1. AIAA Space and Missiles Group Annual Report
Technical Activities Committee Meeting
January 6, San Diego, CA
Peter Montgomery
Director, Space and Missiles Group

2. Education, Outreach, and Publications
SMG Summary
Group Overview
Forum Support
Group Director: Peter Montgomery
Deputy Directors: Jeff Puschell, Karen Barker, and Scott Jensen
AIAA Space and Astronautics Forum
AIAA Defense and Security Forum
Honors & Awards
Number of Committees: 14
Responsibility for 10 awards (in the process of combining two awards to drop this total to nine.)
Low Space Transportation (even)
Haley Space Flight (even)
Space Automation and Robotics (odd)
Space Operations and Support (odd)
Space Sciences (even)
Space Systems (all)
von Braun Space Program Management (all)
Space Processing Award (odd)
Missile Systems Award – Management (all)
Missile Systems Award – Technical (all)
Top 4 Accomplishments
Successfully stood up the AIAA Defense Forum
Successfully pulled Resp. Sp. into Space Forum
Supported dev. of NSS Sp. Settlement Roadmap
Almost 50 papers to Space Arch. comm. this yr!
Education, Outreach, and Publications
National Student Essay Competition (Middle School). Essays in Aerospace America online.
STEM High School Teacher Awards
Revisions for two AIAA space ed. textbooks
Student Design Competitions (Reliable and reusable space transp. vehicle)

3. SMG Leadership Team Director Peter Montgomery Deputy Director
Jeff Puschell
Deputy Director
Karen Barker
Deputy Director
Scott Jensen
SARTC
David Spangler
MSTC
Darren Hayashi
SATC
Ondrej Doule
SCTC
Ron Kohl
WSETC
Peter Dunn
SOSTC
John Hughes
LSSTC
Kevin Duda
SSTC
Daniel Kwon
STeTC
Keith Fuhrhop
SReTC
Christian Andersen
SLTC
Eric Jackson
STTC
James Knauf
SmSTC
Andrew Santangelo
MSPTC
Steven Collicott

4. SMG Leadership Team Additional Responsibilities
DIRECTOR
Peter Montgomery
Deputy Director
Jeff Puschell
Deputy Director
Karen Barker
Deputy Director
Scott Jensen
Member Services
Knowledge Services
Products
Honors and Awards
Public Policy
Collaboration
Mentoring Program
Lessons Learned
Innovation
Working Group
Responsibilities Across SMG
Lunch and Learns
SMG Initiative Leadership

5. Opportunities/Best Practices To Share
Very strong STEM outreach activities at all levels
Middle School National Student Essay Competition (essays published in Aerospace America online)
STEM High School Teacher Awards
University Student Design Contests
Aggressively pursuing capture / partnership with space conferences outside the Space Forum
Integration of former Responsive Space Conference authors / materials into AIAA Space 2015
Co-sponsorship of SpaceOps and Space Tethers international conferences
Standing up Mentorship, Lessons Learned, Lunch and Learn, and Innovation Working Group activities (Ongoing SMG Initiatives)

6. Issues/Concerns/Challenges For TAC Action
Strengthen PC / TC engagement and collaboration
Improved communication of ongoing PC / TC activities
Encouraged opportunities for PC / TC engagement
Improve TC communication / meeting resources
Speakerphones and WebEx for TC meetings
New approaches to engaging TC members still under tight travel restrictions
Continue exploring space conference partnerships
Space Tech Expo (May 2016 in Long Beach)
International Space Tethers Conf. (Co-sp. req. submitted)
Continue improving Forum networking opps.
Bring back Speaker Breakfasts to encourage participation
Add coffee break meeting locations for networking