2012 The Technical Cooperation Program (TTCP) Award recipients
Nineteen past and present Defence Science and Technology (DSTO) staff members were recognised for their international collaboration in 2012.
See below for DSTO recipients within each category.
Aerospace systems
Awarded for contribution to the collaborative development of a handbook of best practice in aircraft structural teardown.
- Kevin Watters (QinetiQ)
- Tom Van Blaricum
- John Boyes (QinetiQ)
- Philip Jackson
- Steve Reed (dstl)
- Dr Niem Tri
- LTCOL Bede T. Galvin
- Ian Lloyd
Electronic warfare systems
Awarded for contributions demonstrating a novel approach to testing countermeasures to synthetic aperture radars:
- Irina Antipov
- Darren Bachmann
- Peter Juett
Land systems
Awarded for the effective creation of a The Technical Cooperation Program (TTCP) community of interest (scientific, medical and operational) aimed at mitigating battlefield trauma through a soldier-centric approach to survivability:
- Dr Mark Jaffrey
- Mr Marc West
- Mr Tom Radtke
- Lt Col Judith Spence (Joint Health Command)
- Squadron Leader Ken Kemp (RAAF)
Conventional weapons technology / Aerospace
Awarded for significant contribution towards maintaining intelligent customer status within TTCP nations to ensure the safe carriage and effective release of weapons from future platforms with internal weapon bays:
- Regina Blyth
Conventional weapons technology
Awarded for significant contribution towards development and application of modelling capability and hazards testing to understand and predict failure of solid rocket motors due to chemical aging:
- Mr Alex Ziegeler
Personal award
Awarded for longstanding and valuable service in the area of coatings technology:
- Dr Lindsay Wake
2011 The Technical Cooperation Program (TTCP) Award recipients
Twenty past and present Defence Science and Technology (DSTO) staff members were recognised for their international collaboration in 2011.
See below for DSTO recipients within each category.
Aerospace systems applications
Awarded for demonstrating the utility of integration technologies and processes to increase situational awareness throughout the chain of command and to reduce the potential for fratricide, collateral damage and civilian casualties:
- Dr David Cox
- Dr Niem Tri
- LTCOL Bede T. Galvin
- Ian Lloyd
Awarded for significant contribution to the development of a new and complementary real time databus protocol aimed at significantly reducing aircraft avionics modernisation costs while providing a two order magnitude increase to on-board data transmission capacity:
- Dr Noel Martin
- Mr Mark Davies
- Mr Grant Philp
- Dr Robert O'Dowd
Joint systems and analysis
Awarded for contributions to The Technical Cooperation Program (TTCP) collaboration in developing a TTCP Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Standards Guideline:
- Dr Peter Ryan
- Dr Maxwell Britton
Maritime systems
Awarded for excellence in the development and use of analytical tools and models for the evaluation and improvement of Maritime Force Protection, Maritime Security and Counter-Piracy Operations conducted by TTCP naval forces against a range of asymmetric threats:
- Dr Bernard Kachoyan
- Mr Marc West
- Mr Piers Duncan
- Mr Paul Chircop
- Mr Tristan Cooper
Multi-sensor integration
Awarded for significant contributions in the investigation of multi-sensor tracking for improved Force Protection and Border Security Operations:
- Dr Neil Gordon
- Mr Travis Bessell
Signal and image processing
Awarded for a significant contribution to the development, advancement and demonstration of technology for autonomous wide-swath/fine resolution maritime surveillance incorporating Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR) image formation, with dissemination and exploitation of the radar/Automatic Identification System (AIS) information to users off-board the aircraft:
- Dr Brett Haywood
Acoustic sniper detection and localisation
Awarded for the joint collaboration in the advancement of gunfire detection capability for coalition forces:
- Dr Brian Ferguson
- Dr Kam Lo
2010 The Technical Cooperation Program (TTCP) Award recipients
Thirteen past and present Defence Science and Technology Organistion (DSTO) staff members were recognised for their international collaboration in 2010.
See below for DSTO recipients within each category.
Application of systems engineering to support operations and Defence acquisition
Awarded for demonstrating the ability to integrate modelling and simulation with real world coalition command and control (C2) systems, utilizing a systems engineering process, which has enabled the early demonstration of technology gaps and problems in planned acquisitions required to support ongoing operations in Afghanistan:
- Thea Clarke
- Dr Shari Soutberg
- Dr John O'Neill
- Dr Paul Gaertner
Measurement techniques for the characterisation of magnetostrictive and magnetic shape memory materials
Awarded for significant advances to the development and exploitation of novel magnetostrictive and magnetic shape alloy technologies for defence applications, thereby laying the groundwork for developing international acceptance standards and contributing to future substantial enhancement of military capabilities of the The Technical Cooperation Program (TTCP) member nations:
- Dr Scott Moss
Joint operating assignment corrosion health monitoring on aircraft
Awarded for exceptional scientific contribution to developing and assessing techniques for in-situ monitoring corrosion levels using a range of advance sensor types, and for developing the foundation for Structural Health Monitoring systems to be used in future military aircraft used by TTCP nations:
- Dr Bruce Hinton
- Mr Peter Trathen
- Dr Grant McAdam
- Dr Alan Wilson
Nondestructive evaluation of asset life extension and integrity
Awarded for world-leading collaborative research to develop and evaluate new model-assisted methods to quantify the probability of detection of defects using nondestructive inspections:
- Dr Geoff Hugo
- Dr Cayt Harding
Development of environmental tolerance values for Defence sites contaminated with energetic materials
Awarded for significant contributions to collaborative research to advance knowledge and understanding of ecotoxicology of energetic materials and to improve the ecological risk assessment of testing and training ranges at defense installations in TTCP nations:
- Dr Arthur Provatas
Personal award
Awarded for outstanding leadership, innovation and contributions to a wide variety of research activities in support of the Health Usage Monitoring (HUM) Group and TTCP over two decades:
- COL Peter Murphy PhD
