FROM THE CHAIRMAN
Welcome to the new Vertical Lift Consortium website. The folks at ATI helped revamp the site to make it more attractive, more accessible and to help it become a cutting edge resource for the vertical lift industry. It has a new look and feel, more comprehensive search capabilities and more user friendly, intuitive site navigation. The website features a calendar of industry events, member company spotlights, new member profiles, program news, and future funding opportunities under our Other Transaction Agreement. We’ve also revised the Members Only site to include improved search capabilities so that you can more easily find past meeting and event information, and company specific drop boxes that allow for private storage and submittal of proprietary information.
The improved VLC public website and members-only sections are the first steps in our efforts to work more effectively with our customers to provide vertical lift solutions to our warfighters. Our ultimate vision is for the VLC to become the cohesive national resource that Government customers can use to find innovative technologies, fill critical vertical lift needs, invigorate the U.S. industrial base, and retain our international competitive edge.
Whether you are currently a member of the VLC or are contemplating membership, we hope that you will find this new web site a useful resource. We look forward to the future of the VLC and believe these changes will help to move us toward our goal of being the collective voice of the vertical lift industry to our government customers.
Nick Lappos
Chairman of the Vertical Lift Consortium Board of Directors

NICK LAPPOS
VLC Chairman
Lockheed Martin/ Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
Class: OEMs

KENDALL GOODMAN
AVX Aircraft Company
Class: Small VTOL

KURT FULLER
Bell Textron
Class: Large OEMs

MG (RET) RUDY OSTOVICH
Parker Ostovich & Associates
Class: Other Contractor

ROBIN PREATOR
The Boeing Company
Class: Large OEMs

RONALD LUKOW
BAE Systems
Class: Large Contractor

INDER CHOPRA
University of Maryland
Class: Academic/Nonprofit

CHRIS MACFARLAND
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.
Class: Large Contractor

PROF. JVR PRASAD
Georgia Tech
Class: Academic/Nonprofit

JOHN STOUGH
Exocubic
Class: Other Contractor

LAYNE MERRITT
Intellisense Systems, Inc.
Class: Supplier

WILLIAM MORRIS
GE Aviation
Class: Engine

ANGELO COLLINS
Vertical Flight Society (VFS)
Class: VFS

RYAN SCOBLE
Collins Aerospace
Class: Supplier

BRENDAN KELLY
Northrop Grumman
Class: Large Contractor

JOHN PIASECKI
Piasecki Aircraft Corporation
Class: At-Large

JERRY WHEELER
Wheeler Business Solutions, Inc.
Class: At-Large

JOHN VANNOY
Strata- G Solutions LLC
Class: Other Defense Contractor

TOM von ESCHENBACH
Parry Labs
Class: Supplier
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Nick Lappos Chairman
John Piasecki Vice-Chairman
Rudolph Ostovich Committee Member
VLC-AMTC BOARD REPRESENTATIVES
John Stough
MG (RET) William Gayler
Paul Dudley
TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE
Rudy Ostovich
Kendall Goodman
Jerry Wheeler
Angelo Collins
Rudy Ostovich
MOSA COMMITTEE
Thomas Von Eschenbach
Brendan Kelly
John Piasecki
John Stough
Layne Merritt
Nick Lappos
Paul Dudley
Ron Lukow
COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE
Nick Lappos
John Stough
Mike Hirschberg
Inder Chopra
GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
John Piasecki
Keith Flail
Mike Barbera
Mike Hirschberg
AGILITY PRIME COMMITTEE
John Piasecki
John Stough
Mike Hirschberg
Nick Lappos
Paul Dudley
Rudy Ostovich