Pioneer awards

The AESS Pioneer Award announcements and awardee contributions with details of their award have been transferred to this title from our sister publication, the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace & Electronic Systems - TAES, starting with the 2012 award, which was contained in this SYSTEMS Magazine, AESM 28, 5, May 2013. The 2011 Awardee, James V. Leonard, was announced on the cover of the October 2011 issue of AESM; his contributions concerning details of the award, although prepared, have not yet been received for publication; they will appear when released. A history of the Pioneer Award will be found on page 41 of the May 2013 issue of SYSTEMS together with a listing of all prior awards.