Six Golds lead BAE Chairman's Awards

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Nov 20, 2006

Over 200 employees from throughout BAE Systems were rewarded for their innovative work at a glittering ceremony in Washington DC last week.

Over 200 employees from throughout BAE Systems were rewarded for their innovative work at a glittering ceremony in Washington DC last week.

The 2006 Chairman's Awards were presented by BAE Systems' Chairman, Dick Olver at the Stephen F Udvar-Hazy centre in the National Air and Space Museum.

The Chairman's Awards scheme recognises BAE Systems employees, colleagues and industry partners for outstanding and innovative ways in which they shape BAE Systems and contribute towards the success of the company.

Over 1000 awards were made in total, comprising six Gold, 54 Silver and more than 1000 Bronze awards.

The winners were selected from over 3000 nominations from across the company.

Olver said: "This year's winning entries represent the very best of BAE Systems' innovations and every year it is increasingly hard to select the Gold awards from so many outstanding entries".

"I am delighted that we have such committed and enthusiastic employees".

The awards are made in three categories: Innovation, Transferring Best Practice and Enhancing Customer Performance.

The Gold Awards for Innovation went to FAST Airborne Networking (Wayne, New Jersey, USA) - Flexible Access Secure Transfer (FAST) is a novel wireless networking protocol designed and implemented at BAE Systems for mobile ad-hoc networking in tactical operations; and Rapid Modular Approach to Autonomous UAVs (Warton, UK) - the team designed, built and tested three new Autonomous Air Vehicles, each in less than 10 months using innovative modular Systems and Airframe approach never tried before.

The Gold Awards for Enhancing Customer Performance went to: Protecting Coalition Lives with CMWS (Nashua, New Hampshire, USA); and Delivery of SURGE Aircraft Maintenance (Warton, UK).

And the Gold Awards for Transferring Best Practice went to: The Big Picture (Warton, UK); and Joint UAV Mission Manager Development (San Diego, California, USA and Cowes UK).