Ann Gallagher address the crowd following acceptance of the E. Noel Luddy Award
Ann Gallagher was presented with the E. Noel Luddy Award for years of meritorious service to the telecommunications industry. Gallagher is an Electronics Engineer and Chief of the Cross Boarder, Negotiations and Treaty Compliance Branch in FCC’s International Bureau.
The award was presented November 20 at the Association of Federal Communications Consulting Engineers’ annual FCC Reception, held at the National Press Club.
In presenting the award, AFCCE Board Member Gary Cavell, a former boss, recalled that Ann Gallagher began work in broadcasting engineering with Jules Cohen & Associates in 1983. She subsequently worked for broadcast engineering firms duTreil, Lundin & Rackley and Lahm, Suffa & Cavell, and then for the Voice of America. Following an assignment as manager of engineering at Moffet, Larson & Johnson, she joined the FCC’s Audio Division in September 1999, where she worked mainly on AM and digital radio issues.
Cavell remarked on Gallagher’s helpfulness as the broadcast engineering community requested to have computational “method of moments” performance data accepted by the FCC as proof of proper performance of AM antenna installations.
Addressing the crowd of dozens of FCC colleagues, AFCCE members and guests, Gallagher thanked the AFCCE for bestowing the award and expressed admiration for her colleagues, noting some honed their extensive technical experience through industry assignments similar to her own.
Ann Gallagher joins an exclusive list of previous Luddy award winners that includes notables such as John Reiser, Jules Cohen and Bruce Franca. The E. Noel Luddy Award is presented annually by the AFCCE Board of Directors. Its winner is frequently, but not always, an FCC employee who has provided notable and exemplary service to the telecommunications industry. Noel Luddy was a lifelong radio enthusiast who was in charge of all communications throughout the South Pacific during World War II. He served for many years in several engineering capacities with RCA. With Dielectric’s acquisition of the RCA broadcast antenna business, he joined Dielectric as a consultant, serving as a liaison to broadcast station engineers, consulting engineers and the FCC. He is well known for his years of service on the AFCCE Board of Directors and was recognized numerous times for his contributions to the association and the broadcast industry. Dielectric continues to fund the E. Noel Luddy Scholarship in Noel’s honor.
The Association of Federal Communications Consulting Engineers is a membership organization comprised of engineers and other professionals engaged in telecommunications engineering. Its website notes that its main objective is to aid and promote the proper federal administration and regulation of those engineering and technical phases of communications which are regulated by the Federal Communications Commission.
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