Two senior officials from the Joint Functional Component Command for Space staff at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., were designated associate fellows by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Nov. 5, 2013.
U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Timothy Coffin, JFCC SPACE deputy commander, and James Rendleman, supervising attorney-advisor on operations, space and international law for JFCC SPACE, were two of 165 associate fellows in the AIAA class of 2014.
The AIAA is the world’s largest technical society dedicated to the aerospace profession. Created in 1963 by the merger of the two great aerospace societies of the day, the American Rocket Society and the Institute of the Aerospace Sciences, the AIAA carries forth a tradition of more than 80 years of aerospace leadership.
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