Dr. Barry Boehm Award for Best Presentation

To recognize Dr. Barry Boehm’s significant contributions to GSAW as a principal investigator, a founding member, an advisory board member, a long-time participant, and several other roles, the best presentation award will be renamed the Dr. Barry Boehm Award for Best Presentation in memory of Dr. Boehm who passed away in 2022. This best presentation award recognizes outstanding work by plenary presenters on their technical content, oral presentations, and contributions to ground systems community. The award recognition will be given on Thursday, February 27, 2025.

---

We are excited to announce the GSAW 2026 Nominees for the Dr. Barry Boehm Best Presentation Award. These nominees have showcased outstanding innovation, clarity, and impact in their presentations. Now, it’s your chance to help us recognize the best of the best!

How to Cast Your Vote:

1. Make Your Choice: Consider innovation, content clarity, and overall presentation excellence as you decide which nominee deserves the award.
2. Submit Your Vote: Click on VOTE NOW to cast your vote. Voting is quick, easy, and your input is invaluable to us.

Your opinion matters! Voting closes on Thursday, Feb.26 at 7:15 A.M., so be sure to make your voice heard before then. Thank you for participating and helping us honor outstanding achievements in presentation excellence!

---

2023 Dr. Barry Boehm Award for Best Presentation

Breaking the Malthusian Paradigm: Modernizing the USSF Satellite Control Network (SCN) Enabling Capacity Shawn Sawyer, Tane Yingling, and Eric Koppisch, United States Space Force

2024 Dr. Barry Boehm Award for Best Presentation

Exploring Ground Segment as a Service (GSaaS) as a Commercial Alternative to Traditional Distributed Architectures Lydia Adair, John Heskett, and Austin Cooner, KSAT Inc.

2025 Dr. Barry Boehm Award for Best Presentation

Artificial Intelligence for Mission Operations Automation Roadmap: The European Space Operations Centre Updates and Vision Gabriele De Canio, Evridiki Ntagiou, Federico Antonello, and James Eggleston, European Space Operations Centre, European Space Agency

2026 Dr. Barry Boehm Award for Best Presentation

Engineering Software Systems Without “Systems Engineering” Nadim Nakhleh, Lockheed Martin