Modeling & simulation award winners announced: Department of Defense news release - Sept. 11, 2003 - Awards

Program Manager, Sept-Dec, 2003

The Department of Defense today announced the recipients of the 2003 Defense Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Awards. Each year, the DoD M&S Awards Program recognizes units, organizational elements, and individuals (civilian employees and active duty servicemembers) of the DoD components for excellence, innovation, and achievement in advancement of state-of-the-art M&S.

The awards program is sponsored by the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics. This year's awards ceremony was held at the Pentagon, Sept. 29, 2003. Awards were presented by Dr. Ronald Sega, director of defense research and engineering and chair of the DoD Executive Council for Modeling and Simulation. The recipients of this year's DoD M&S Awards are as follows:

* Acquisition category: The Missile Defense Agency, Washington, D.C., for its "Enterprise Strategy for Modeling and Simulation."

* Analysis category: The Threat Signal Processor-in-the-Loop (T-SPIL) Team, Naval Air Warfare Weapons Division, Naval Air Systems Command, China Lake, Calif.

* Training category: The Training Systems Technology Team, Warfighter Training Research Division, Air Force Research Laboratory, Mesa, Ariz.

* Cross-function category: Dr. Gene E. Layman, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.

Additional information regarding the M&S Awards Program can be found at http://www.dmso.mil/public/community/awards/ or contact the Defense Modeling and Simulation Office at (703) 824-3437 or pao@dmso.mil.