Established in 1977 by Hughes Helicopters to honor the memory of Howard Hughes, this award is given in recognition of an outstanding improvement in fundamental helicopter technology. This year’s honoree is the Higher Harmonic Control Aeroacoustic Rotor (HART) Test & Analysis Team comprised of Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Duits-Nederlandse Windtunnel (DNW), Office National D’Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales (ONERA), U.S. Army Aeroflightdynamics Directorate (AFDD), and NASA Langley.