Nominations Open for FSF Leadership and Innovation Awards

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia — Nominations are now open for Flight Safety Foundation’s Jerome Lederer Safety Leadership Medal and the David Morrison Innovation Award. Both awards will be presented during a special awards dinner held in conjunction with the Foundation’s 78th annual International Aviation Safety Summit (IASS 2025) scheduled for Nov. 4–6 in Lisbon, Portugal.

The Jerome Lederer Safety Leadership Medal recognizes an individual or team for making a significant contribution to the advancement of civil aviation safety through demonstrated organizational or industry leadership and by developing or advancing programs that will have a lasting impact on aviation. Selection criteria include the nominee’s role as a strong champion of safety information–sharing and an advocate of developing and promoting safety standards, and broad recognition of the nominee as a safety leader.

The David Morrison Innovation Award recognizes an individual, a team, or an organization for notable technological innovation or process transformation in civil aviation. As part of the selection process, the Foundation would like to understand how the need was identified, what went into designing and developing the innovation or process change, and how collaboration played a role.

Lederer and Morrison were among the group of innovators who launched the Foundation in 1945.

The deadline for submitting nominations for both awards is June 27, 2025. More information on the awards and how to submit nominations is available on the Foundation’s website.

IASS 2025 is scheduled for Nov. 4–6 in Lisbon. Registration for IASS 2025 will open in June. Please visit  the Events page on the Foundation website for more information and to register.

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