter-
measure programs; helping to identify
and implement solutions to replace the
U.S. Marine Corps EA-6 Prowler; iden-
tifying lower-cost, more-capable U.S.
Army EW solutions; and supporting
identification of EW payloads for U.S.
Air Force unmanned aerial vehicles.
DiDomenico received the Clark G. Fies-
ter Research and Development Award,
which recognizes achievement in the
research and development of new EW
capabilities. He is credited with leading
development of the Ofce of Naval Re-
search’s Integrated Topside Advanced
Development Model program. It uses
a common, modular, open and scalable
hardware and software approach to
perform EW and information functions,
and employs line-of-sight communica-
tions for shipboard applications. c

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