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Doolittle Award
Each year, SSP honors the memory of General “Jimmy” Doolittle, American war hero, aviation pioneer, and MIT graduate (SM ’24 and PhD ’25) with an awards lecture on a topic of aviation.
Doolittle Awards Lectures History:
4/17/2008, Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, MA
Thomas Christie,
Director of Operational Test & Evaluation (Ret'd),
U.S. Department of Defense
" What Has Acquisition Reform Wrought" and
"Did the AF Plan Its Aging and Dwindling Fighter Forces?"
4/19/2007, MIT Faculty Club
General Richard A. Cody, Vice Chief of Staff, United States Army
"Advances in Army Aviation"
5/13/2006, MIT Faculty Club
General T. Michael Moseley, Chief of Staff, US Air Force
"United States Advances in Airpower"
4/13/2005, MIT Faculty Club
General John P. Jumper, Chief of Staff of the US Air Force
“Transformation of the Air Force”
Link to Annual Report 2004-05 for more information
4/29/2004, Hotel@MIT
Paul Kennedy, Professor of History, Director of International Security Studies,
Yale University
“Air, Land and Naval Warfare in the Second World War: Reconsideration”
Link to Annual Report 2003-04 for more information
4/17/2003, MIT Faculty
Club
Alex Roland, Professor of History at Duke University
“America’s Military, Economic, Technological and Cultural
Involvement
with Manned Flight.”
Link to Annual Report 2002-03 for more information
4/22/2002, MIT Faculty Club
James G. Roche, Secretary of the Air Force
“State of the Air Force: Adapting Air and Space Power to National
Security
Requirements
in the 21st Century”
Link to Annual Report 2001-02 for more information
4/27/2001, The Royal Sonesta
Hotel, Cambridge, MA
Admiral James O. Ellis, USN, Commander in Chief NATO South
“The Use of Airpower in the Kosovo Intervention”
Link to Annual Report 2000-01 for more information
4/2000, The Royal Sonesta
Hotel, Cambridge, MA
Lt Gen Roger DeKok, USAF, Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Programs for
the Air Force
“Launching into the New Century”
Link to Annual Report 1999/2000 for more information
4/21/1999, MIT Faculty
Club
Lt Gen William Campbell, USA, Director of Information Systems for Command,
Control, Communications and Computers
“Unmanned Aerial Vehicles”
Link to Annual Report 1998-99 for more information
4/15/1998, MIT Faculty
Club
Professor Walter E. Morrow, Jr., Director, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
“Defense Research after the Cold War”
Link to Annual Report 1997/98 for more information
