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2010 Bronze Medals
2010 – Three Bronze Medals Awarded to ITS Staff
Three ITS staff were awarded Department of Commerce Bronze
Medals for their outstanding work in FY 2010. Ms. Carol VanStory
received a Bronze Medal for Personal and Professional
Excellence in providing customer service to internal and
external clients, as well as automating and improving financial
reporting and accuracy. As a result of her efforts to resolve
procedural differences between federal agencies, ITS realized $5
million in new revenue from other federal agencies; her accurate
analysis and timely financial reports prevented budgetary
shortfalls in two divisions. Mr. Robert De Bolt received a Bronze
Medal for Scientific/Engineering Achievement in recognition of his
work developing the Communications Systems Planning Tool (CSPT)
that rapidly combines raw population data from Census sources with
radio propagation coverage data using unique algorithms developed
by Mr. DeBolt. The combined data is used to rapidly generate a
user-friendly raster-based graphical representation that shows the
number of people reached by a radio transmitter at a much greater
level of accuracy than was previously possible. Dr. Carolyn Ford
received a Bronze Medal for Scientific/Engineering Achievement in
recognition of her initiative and leadership of the Public Safety
Video Quality (PSVQ) team, which develped a working group and a
User's Guide to help Public Safety (PS) agencies match their video
needs to appropriate specifications, and to provide a
communications framework between PS agencies, researchers and
industry for the development and dissemination of past, current and
future research.

(left to right) Carol VanStory,
Robert DeBolt, ITS Director Al Vincent, Carolyn Ford.