STONewsArchive: 2022 Science and Technology Organization (STO) Award Recipients

Title: 2022 Science and Technology Organization (STO) Award Recipients
Start_Publishing: 25/05/2022
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Main_Body_Multi: Every year, the NATO Science & Technology Board (STB) recognises outstanding achievements in the international collaboration on Science & Technology (S&T) within the NATO framework through two types of awards: the Von Kármán Medal and the STO Excellence Awards.
The Von Kármán Medal is awarded to highly accomplished individuals with a life-time dedication to international S&T collaboration in NATO. Through exemplary service, recipients repeatedly delivered significant contributions to STO activities over an extended period of time. They combine an internationally recognized career in S&T with leadership and vision to advance the S&T collaboration among the Allied Nations. Typically, the STB awards only one Von Kármán Medal per year.
The STO Excellence Award recognises exceptional accomplishments in recent STO activities, conducted and completed during the last four years. Recipients delivered high-quality original work of considerable military relevance and benefit, while achieving a significant degree of international collaboration. The STO Excellence Awards can be granted to teams and to individuals.
2022 Recipients of STO Awards
In Spring 2022, the STB decided to award the 2022 Von Kármán Medal to:
Dr Henricus (Ric) SCHLEIJPEN (NLD)
The 2022 STO Excellence Awards were granted to the following team and individual:
“Design and Analysis of Compressive Sensing Techniques for Radar, ESM and Electro-Optical Systems” [SET-232 / SET-236];


Dr Ing Michael WUNDER (DEU, IST Panel)

The STB warmly congratulates all 2022 Award winners whose contributions have brought extraordinary value to NATO and honour our S&T community.

The citations for each recipient are summarized hereunder.



 

2022 Von Kármán Medal: Dr Henricus (Ric) Schleijpen (NLD)

It is a great pleasure to announce that Dr. Henricus “Ric” Schleijpen has been selected as the recipient of the 2022 von Kármán Medal. For almost 20 years, Dr. Schleijpen has consistently demonstrated exemplary service to the NATO Science and Technology Organization as a member of the Systems Concepts and Integration (SCI) Panel.

Dr. Schleijpen is a preeminent scientist in the domain of Electronic Defence, having made significant contributions to the field, with an emphasis on Electronic Warfare. As a result of his research contributions, the Electronic Defence Department at the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) has become a global leader in its field.

Within the NATO community, Dr. Schleijpen has represented the Netherlands in the SCI Panel with exceptional commitment, having participated in over 40 activities and publications. Dr. Schleijpen acted as Chair of an activity eight times before becoming Vice Chair and ultimately serving as Panel Chair from 2016-2018.

His exceptional work with the STO is evident by his past accolades. As the Chair of SCI-192 on “Advanced Electro Optical Countermeasure Concepts”, he received a Scientific Achievement Award. Dr. Schleijpen was also a member of SCI-239 on “CM concepts against future IR.EO threats” for which he received a SCI Panel Excellence Award. In 2018, his final year as Chair, he received the SCI Panel Chair Service Award.

Dr. Schleijpen has demonstrated exceptional science and technology leadership and vision within the SCI Panel. His introduction of “Tech Watch Cards” increased focus on new areas of interest and resulted in the effective acceleration of SCI’s ability to identify and address emerging technologies. During his tenure as Chair, Dr. Schleijpen ensured SCI became a leader in the field of Autonomy, resulting in a significant impact on cross-Panel activities on this topic.

Dr. Schleijpen has continuously served the NATO Science and Technology community with excellence and professional integrity.

Page_Intro: Every year, the NATO Science & Technology Board (STB) recognises outstanding achievements in the international collaboration on Science & Technology (S&T) within the NATO framework through two types of awards: the Von Kármán Medal and the STO Excellence Awards.
The Von Kármán Medal is awarded to highly accomplished individuals with a life-time dedication to international S&T collaboration in NATO. Through exemplary service, recipients repeatedly delivered significant contributions to STO activities over an extended period of time. They combine an internationally recognized career in S&T with leadership and vision to advance the S&T collaboration among the Allied Nations. Typically, the STB awards only one Von Kármán Medal per year.
The STO Excellence Award recognises exceptional accomplishments in recent STO activities, conducted and completed during the last four years. Recipients delivered high-quality original work of considerable military relevance and benefit, while achieving a significant degree of international collaboration. The STO Excellence Awards can be granted to teams and to individuals.

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HomePageBodyText: Every year, the NATO Science & Technology Board (STB) recognises outstanding achievements in the international collaboration on Science & Technology (S&T) within the NATO framework through two types of awards: the Von Kármán Medal and the STO Excellence Awards.

The Von Kármán Medal is awarded to highly accomplished individuals with a life-time dedication to international S&T collaboration in NATO. Through exemplary service, recipients repeatedly delivered significant contributions to STO activities over an extended period of time. They combine an internationally recognized career in S&T with leadership and vision to advance the S&T collaboration among the Allied Nations. Typically, the STB awards only one Von Kármán Medal per year.

The STO Excellence Award recognises exceptional accomplishments in recent STO activities, conducted and completed during the last four years. Recipients delivered high-quality original work of considerable military relevance and benefit, while achieving a significant degree of international collaboration. The STO Excellence Awards can be granted to teams and to individuals.

2022 Recipients of STO Awards


In Spring 2022, the STB decided to award the 2022 Von Kármán Medal to:


Dr Henricus (Ric) SCHLEIJPEN (NLD)

The 2022 STO Excellence Awards were granted to the following team and individual:

“Design and Analysis of Compressive Sensing Techniques for Radar, ESM and Electro-Optical Systems” [SET-232 / SET-236];




Dr Ing Michael WUNDER (DEU, IST Panel)
The STB warmly congratulates all 2022 Award winners whose contributions have brought extraordinary value to NATO and honour our S&T community.

The citations for each recipient are summarized hereunder.



 

2022 Von Kármán Medal: Dr Henricus (Ric) Schleijpen (NLD)

It is a great pleasure to announce that Dr. Henricus “Ric” Schleijpen has been selected as the recipient of the 2022 von Kármán Medal. For almost 20 years, Dr. Schleijpen has consistently demonstrated exemplary service to the NATO Science and Technology Organization as a member of the Systems Concepts and Integration (SCI) Panel.

Dr. Schleijpen is a preeminent scientist in the domain of Electronic Defence, having made significant contributions to the field, with an emphasis on Electronic Warfare. As a result of his research contributions, the Electronic Defence Department at the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) has become a global leader in its field.

Within the NATO community, Dr. Schleijpen has represented the Netherlands in the SCI Panel with exceptional commitment, having participated in over 40 activities and publications. Dr. Schleijpen acted as Chair of an activity eight times before becoming Vice Chair and ultimately serving as Panel Chair from 2016-2018.

His exceptional work with the STO is evident by his past accolades. As the Chair of SCI-192 on “Advanced Electro Optical Countermeasure Concepts”, he received a Scientific Achievement Award. Dr. Schleijpen was also a member of SCI-239 on “CM concepts against future IR.EO threats” for which he received a SCI Panel Excellence Award. In 2018, his final year as Chair, he received the SCI Panel Chair Service Award.

Dr. Schleijpen has demonstrated exceptional science and technology leadership and vision within the SCI Panel. His introduction of “Tech Watch Cards” increased focus on new areas of interest and resulted in the effective acceleration of SCI’s ability to identify and address emerging technologies. During his tenure as Chair, Dr. Schleijpen ensured SCI became a leader in the field of Autonomy, resulting in a significant impact on cross-Panel activities on this topic.

Dr. Schleijpen has continuously served the NATO Science and Technology community with excellence and professional integrity.

 
2022 STO Excellence Awards

“Design and Analysis of Compressive Sensing Techniques for Radar, ESM and Electro-Optical (EO) Systems” [SET-232 / SET-236


 

Current military operations are facing new challenges, such as spectral congestion, intelligent jamming, and the need for multi-function systems. While traditional approaches seem to be insufficient in effectively tackling these challenges, the relatively novel concept of Compressive Sensing enables efficient information extraction from sensors, which leads to enhanced performance at less cost


The joint work of SET-232 and SET-236 have made a major contribution to the progress and the success of the Sensors and Electronics Technology (SET) Panel by investigating and demonstrating new techniques for Electro-Optical (EO) imaging, radar, and Electronic Support Measures (ESM) systems. 


SET-232 demonstrated how new spectral bands, and the exploitation of other properties of light to obtain information that cannot currently be measured, will enable warfighters to react faster to threats and to gain a tactical advantage. It also enables advanced imaging capabilities to be introduced at lower echelons, including individual warfighters. This would enable a major increase in overall situational awareness and targeting capability. SET-236 has shown how key performance metrics can be used to form the basis for specifications of future systems which incorporate Compressive Sensing. This tool is particularly beneficial to support radar and ESM designers as well as procurement offices. Radar manufacturers are now taking the results of SET-236 into consideration when designing their next generation of radars. For example, in order to improve angular resolution when detecting and tracking individual drones in a swarm.


The work of both teams brought together 36 scientists from 12 Nations and led to the organization of a successful Lecture Series and Specialists Meeting in 2019. Their results were published at the IEEE Radar Conferences in 2016 and 2017 and at the SPIE Sensing and Imaging Conference in 2018. 

Dr.-Ing. Michael WUNDER (DEU, IST Panel)

For more than a decade, Dr.-Ing. Michael Wunder has made outstanding contributions as a member of the Information Systems Technology (IST) Panel. His work in support of NATO’s collaborative research efforts and exemplary leadership has contributed to the continual success of IST Panel and cross-panel activities. Dr. Wunder’s overall focus has been on emerging technologies and developments that can improve interoperability in the evolving threat landscapes of the future.

As the leader of a number of IST Research Task Groups (RTG), Dr. Wunder made notable technical contributions related to the use of modelling languages to develop frameworks for shared ontologies, ensuring semantic interoperability across domains. He recognized the potential impact of this research on cross-panel and NATO-wide activities, spearheading a number of IST Panel activities on Big Data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.

Dr. Wunder has noted the importance of maintaining a collaborative community comprised of scientists and military alike. He organized the influential Research Specialists Meeting (RSM) IST-160 on “BD and AI for Military Decision Making”. This event brought together approximately 300 participants including junior and senior scientists from NATO Nations and Partners, industry experts, and academics. The success of IST-160 initiated the push towards an increase in cross-panel activities and the development of broader communities of interest.



Another seminal IST Panel event led by Dr. Wunder was IST-RSM-190 on “BD and AI, ML for Hybrid Military Operations”. This virtual meeting attracted 300 participants, influenced the future road map for collaborative research activities, and emphasized NATO responsiveness to complex Hybrid Military Operations.

Dr. Wunder’s technical expertise and dedicated leadership to IST Panel activities makes him a highly deserving recipient of the individual 2022 STO Excellence Award. His positive impact and exceptional contributions to defence and security collaboration is evident through his involvement in over 40 NATO research activities.


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