1. Rocky Mountain Section General Meeting December 10, 2009

2. Agenda • 5:30 – 5:45pm – Meet/greet (free pizza) • 5:45 – 6:00pm – General Meeting • Section business • Scholarship Application • Mini-Urban Challenge • 2010 Elections • 6:00 – 6:30pm – Keynote Speaker • Dr. Mark Crews • ADS-B and how GPS supports this concept • 6:30 - Adjourn

3. Section Business • Scholarship • Information and application form is on RMS-ION website • Looking to award for Fall 2010 (or sooner) • Mini-Urban Challenge • To design and build a robotic unmanned LEGO MindStorm car that can autonomously navigate through a mock LEGO city • Competition • Participants: High School students • Regional plus National Competition • Need coordination team to prepare for 2010 participation • 2010 Elections • Nomination process is open to all; send nominations to armstrong@infinity.aero • Elections will be held at January meeting • Terms begin February 1, 2010 • The By-Laws are available on the RMS-ION website • Misc. Topics • Open discussion • Next Meeting • January 28, 2010 @ 5:30pm • Keynote Speaker: Dr. Penina Axelrad (2009 Kepler Award winner from ION) • Location still TBD

4. Keynote Speaker • Mark Crews • Former GPS chief engineer at GPSW in Los Angeles, CA • Currently Chief Technology Officer with ITT Space Systems in Colorado Springs • ADS-B and how GPS supports this concept • ADS-B, or Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast, is a key component of the FAA’s GPS satellite-based NextGen program, intended to replace the nation’s aging network of ground-based radar sites in the air traffic control system. • The new system as designed will be 10 times more accurate than radar, according to the FAA. • ADS-B uses GPS signals to determine aircraft position. • The code containing a plane’s flight data is automatically broadcast from the aircraft’s transponder once per second. • Aircraft equipped to receive the data and ADS-B ground stations up to 200 miles away receive the broadcasts. • Ground stations add radar-based targets for non-ADS-B-equipped aircraft to the mix and send all of the information back up to equipped aircraft, along with information on weather and flight restrictions. • This data displays on cockpit screens and air traffic control displays.