Official AOC Nominations & Elections Committee Report for 2022 Elections

The following information contains the Nominations & Election (N&E) Committee’s tabulated results of the 2022 Election held during September 2022. The results have been validated and are being presented to the International Association of Old Crows Board of Directors.

Thank you to all those who ran for an office this year, the quality of the volunteers and their dedication to the organization really shows how fortunate we are to have such outstanding leadership available to us.

Also, thank you to everyone that voted!

Total number of eligible voters – 11,369
Total members voted – 1,121
Percentage of Voters – 9.90%

At-Large Directors (eight candidates)
Two could be selected (% based on 200%)
Ken Dworkin – 36.04%
Haruko Kawahigashi – 30.95%
3rd Place – 24.62%
4th Place – 24.35%

International I (two candidates)
Erik Bamford – 72.63%

Pacific Region (unopposed)
Amanda Brockermeyer – 80%

Northwestern Region (unopposed)
Mark Schallheim – 86.84%

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Deadline to Send Updates: Monday, Oct. 17

As the end of the year approaches, we want to ensure your member listing information is up-to-date across JED media. Click here to review your member listing information on the JED Defense Electronics Resource Guide online and let us know if you have any updates.

If you are a brand new company, please look at how other companies provided us with their information, before reaching out to JEDeditor@naylor.com. The required information needed for listings includes:

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Please contact JEDeditor@naylor.com by Oct. 17 to update your member listing information to ensure accuracy before the listings are also published in the EW/SIGINT Resource Guide featured in the the December issue of JED.

Testing Your RWR - Accuracy Matters
Nov. 3 | 2-3 p.m. EDT

Accuracy is of the utmost importance when testing a radar warning receiver and maintaining the highest accuracy of your test system is essential. One is only as strong as the other or else you might be initiating countermeasures miles off-target. This presentation will explore how measurement errors and inaccuracies in your test system can compromise the effectiveness of an EW system. We will describe the calibration procedures that can be implemented to achieve higher EW system performance and traceability necessary for the assurance test and evaluation engineers seek.

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A malfunctioning South Korean ballistic missile blew up as it plowed into the ground Wednesday during a live-fire drill with the United States that was a reprisal for North Korea’s successful launch a day earlier of a weapon that flew over Japan and has the range to strike the US territory of Guam. (AP)

In a rare softening of hostile relations, the White House said Saturday that Venezuela freed seven Americans imprisoned in the South American country and the United States released two nephews of President Nicolás Maduro's wife who had been jailed for years on drug smuggling convictions. (NPR)