HFICD Newsletter

Save the Date: 2026 ANS Annual Conference

May 31- June 3, 2026

Denver, CO

We are excited to announce to the members of the HFICD information regarding the 2026 ANS Annual Conference. Please mark your calendars now, and join us in Denver, CO May 31 thru June 3, 2026. As a member of this division, please consider submitting a paper on your efforts in our field. We encourage you to be a part of this experience, and we are looking forward to seeing you there!

Newsletter Overview

Dear HFICD Members,

It is a great privilege and honor to serve as the 2025-2026 chair of our division. It is an exciting time to be in nuclear and a part of HFICD, and I am grateful to be tasked with a small role to help the industry at large and our Human Factors and I&C community as we navigate the wave of momentum our industry is experiencing. One of the ways our division is preparing for the future is by actively looking at ways we can improve our processes and evaluating new ways to serve our members. This effort was formally started earlier this year by my predecessor Dr. Ron Boring, who as chair established a formal "HFICD Improvement Committee" which is being spearheaded by Dr. Ahmad Al-Rashdan. This was a key step for our division's future, and I sincerely appreciate Ron and Ahmad's leadership in this effort.

One of my key goals for the year as chair is to take the recommendations being developed by this committee and help to ensure successful implementation. As an I&C person, I've noticed that like transmitters or temperature sensors, we as people and organizations have a tendency to drift. When that happens, we need recalibrating, and things like this improvement committee are the nuts and bolts of how that recalibration happens. I won't spoil all the suggested changes here, but I am excited to see what the next year has in store and I'm grateful to play a small part in helping prepare the division for the opportunity our industry has in front of us.

I'd be remiss to not express gratitude for a few others in this column. First, I want to sincerely thank Dr. Vivek Agarwal, who leads our program committee and all the tireless work he and so many others put into the NPIC&HMIT 2025 conference to make it successful. I'd also like to thank Dr. Anna Hall, who has graciously taken over the communications committee and is already doing an excellent job, as seen in this edition of the newsletter!

To conclude, I encourage you all as we approach the new year to be thinking about ways that you can increase your involvement and participation in HFICD. If there is an area that you think could be improved, please do let us know as we are actively trying to ensure the division continues to serve as the premier venue for Human Factors and I&C involvement.

Adam Deatherage
HFICD Division Chair 2025-2026

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