IDGA's NCW Awards

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NCW Awards

IDGA's NCW Awards™ have been established to honor, recognize, and promote initiatives in the US Department of Defense, Coalition Governments, and Defense Industry that exemplify the principles of network-centric operations and support information age transformation. To identify these leading programs and initiatives, IDGA enlists a distinguished panel of defense sector leaders to accurately and objectively evaluate the network-centric innovations that support our military operations. The winners exemplify the best in current initiatives and undoubtedly set new standards of excellence for incorporating this transformational concept into future work for the Department of Defense and its partners.

2010 NCW Awards™ Winners

Outstanding Government Program:

Winner: Jim Kelton, APM TAIS, Air Traffic Control Product Management Office, Tactical Airspace Integration System (TAIS)

Runner-up: J864 DF&S Team, USSTRATCOM/J864, Data Federation & Synchronization

Outstanding Industry Achievement:

Winner: Steve Zell, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Battlefield Airborne Communications Node Operational Readiness Demonstration

Outstanding Network Centric Program from a Coalition Partner:

Winner: Australian Department of Defence, Rapid Prototyping Development and Evaluation Program

Outstanding Contribution to the Development of Network Centric Operations:

Winner: Terry Morgan, Cisco Systems, Global Government Solutions Group

Runner-up: NCW Course Faculty Team, IRM College/National Defense University, Net-Centric Warfare and Operations Course

The Arthur K. Cebrowski Award:

Winner: Major General Koen K.A Gijsbers, RNL A

2010 NCW Awards™ Judges

Dr. Ron Jost
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for C3, Space, and Spectrum, OASD NII/CIO

Dag Wilhelmsen
Technical Director, NATO Communication and Information Systems Agency

Terry Morgan
Chairman, Emeritus, Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium

Stephen Rejto
Director, Network Centric Operations, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory

Fred Stein
Distinguished Principal Engineer, MITRE

COL David Moore, USA
Project Manager, Battle Command PEO C3T

LtCol (GS) Sönke Marahrens
DEU FLO to USJFCOM J9 & Concept Developer

Dr. Andreas Tolk
Associate Professor, Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, Old Dominion University