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Chairman's Award Certificates
Careers with BAE Systems offer the opportunity to be involved in the development of new and innovative technologies. Our Chairman’s Awards illustrate our challenges by recognising each year our employees who, by working together, achieve results at the leading edge of their and our sphere.
The gold awards are presented by the BAE Systems Chairman Chairman Dick Olver.
The Chairman’s Awards are given in three categories of Innovation, Transferring Best Practice and Enhancing Customer Performance. Our highest - Gold - awards were in 2005 awarded to;
Gold Awards for Innovation:
• Autonomous Imagery (BAE Systems Air Systems, Warton, UK) Is a low-cost system to transmit battlefield imagery at high speed, making efficient use of bandwidth.
• Waveguide Optic Technology (BAE Systems Electronics and Integrated Solutions, Rochester, UK) – Revolutionary display technology based on holographic waveguides developed with Cambridge University with potential application to helmet-mounted and vehicle-mounted displays.
Gold Awards for Enhancing Customer Performance:
• Joint Upgrade and Maintenance Programme (JUMP) (BAE Systems CS&S, in partnership with the MODs Defence Logistics Organisation and the Royal Air Force) – This team and their project, the Joint Upgrade and Maintenance Programme (JUMP), has established a pulse-line upgrade and maintenance facility at the customer’s front line station – RAF Cottesmore thereby improving the availability of the Harrier aircraft to the front line at significantly reduced cost.
• Analytical Support to the Iraq Survey Group
(BAE Systems Customer Solutions, McLean, Virginia, USA) – This team supported the Iraq Survey Group, delivering vital IT analysis work to the US Government.
Gold Awards for Transferring Best Practice:
• Laser-Cut Masking Stencil Process (BAE Systems Electronics and Integrated Solutions, Wayne, New Jersey, USA) – This team developed a new labour-saving technology for the production of printed circuit boards and ensured that it was shared across the company.
• Transfer of Typhoon Maturity Methodology
(BAE Systems Air Systems, Warton, UK) – This team developed Management by Maturity - a ‘step change’ in programme management – and transferred it to the Hawk programme, ensuring it achieved a record first-flight maturity rating.
