A Fresh New Start for Chapter #1 of ITEA
ITEA was established in 1980 and its first Chapter was the Southern Maryland Chapter located in Patuxent River, Maryland. This year marked a new start for the Chapter and a re-birth of its leadership. With the assistance of Mr. Ed Greer, Mil Corp, a life long ITEA member, the Chapter took on the task of re-building its presence in Southern Maryland. With the election of their new President, Dustin Robinson, Vice President, Nicolas Mouriski, Secretary, Ryan Selph, and Treasurer, Jeffrey Miller, they hosted their first highly successful luncheon with guest speaker Ms. Debra Salamon, Executive Director, Mission Systems and DAiTA Group, NAVAIR.
The Chapter leaders are currently designing their Scholarship program to enhance the future T&E workforce and hope to have their first recipient in 2025. If you are a member of Chapter #1 contact them to learn how you can get involved! chapter1@itea.org
Resetting the Orlando Chapter!
The Chapter is on the cusp of re-engaging its members, electing officers, and developing a new scholarship program. With the assistance of Command Post Technologies and their new Orlando presence, CEO, Scott Bisciotti stepped up to be the Program Chair of a highly successful Cybersecurity Workshop in September at the Doubletree Hotel Sea World. With Dr. Mike Shields, Vigilant Systems, serving as the Technical Chair they created an outstanding program that earned their chapter several thousand dollars. Be on the look out for more information on the Chapter as well as the Cybersecurity Workshop being offered in September in New England. While they moved their location, Scott and his team will be instrumental in supporting this key event in 2025.
The George Washington and Hampton Roads Chapters Earned Scholarship Dollars by hosting the Inaugural AI in T&E Forum in 1st Quarter 2024
Hampton Roads Chapter President, Erwin Sabile of Booz Allen Hamilton and GW Chapter President, COL Rick Bailer (USA Retired) of EWA Government Systems Inc. are pleased to announce that their one-day AI Forum earned their Chapters $1500 to be put toward their respective Chapter’s scholarship programs.
The Channel Islands Chapter Earned $5000 After a Highly Successful Test Instrumentation Workshop in May 2024
Recently retired Navy Civilian and Channel Islands President, Gil Torres was pleased to learn that their chapter earned $5,000 for their scholarship program after Dr. Jean Paul “JP” Santos, TIW Program Chair, NAWC-WD Point Mugu, Airborne Instrumentation Systems Department and his planning committee, including his Technical Chair, Scott Kujiraoka, of GBL Systems (NAWC-WD Point Mugu) hosted over 300 attendees at the workshop in May.