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At PDES, Inc., we are thankful for our members who provide the direction and resources to facilitate the development and implementation of information standards that support the model-based enterprise. While we are grateful that we have made significant progress in reducing interoperability costs, addressing quality issues, and enabling the archiving and retrieval of product data, we are working diligently to increase the capabilities of these standards into areas such as persistent identifiers and digital twins.

Photo: Tom Kramer receives Brian K. Martin award from PDES General Manager Allison Barnard Feeney, CEO and Board President Dr. Michael Jahadi of Lockheed Martin Company

The winner of the 2025 Brian K. Martin Technical Excellence award is Tom Kramer of Nvariate. Tom has contributed to both the Persistent Identifier Vendor and User sub teams, as well as performing data review for the CAx-IF. Tom is often sought out by his colleagues for advice due to his technical expertise in the areas of Quality, Universal Unique Identifiers (UUIDs) and Persistent Identifiers (PIDs). His knowledge in these areas guided the user story development process for the PID project focusing on the needs of the Quality Manager requirements.

Because Tom is a recognized expert in both QIF and UUID,  he has played a significant role in several critical publications, such as NIST AMS 300-12, Research Results and Recommendations for Universally Unique Identifiers in Product Data Standards, where he provided pivotal feedback as a domain expert reviewer.

Photo: Asa Trainer receives Brad Rigdon award from PDES General Manager Allison Barnard Feeney, CEO and Board President Dr. Michael Jahadi of Lockheed Martin Company

The 2025 Brad Rigdon Technical Management Award winner is Asa Trainer, retired from ITI, a Wipro company. Over the past year, Asa has served as the leader of the Vendor Group for the Persistent Identifier project. His role in the integration and consistent use of Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs) across  multiple engineering domains, enabled him to lead the development and testing of UUID implementation within the CAx-IF culminating in the work on Research Results and Recommendations for Universally Unique Identifiers in Product Data Standards (NIST AMS 300-12, July 2024), which addresses key gaps and provides industry-wide guidance.

The expertise gained in the UUID work has enabled Asa to clearly identify, understand, and communicate the different approaches to PID implementation and helped PID team understand how capabilities are tested in the CAx-IF, ensuring that the PID capabilities will be tested and implemented in future editions of the ISO 10303 standard.