{"id":32911,"date":"2025-09-28T01:36:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T01:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=32911"},"modified":"2025-09-28T15:10:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T15:10:58","slug":"nasao-concludes-successful-94th-annual-convention-announces-newly-elected-board-of-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/nasao-concludes-successful-94th-annual-convention-announces-newly-elected-board-of-directors\/%20","title":{"rendered":"NASAO Concludes Successful 94th Annual Convention, Announces Newly Elected Board of Directors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Photo &#8211; NASAO\/Shahn Sederberg<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nasao.org\/\">National Association of State Aviation Officials<\/a> (NASAO) concluded its 2025 Annual Convention and Trade Show in Anchorage, Alaska held Sept. 21-24, 2025, drawing more than 400 attendees and representatives from 36 states, NASAO leadership called the event a resounding success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNASAO\u2019s 94th annual meeting again provided a valuable opportunity for state aviation agency leaders to confer with their FAA partners on critical policy issues and discuss the safe integration of emerging technologies into the National Airspace System,\u201c said Greg Pecoraro, NASAO President and CEO. \u201cIt also afforded them an opportunity to engage with leading members of the aviation industry to learn about new developments, technologies, and techniques for managing common challenges faced by states and airports that are critical to ensuring safety throughout the system.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAlaska\u2019s Department of Transportation and Public Facilities was thrilled to host our sister state aviation agencies here in Anchorage this week\u201d said Troy LaRue, Operations Manager of Statewide Aviation. \u201cFor this year\u2019s theme, we suggested \u2018Navigating New Frontiers\u2019 to help us showcase how aviation has been critical not just to communities here in Alaska, but has created a path to exploring our world, developing new technologies, and tying together our vast nation. I\u2019m extremely proud of our host team from Statewide Aviation and the Alaska International Airport System who helped plan the event and worked tirelessly. Their dedication, along with the incredible collaboration from the NASAO team \u2013 truly the best team to work with \u2013 made this event so successful. It is an extreme honor to host and serve this group and I&#8217;m so pleased to be one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The four-day event featured trade show floor demonstrations and exhibits, keynote addresses from Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities Commissioner Ryan Anderson, P.E., and Deputy Commissioner, Katherine Keith, PMP, PMI-ACP, as well as panel sessions, and networking opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2025-2026 Board of Directors<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NASAO state members also elected the 2025-2026 NASAO Board of Directors. Clayton Stambaugh, deputy director for aeronautics at the Illinois Department of Transportation, began his tenure as NASAO Board Chair on Sept. 24. The NASAO Board of Directors is comprised of NASAO\u2019s Executive Committee and Regional Directors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Executive Committee<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Clayton Stambaugh, Illinois Department of Transportation \u2013 Chair<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Frank Farmer, Alabama Department of Transportation \u2013 Vice Chair<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bryan Budds, Michigan Department of Transportation \u2013 Treasurer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Colette W. Edmisten, A.A.E., Georgia Department of Transportation \u2013 Secretary<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Marty Blake, Indiana Department of Transportation \u2013 Immediate Past Chair<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Regional Directors<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Jeremy Borrell, Nebraska Department of Transportation \u2013 Central Region<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Greg Campbell, Virginia Department of Aviation \u2013 Eastern Region<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ryan Gaug, AICP, Minnesota Department of Transportation \u2013 Great Lakes Region<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Alan Lambert, Maine Department of Transportation \u2013 New England Region<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kenji Sugahara, Oregon Department of Aviation, Northwest Mountain Region<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>John Paul Saalwaechter, P.E., Tennessee Department of Transportation \u2013 Southern Region<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jessi Litz-Rowden, New Mexico Department of Transportation \u2013 Southwest Region<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Matthew Munden, Arizona Department of Transportation \u2013 Western-Pacific Region<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Future Conventions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2026 NASAO Annual Convention and Trade Show will be held Sept. 13-16 in Grand Forks, North Dakota, followed by Atlanta, Georgia in 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo &#8211; NASAO\/Shahn Sederberg The National Association of State Aviation Officials (NASAO) concluded its 2025 Annual Convention and Trade Show in Anchorage, Alaska held Sept. 21-24, 2025, drawing more than 400 attendees and representatives from 36 states, NASAO leadership called the event a resounding success. \u201cNASAO\u2019s 94th annual meeting again provided a valuable opportunity for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,90,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-news-release","category-state-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alaska-2025-NASAO-Shahn-photo-edit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32911"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32915,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32911\/revisions\/32915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}