With just one week left until the close of entries for ADM’s Women in Defence Awards (WIDA) 2022, ADM is taking a look back at the winners of our 2021 awards across nine categories.
The Project Management category recognises the defence community’s most outstanding female individual working within project management.
The 2021 winner was Air Vice-Marshal Catherine Roberts of Royal Australian Air Force. A Special Mention was also awarded to the Digger Works Women in Combat Team.
AVM Roberts has established Air and Space capability as a new division that includes strategy, procedures, and initial structures for management of the entire capability life cycle for all airborne capabilities, whilst implementing a revised Capability Program Management Architecture.
AVM Roberts was nominated for her superb contributions as a champion for diversity and inclusion, not only in Defence but across the broader Australian community; for her exemplary staff development and mentorship; as a significant role model for women; her superior skill as an internationally recognised engineer; and as a successful national program manager for a number of major RAAF programs.
The other finalists in the WIDA 2021 Project Management category were: Maddy Rentmeester of Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group (CASG), Claire Milton of AeroPM, Deb Herberz of Noetic and Naomi Smith of Boeing Defence Australia.
Entries for the WIDA 2022 awards close on Tuesday 17th May. Submit your nomination here, or contact Associate Publisher Kylie Leonard for more information.
