A team working to improve missile defence for the ADF won the top award this week at the Australian Defence Magazine (ADM) Awards Dinner.
The ‘Awards for Excellence’ recognise outstanding teamwork and project management. Recipients are Defence industry partners and Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) project teams.
The Essington Lewis Trophy for the ‘Major Company/DMO Project Team of the Year’ went to the Anti-Ship Missile Defence (ASMD) project office in conjunction with BAE Systems, Saab Systems and CEA Technologies.
The team also won the ‘Major Project’ category award. The team worked effectively to achieve operational release of the system on HMAS Perth and remove the ASMD from the Projects of Concern list.
The award recognises that being placed on the Projects of Concern list is not the end of the world for the program or the companies involved.
Also awarded on the night was the Essington Lewis Trophy for small to medium enterprises which was awarded to Adelaide-based company Daronmont Technologies and the Ground Telecommunications Equipment Systems Program Office for their work on remote communications technology.
Australian electronics company Micreo and DMO’s Land Self Protection Systems Program Office were recognised for working to protect troops from improvised explosive devices, while Cirrus Real Time Processing and DMO’s Training Aircraft Systems Program Office won an award for developing innovative navigation systems.