Thank You from the General Conference Chair!

Thank you for your attendance at this year’s 29th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC) in Salt Lake City. It is your continued attendance support of this conference and others like it that keeps our international avionics family close. The DASC continues to be one of my best networking tools and gives me an annual opportunity to refresh my knowledge on the state-of-the-art in airborne avionics systems and the ground systems that they integrate with. This year I had the opportunity to spend some quality time with many of my international counterparts, which gave me a better understanding of the global environment in which we all operate. I also took the opportunity to reflect on being “green” both in my day to day life and my strategic activities in our aerospace community so that we can all hand down a better planet to those that will follow us.

In order to continue this legacy of global cooperation, I would like to join Chris Watkins in extending a warm welcome to you for the 30th Digital Avionics Systems Conference to be held at the Renaissance Seattle Hotel in Seattle, Washington on October 16-20, 2011. We are again trying something new this year. The abstract submission site was opened during this year’s conference and will remain open until 1 March 2011. This is approximately four months ahead of when we have done this in the past. You are invited to submit abstracts of 750 words or less. Student papers and ideas for invited sessions are welcome as well.

In closing I, would like to thank the Conference Committee, volunteers, invited Plenary and Panel Speakers, authors, presenters, exhibitors, attendees, and of course, the hospitality of our team at the Hilton Salt Lake City Center Hotel for making the 29th DASC a memorable experience and I look forward to seeing each of you next year.

Tom Redling
29th DASC General Chair