The Advanced Navigation Technology Center at the Air Force Institute of Technology is pleased to announce that one of their professors was honored at the IEEE/ION Position Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS) in Monterey, CA, last month. Dr. Peter S. Maybeck was chosen as the recipient of the “Captain P.V.H. Weems Award” for his lifelong accomplishments in navigation education and research. The ANT Center consists of 21 faculty members, more than 30 students, and five staff members working on multiple vehicle autonomous navigation and control, non-GPS precision navigation, and robust GPS navigation.

Dr. Peter S. Maybeck’s contributions to the advancement of the art and science of navigation are almost immeasurable. As a professor of electrical engineering at AFIT, Dr. Maybeck has directly impacted every AFIT guidance, navigation, and control graduate student since 1973 (more than 500 Air Force officers). Dr. Maybeck has been directly responsible for AFIT’s graduate sequence in estimation and stochastic control and for individual advanced digital filtering and controls courses, research, advising of masters and doctoral research, and consulting for Air Force and DoD organizations. He is the author of more than one hundred technical publications on applied optimal filtering as well as the book Stochastic Models, Estimation and Control. He has also taught numerous short courses to hundreds of engineers in both industry and government organizations.

Dr. Maybeck has a long, sustained history of accomplishments and has been honored with numerous awards for both his teaching and his research. These awards span the past 40 years and range from being the 1985 Outstanding Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Nation to being made a Fellow of the IEEE and earning Best Presentation in Session awards for ION technical meetings.

Dr. Maybeck is a leading researcher, teacher, and practitioner in modern estimation and control theory in general, and specifically a pioneering figure in multiple model adaptive estimation and control theory and practice. Since 1977, Dr. Maybeck has also served as a consultant for the Air Force Research Laboratory and 46^th Test Group personnel to aid efforts in the area of Kalman filtering and multiple model adaptive estimation.

Dr. Maybeck received his B.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1968 and a Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1972, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After working for a year in the Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory at Wight Patterson AFB, he took a faculty position at the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1973, where he has been a leading faculty member for the past 34 years. He recently retired and continues to serve as a professor emeritus.