601st CCTS Board Meeting, August 14, 2013
Canaveral Council of Technical Societies (CCTS)
Minutes of the 601th Executive Board Meeting
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
CCTS Board Room at 5:30 P.M.
Cape Royal Office Bldg., Suite 401
1980 N. Atlantic Ave., Cocoa Beach, FL 32931
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Attendance:
Dave Fleming
Bill Macdonald
Bill Allen
Steve Schneider
Laura Seward
Jim Johnson
Joanne Longo
Ken Bisnath
Joe Brown
Fred Martin
Carey Beam
Jim Lewis
Al Koller
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CCTS Past Chairman, AIAA-CCS (American Institute of
Aeronautics and Astronautics – Cape Canaveral Section)
CCTS Secretary, AIAA-CCS (American Institute of
Aeronautics and Astronautics – Cape Canaveral Section)
CCTS Chairman, MSRPI (Missile, Space and Range Pioneers,
Inc.)
PMI-SCC (Project Management Institute – Space Coast
Chapter)
CCTS Vice Chairman, NSS-FSDC (National Space Society –
Florida Space Development Council)
NAL-SCC (NASA Alumni League – Space Coast Chapter)
SCWID (Space Coast Women in Defense)
NMA-FSCC (National Management Association-Florida Space
Coast Council)
AACEi-NFS (Association for the Advancement of Cost
Engineering International – North Florida Section)
SAME-SCP (Society of American Military Engineers - Space
Coast Post)
SME-CFC (Society of Manufacturing Engineers – Central
Florida Chapter) (By Telephone Call In)
MSRPI (Missile, Space and Range Pioneers, Inc.) (By
Telephone Call In)
SpaceTEC (By Telephone Call In)
1.0 Introductions – Chairman – Bill Allen
A quorum was present and Bill Allen called the meeting to order at 5:38 P.M. Of note, we have
had a couple of Meetings of the 43rd Space Congress Planning Committee since our last CCTS
Meeting; those will be addressed later in the Program. Some new actions for CCTS direction,
which I have initiated, will be discussed later in the Program.
2.0 Vice Chairman’s Report – Laura Seward
No Report
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3.0 Secretary’s Report –- Bill Macdonald
The minutes of the July meeting had been e-mailed out and hard copies are available on the
table. After review, Jim Johnson Moved to approve the Minutes, as Submitted. Fred Martin
Seconded the Motion and the Motion was Passed.
4.0 Treasurer’s Report –- Rich Kiefer (In Absentia)
The Monthly Report was distributed.
The Opening Balance as of 7/11/13 was $5,170.76 and the Closing Balance as of 8/13/13 is
$4,598.49. As of 8/12/13, the Total Value of the Savings Account was $133,934.74. This
Balance, in the Checking Account, is to last through December 2013, and does not include any
money for special events, such as a Robotics Event or 43rd Space Congress and any seed money
withdrawn for those events has to come from the Savings Account. Bill Macdonald Moved that
we Receive the Treasurer’s Report. Joe Brown Seconded the Motion and the Motion Passed.
5.0 Society Announcements – ALL
5.1 Laura Seward -- NSS-FSDC is contacting Brig. Gen. Nina Armagno, Commander
of the 45th Space Wing, to be the Speaker at their September 7th Meeting. On Friday,
August 23rd, they are having a tour of the Space Life Sciences Lab in Exploration Park,
near KSC. On Saturday, October 12th, the NSS Southeast Regional Workshop, hosted by
the FSDC here is being put together by the North Texas, Huntsville Alabama and
Georgia, Chapters of NSS. It will consist of workshops in the morning and then with a
Community Wide Space Festival at the Hilton Hotel in Cocoa Beach followed by
Speakers, speaking on space related topics in the afternoon. FSDC will be reaching out
to other CCTS Member Societies to put up a Booth(s). This event will also be in
partnership with the MSRPI Banquet on Friday, October 11th and also in partnership with
SpaceUp Orlando, at the Orlando Science Center on Sunday, October 13th. On December
13th FSDC will be touring Craig Technologies.
5.2 Jim Johnson – The next NAL Meeting will be on September 17th, no Speaker has
been lined up as yet. Notices will be sent out on this event.
5.3 Dave Fleming -- An AIAA Council Meeting is scheduled for August 21st.
5.4 Ken Bisnath -- The NMA National Conference is in San Antonio, TX, September
5-9, 2013. FSCC has a new Chapter, the Florida Space Coast Chapter. FSCC plans to
support the 2nd Annual CCTS Space Coast Robotics event monetarily.
5.5 Bill Macdonald – AIAA has a tentative Meeting coming up on October 11th with a
co-sponsor, most likely MSRPI. Bill Allen noted that the Speaker might be either a
representative from United Launch Alliance, talking on “How to Man-rate the Atlas 5” or
Bob Sieck talking on “Lessons Learned from Apollo 13” and it is planned to be held at
the Hilton Hotel, in Cocoa Beach. FSDC also is going to be a partner at the October 11th
Dinner. SCWID were approached as a Sponsor; however, they have other commitments
for that date.
5.6 Steve Schneider – PMI-SCC had their every other Monthly Dinner on Monday,
August 12th. Their next Dinner will be in October.
5.7 Fred Martin -- SAME is having their Monthly Luncheon tomorrow, August 15th,
at Jack Baker’s Lobster Shanty, Cocoa Beach, at 11:30 AM with the Meeting starting at
Noon. He has been working with a brand-new Chapter of Engineers Without Borders
and Pri Thakrar, a Summer Intern at KSC, is preparing a Paper Presentation looking at
water sanitation projects in Kenya and Uganda.
5.8 Joe Brown -- NFS is having a tentative program on September 19th at Siemens in
Orlando. It will be a Panel Discussion on the Certification Process for AACE. A speaker
there will be one of the first certified cost engineers in Florida. More details will be in
the upcoming CCTS Calendar of Events.
5.9 Joanne Longo -- SCWID is having a Networking Event tomorrow night;
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however, reservations are now closed for that event. On Thursday, September 19th a
Breakfast Networking Opportunity and Meeting with Major General Marcelite J. Harris
will be held from 8:00-9:30 AM at The Tides, PAFB. Cost is $20 for members and $25
for guests. Harris’s tenure with the Air Force saw her become the first ever African
American Female General. More details will be in the CCTS September Calendar of
Events. Carol Craig, of Craig Technologies, will be speaking at an Evening Event on
October 17th at the Craig Technologies Plant in Cape Canaveral and it will start at 5:30
PM. Then back to the Beach House (former Officers Club), PAFB, with Col. Robert
Ament on November 14th, starting at 5:30 PM. The SCWID STEM Committee has been
engaged in collecting ‘Toys for Tots’, which will be given to a representative of that Toys
for Tots organization at that November 14th Meeting. The SCWID STEM Committee has
picked up several other partners in the Community; Space-X, eight High Schools and
Parents who are heavily involved with the Robotics Program, will be joining our STEM
committee.
5.10 Carey Beam -- SME has a tour of the Wind Tunnel at FIT, September 26th and
on November 21st is their Holiday Party and tour, but it not firm as to the its location.
5.11 Jim Lewis -- Orbital Sciences is being listed as a Speaker in Orlando at the Florida
Space Institute Space Tech September 5th. They are starting to plan a second live car
show with the Turkey Trot Run at Daytona Beach on Thanksgiving Weekend.
6.0 Old Business
6.1 Contacts with Societies Discussion – Bill Allen
Bill Allen has been talking to the TNT Creative Group, Tina Lange, President and
Owner, about branding and helping us with some third party facilitation of soul searching
for CCTS. Tina Lange, an expert consultant in aerospace matters, is preparing a letter to
send out to all of the CCTS Member Societies to get some feedback on things that are
important to them today and relevant to what they can use from CCTS to do certain
things. In a few day days, I’ll have a cut of that back and gather what is useful for
our current Societies today and we may even consider sending this to folks that we want
to induce to join CCTS when this is ready it will be sent to our Societies. Tell your
Boards and respective Societies to let them know that this request is coming and to
tell them that we really value their feedback from this. Then CCTS can refine its Mission
Statement accordingly. This will help us define what today’s world looks like, what is
important in today’s world and how we can positively affect today’s world in the role
that we are given as is relevant to our Member Societies. That all starts to flow
downhill as to how we structure our events, like Space Congress® and other events and
with whom we partner. When this data come back, we need to have a facilitated session,
either of this group or a committee thereof For example, in our 43rd Space Congress
discussing, Jim Banke brought the aspect of our thinking down stream to the 50th
Anniversary of Apollo 11’s Landing on the Moon and really having a large week long
Event. Bill Allen mentioned that we could add an event to our 43rd Space Congress and
gradually add more events each year to arrive at this weeklong festive event. Joe Brown
commented that we should make sure that NASA and the Air Force are aware of this as
they have contributed heavily to our Space Congresses® in the past. When this Member
Societies assessment of what is important for them in a CCTS organization is finalized,
Bill Allen has a list of some 20 organizations that he feels might want to be member of
CCTS. Carey Beam noted that one thing that we need to convey to our Member
Societies is that we are to host a virtual Job Fair to be held around the Texpo Event of
October 8th using Brevard Workforce’s model designed for that event and we need the
Member Societies to promote this virtual Job Fair Nation-wide, through their National
Organizations, as this will be a benefit to the Societies to draw people in to this Space
Coast Area, who might be looking for a career change or a move for their family. If
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our Societies are struggling with membership, this is one way to help get members into
the area and it would also help show that CCTS has the power, through their Member’s
National Organizations, to reach many thousands of technically minded individuals and
start educating them about career opportunities here on the Space Coast, the great way of
life here and the wonderful knowledge base here, and also bringing in the businesses to
support those jobs, which is important. Carey Beam said that we are going to contact
those companies in this area using the list that Bill Macdonald supplied of some 72 high
tech and aerospace companies in the Area, to see if they would like to participate in the
virtual Job Fair maybe at a cost of $50 per company. Bill Allen mentioned that, in
addition to the increased focus on aero in the Area, we will want to have another focus on
aerospace manufacturing.
7.0 Committee Reports
7.1 By-Laws – TBD
No Report
7.2 Publicity – Bill Allen
See Item 6.1. Also, Bill Allen appointed Carey Beam and Jim Lewis to Co-Chair the
CCTS Publicity Committee.
7.3 Outreach Education, Projects – Dr. Jim Johnson
Jim Johnson spoke to LaDonna Netterer at the Space Club Meeting and she agreed to put
on the NAL web site, announcements of the upcoming CCTS Robotics Event. The NAL
monetary check in support of that event, will be mailed to the CCTS Office by September
13th. As an additional note, Bob Sieck gives a great presentation, he doesn’t use many
pictures, but relies on word charts, he is an educator, he like to speak to young people and
to schools; high schools or college level. He talks about all three major failures that
NASA had: Apollo 13, Challenger and Columbia and how to fix some of those problems
and what not to forget as you go along in your work. I also received a letter from
Brevard Schools Foundation thanking us for our donation of $250 for Space Week.
Maybe, in the future we could donate it through the NAL, as at their Meeting they show
everybody who donates on a chart and as there are 350 people there, that would see
“CCTS donates”; that might be helpful in getting our CCTS name before other people.
7.4 Membership – Bill Allen
7.4.1 New CCTS Society Submittals
Bill Allen appointed Laura Seward to be the CCTS Membership Chairman.
Laura Seward has a list of 24 potential Society members, received from Bill
Allen, to whom she will make contact proposing CCTS Membership. Dave
Fleming mentioned that he has contacted the Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
about re-joining CCTS, but no response has been forthcoming as yet. Fred Martin
suggested that Engineers without Borders-Space Coast Florida Professional
Chapter, would be good to contact – they are a dependency of ASCE. Bill Allen
noted that some of these potential Societies may not want to join CCTS, but we
should consider partnering with them in some fashion in what they do.
7.4.1.1 Society for Technical Communication (STC)
Dave Fleming has been in contact with Karen Lane, the President of the
Orlando Central Chapter of STC, and she has appointed Sarah Baca to
take on the work of sending a letter asking to join CCTS. Sarah Baca has
been on vacation - no application has been received as of yet. Bill
Macdonald brought out that Dawnell Claessen has already been appointed
to be the Primary Representative and Karen Lane to be the Alternate
Representative to the CCTS Executive Board.
7.5 Long Range Planning and Goals - ALL
See Item 6.1.
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7.6 Other Conferences and Seminars - ALL
7.6.1 43rd Space Congress Planning Committee Meeting – Jenissa Garcia
Bill Allen noted that the 43rd Space Congress Planning Meeting was held
yesterday. It was decided to revise the previously submitted 2-day schedule of
events. The dates of the Congress were finalized to be April 24-25, 2014.
Joanne Longo mentioned that we have not finalized the venue as yet, as more
information on costs and facilities is needed. The virtual Job Fair will be done in
coordination with Texpo on October 8th. Bill Allen mentioned that we also have
the chance to participate, as a sponsor, in an Eastern Range Evolution Discussion
at FIT on November 1st. In the morning session there will be presentation by the
45th Space Wing and the FAA Commercial Space Office and by a horizontal
launch operator and vertical launch operator. In the afternoon, there will be a
panel session on what the Range might look and feel like in moving forward.
There will be no cost to CCTS, but we should gain some visibility. A Luncheon
will be held and the speaker is planned to be George Whitesides of Virgin
Galactic. This will kick off at the Melbourne Airshow that will have a Party at
the FIT Hanger, Melbourne International Airport on the evening of November 1st.
7.6.2 Future Robotics Event Planning – Dave Fleming
The next Meeting of the Robotics planning Committee will be August 28th here.
The meeting includes representatives of the FIRST™ organization and of various
member teams. The Second Annual CCTS Space Coast Robotics Day will be
held on Saturday, October 5, 2013, from 9 AM to 3 PM at Roosevelt Elementary
School, Cocoa Beach. A new feature, this year, is to have a series of workshops
for the high school students: one on Computers, one on higher level Robotics,
one on a launch experiment going to the International Space Station and with
Dave Fleming doing one on Composites. The number of CCTS Member
Societies sponsoring the Event includes INCOSE, AFCEA, AIAA, NAL as well
as CCTS itself. It is hopeful that we will have more publicity this year, to get
more professionals through the door to interact with the Students.
Carey Beam mentioned that the Art & Algorithms Festival in Titusville, October
4th to 13th, is looking for live demonstrations and Robotics would fit in fine with
that Festival. Jim Lewis thought that maybe having a cross promotion might be in
order; like the Robotic Teams might have a table or a poster to put-up at the
Festival and promote the Art & Algorithms Festival at the Robotics Competition
at Roosevelt Elementary ßchool. Dave Fleming mentioned that CCTS has
pledged an amount of money to this Robotics Event this year, but that amount still
has to be drawn from the CCTS Savings Account.
7.7 Awards – Bill Macdonald
No Report
7.8 Management and Budget – Dr. Jim Johnson
No Report
7.9 New Projects – ALt
None
8.0 Special Committee Reports
8.1 Computer/Web Site - Dr. Al Koller
Al Koller mentioned that our web site got hacked over the last weekend and he has put in
a triple selection of software to keep it from happening again. But to clean it up, I had to
remove all the users some real, some fake. We did not lose anything, but we were
vulnerable, but I think with this added selection of software, we won’t be vulnerable
again.
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8.2 Orientation – TBD
No Report
8.3 Historian – Bill Macdonald
Bill Macdonald said that we now have the up-to-date names for Chairmen of CCTS and
General Chairman of Space Congress® on the plaques here on our wall,
8.4 Hospitality – TBD
No Report
8.5 Investments – Dick Russell (Not Present)
No Report
8.6 Condominium – Dick Russell (Not Present)
No Report.
8.7 Office – TBD
8.7.1 Telecommunication Wi-Fi Router, Use of Skype -- Robert Shaw
Bill Allen indicated that we now have Wi-Fi, here in the Office. Bill Macdonald
mentioned that it is Bob Shaw’s own personal account; we do not have a CCTS
account as yet.
8.8 Grants – TBD
No report
9.0 New Business
None
10.0 Adjourn
There being no further discussion, it was Moved to Adjourn by Jim Lewis and Seconded by
Fred Martin and all Approved. The Meeting stood Adjourned at 7:15 PM.
NOTE: The Next Meeting of the CCTS Executive Board is scheduled for Wednesday, September
11, 2013, at 5:30 PM.
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