Awards for VMOC work within NASA

The VMOC demonstration team received a NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate Turning Goals into Reality award at a ceremony on 25 October 2005 at Great Lakes Science Center, Cleveland, Ohio. Video describing the VMOC testing work was put together by NASA and presented at the award ceremony.

• VMOC Net-centric initiative wins NASA award, Steven Staats, Schriever Air Force Base press release, 31 January 2006.
• NASA Honors Aeronautics Innovators, Katherine K. Martin, NASA Glenn press release 05-044, 26 October 2005.
• Photographs from the ceremony.

The work on demonstrating VMOC with CLEO garnered awards within General Dynamics, where the VMOC application was developed. Here Eric Miller of General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems is shown receiving, on behalf of the VMOC team:

• The General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems President's Technology Award (1 April 2005), which enabled Eric and the VMOC team to be nominated for...
• The General Dynamics Technology Excellence Award (5 May 2005), which they also won.

The VMOC team was nominated by Air Force Space Command for a 2005 Air Force Chief of Staff Team Excellence Award:

• AFSPC names its Chief of Staff Team Excellence Award winners, Catherine Jung, Air Force Space Command News Service, 22 June 2005.

Captain Brett Conner of the Air Force Space Battlelab, who was the project officer for VMOC, was recognised as the Gen. William "Billy" Mitchell Air Force Battlelab Project Officer of the Year for 2004.

• AF Space Battlelab chief scientist wins project officer of year award, Jean Van Allen, Air Force Space Command News Service, 22 July 2005.