The NextGen Institute is pleased to announce the placement of 9 of its members as Working Group Co-chairs for the Joint Planning and Development Office's NextGen Initiative. The establishment of Industry co-chairs is a step in furthering the improvement of the government/industry partnership by providing an equal platform for ideas and solutions to be brought to executive levels of the JPDO and parent agencies from within the industry sector.

After being selected by their Institute peers, the following individuals were approved by the Institute Management Council (IMC) Executive Committee, to be the Industry Co-chairs for their corresponding Working Groups:

Airports - Tom Browne

Environment - Howard Aylesworth

Global - Mike Marsili

Net Centric Operations - Gene Hayman

Safety - Paul Russell

Security - Paul Druckman

Weather - Steve Brown

Air Navigation Services - Robert Beard

Aircraft - Dave Nakamura

The Institute would like to thank all the nominees for participating in this process, and to again congratulate the new Industry Co-chairs in their selection.