Organization

Membership

FPAW is open to anyone interested in aviation weather. We encourage everyone to join our vibrant community – it’s free! Active engagement with the aviation weather community at our biannual FPAW plenary meetings, ongoing participation in our issue-driven Tiger Teams, and assistance with the planning and execution of the FPAW plenary meetings is strongly and genuinely encouraged.

Leadership

The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and The MITRE Corporation (MITRE) are the current stewards of FPAW. Matthias Steiner (NCAR) and Matt Fronzak (MITRE) are the FPAW Co-Chairs.

Steering Committee

The FPAW Steering Committee (SC) consists of 15 members. Thirteen members act on behalf of the four key aviation weather stakeholder groups: four represent the users of aviation weather information, three represent the providers of aviation weather information, four represent the aviation weather research, engineering and development community, along with academia, and two represent the regulatory, standards, and policy oversight community. The FPAW Co-Chairs fill the remaining two positions.

Each member of the SC will actively solicit input from their constituents and use it to guide FPAW activities and discussion of important matters. The SC will also create, review and provide feedback on position papers intended to be published under the FPAW banner, and organize FPAW meetings. The FPAW SC meets regularly; in its first year of existence, it met on a near-monthly basis.

The initial FPAW SC selections were made by the FPAW Co-Chairs based on nominations received from the FPAW community. Significant attention was paid to incorporate diversity in its broadest sense, including but not limited to gender, race, organizational affiliation, expertise and career stage. The nominal term of service on the FPAW Steering Committee is three years, with an option to be reselected (no term limits). However, charter members were assigned terms of one, two or three years to facilitate regular turnover of about one-third of the thirteen rotating SC members annually.

In the Fall of 2023, four stakeholder group representatives were selected based on a simple majority of votes from all 15 current SC members for the nominations received. Two incumbent members, Eric Avila/NATCA (Users) and Jennifer Stroozas/NWS AWC (Providers), were reelected to the FPAW SC, along with two new members, Matt Johnson/Metro Aviation, Inc. (Users) and Rick Curtis/Collins Aerospace (RED & Academia).

The 2023-2024 FPAW Steering Committee is listed below: