Munition Safety Awards
MSIAC presents awards for technical and career achievements in munition safety (MS). Make a Nomination…
Awards will be made in two categories:
The MSIAC Award for Technical Achievement will recognize individuals or teams who have made significant contributions in research and/or engineering related to the field of munition safety, potentially on a specific product or technology development effort, weapon system, or technological innovation. Nominees should have published open technical papers and/or presentations at recognized symposia (for example the NDIA IM/EMTS, IMEMG, PARARI, DDESB Seminar, or similar.) Attention is paid to technical achievement that has been incorporated into fielded systems, and that is helping to protect current fighting forces. This award is intended to bring attention to technical successes, increasing awareness such that technical achievements may be shared and further increase the safety of all munitions.
The MSIAC Award for Career Achievement will recognize individuals who have made consistent contributions in research, engineering, production, procurement, fielding, standardization, policy, etc. related to munition safety over an extended period. Nominees should have a long record of open papers, presentations, and achievements in the field of munition safety. Thus they will have demonstrated a career of dedication to the cause of munition safety, as well as an emphasis on sharing information to the benefit of the community.
MSIAC MS AWARD
| YEAR | TYPE Award | TOPIC | COMPANY | NAMES |
| 1997 | Winners | High Performance Less Sensitive Penetrator | Matra BAE Dynamics (FRA / UK) | Nathaniel Saidenberg |
| Patrick Blanc | ||||
| Henri Miermont | ||||
| Kerry Pakullus | ||||
| SNPE (FRA) | Bruno Nouguez | |||
| Special Mention | High Performance Structural Composite for IM Applications | Thiokol (USA) | Victor Singer | |
| Warren L. Graser | ||||
| Dual Explosive Warhead Technology | NSWC (USA) | Michael Vittorio | ||
| Design of EIDS | SNPE (FRA) | Jean Isler | ||
| Alain Bécuwe | ||||
| 1999 | Winner | Atlantic Research Corporation (USA) | Kenneth Graham | |
| 2001 | Winner | Joint Air to Surface Standoff Missiile (JASSM) System | Lockheed Martin & AFRL (USA) | David A. York |
| Ron Wilson | ||||
| Eric E. Roach | ||||
| George W. Brookes | ||||
| Glenn Overby | ||||
| Joseph G. Glenn | ||||
| Stephen Struck | ||||
| John F. Leahy | ||||
| 2003 | Technical Achievements | ESSM Composite Rocket Motor | Nammo Raufoss AS (NOR) | Kai Fossumstuen |
| Stein Tenden | ||||
| Øystein Bjørge | ||||
| Eirik Løkke | ||||
| Onno Verberne | ||||
| Tor-Alexander Fjeldly | ||||
| Advanced Development High Explosives Team | NSWC IH (USA) | Karen Burrows | ||
| K. Wayne Reed | ||||
| Daren Knutson | ||||
| George Hennings | ||||
| Joseph Mackey | ||||
| Gerald Laib | ||||
| Joseph Change | ||||
| Amy Didion | ||||
| Steven Jones | ||||
| Craig Cornish | ||||
| Brian Shaffer | ||||
| Harold Sandusky | ||||
| Robert Hutcheson | ||||
| Dorothy Cichra | ||||
| Kirk Newman | ||||
| Louis Montesi | ||||
| Honorable Mention | Efforts in Support of IM Multi-purpose Bombs | EURENCO (FRA) | Patrick Salle | |
| Patrick Blanc | ||||
| Yvon Laudrin | ||||
| Bruno Nouguez | ||||
| Bernard Mahe | ||||
| I-RDX® | EURENCO (FRA) | Alain Freche | ||
| Joseph Aviles | ||||
| Lionel Donnio | ||||
| Christian Spyckerelle | ||||
| Serge Lecume | ||||
| 2004 | Technical Achievements | Reduced Vulnerability, Melt-Cast, DNAN-Based High Explosives for Low-Cost Ammunition (60 mm Mortar) | TACOM ARDEC / ATK Thiokol Propulsion (USA) | John B. Niles |
| Pamela Ferlazzo | ||||
| Roger Wong | ||||
| Daniel Doll | ||||
| Nikki Rasmussen | ||||
| Alan Allred | ||||
| Reduced Vulnerability, Melt-Cast, NTO-Based High Explosives for Low-Cost Ammunition (155mm Artillery) | GIAT Industries (FRA) | Gérard Augustin | ||
| Philippe Morand | ||||
| Régis Aumasson | ||||
| Maryse Vaullerin | ||||
| Reduced Vulnerability Cast-cured, I-RDX® Based High Explosives for Low-Cost Ammunition | Rheinmetall (GER) | Paul Wanninger | ||
| EURENCO (FRA) | Bruno Nouguez | |||
| Loïc Minguet | ||||
| Bernard Mahé | ||||
| Nathalie Maher | ||||
| SNCTEC (CAN) | Pierre Pelletier | |||
| 2006 | Career Achievement | EURENCO (FRA) | Alain Freche | |
| US Navy (USA) | Ray Beauregard | |||
| Technical Achievement | IM-Compliant Propellants & the Introduction of New IM-Improved Gun Propellants / Charge Systems | Nitrochemie / Rheinmetall RWM (GER / SWE) |
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| EIDS Properties for a Cast-cured Plastic Bonded Explosive FOXIT Underwater Use | FOXIT Team, Oy Forcit AB (FIN) | |||
| Special Mention | SLIM, a Minimum Smoke, 1.3 Haz Class, IM Compliant Rocket Motor | ROXEL (UK) | ||
| Flight Qualified Composite Case Missile Airframe | Composite Case Captive Carry (C4) Qualification Program Team (USA) | |||
| 2007 | Career Achievement | US Navy (USA) | Richard Bowen | |
| Technical Achievement | Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) | 328th ASG, Eglin AFB (USA) | ||
| PMA-259 Naval Air Systems Command (USA) | ||||
| 2009 | Career Achievement | DOSG (UK) | Peter Barnes | |
| Technical Achievement | General Purpose Bomb Insensitive Munitions | PMA-201 Naval Air Systems Command (USA) | Vicki Brady | |
| Que Bui-Dang | ||||
| Manfred (Fred) Becker | ||||
| NAWC China Lake (USA) | ||||
| 328th ASG, Eglin AFB (USA) | Joe Stromsness | |||
| Steve Kelley | ||||
| Stephen Struck | ||||
| 2010 | Career Achievement | WIWEB (GER) | Roland Wild | |
| Technical Achievement | Development of the 120mm IM HE-T Round |
NAMMO Raufoss AS (NOR) | ||
| GD-OTS (USA) | ||||
| GT-OTS St Marks (USA) | ||||
| BAE Systems, Holston (USA) | ||||
| 2012 | Career Achievement | NAWC China Lake (USA) | Alice Atwood | |
| Technical Achievement | Implementation of Reduced Sensitivity Explosive IMX-101 | US Army PM-CAS (USA) | Jim Rutkowski | |
| Charlie Patel | ||||
| ARDEC (USA) | Sanjev K. Singh | |||
| Philip Samuels | ||||
| Anthony Di Stasio | ||||
| US ARL (USA) | Brian Roos | |||
| BAE Systems (USA) | Mike Ervin | |||
| Virgil Fung | ||||
| Brian Alexander | ||||
| Alberto Carrillo | ||||
| 2013 | Career Achievement | Picatinny Arsenal (USA) | Dr Pai-Lien Lu | |
| Aerojet Rocketdyne (USA) | Ken Graham | |||
| Technical Achievement | LLM-105, a highly Insensitive Explosive | LLNL (USA) | Philip Pagoria | |
| 2015 | Career Achievement | Picatinny Arsenal (USA) | Ernest Baker | |
| MBDA TDW (GER) | Werner Arnold | |||
| US Navy (USA) | Vicki Brady | |||
| Technical Achievement | Higher Energy Insensitive Munition Fill Implementation into Mortars | US Army PM-CAS, ARDEC & BAE Systems (USA) | James Chang | |
| Charlie Patel | ||||
| Leila Zunino | ||||
| Dan Napolitano | ||||
| Seham Salazar | ||||
| Nick Baldwin | ||||
| Philip Samuels | ||||
| Daniel Zaloga | ||||
| Keyur Patel | ||||
| Virgil Fung | ||||
| Mike Ervin | ||||
| Brian Alexander | ||||
| David Price | ||||
| 2016 | Career Achievement | EURENCO (FRA) | Bruno Nouguez | |
| AFRL (USA) | Stephen Struck | |||
| Technical Achievement | Brimstone 2 Missile | ROXEL (UK) | Richard Johnson | |
| Andrew Strickland | ||||
| TDW (GER) | Christian Euba | |||
| MBDA (UK) | Colin Lapsley | |||
| DOSG (UK) | Holly Pennington | |||
| Chris Roberts | ||||
| Ray Gibson | ||||
| Lance Finnay | ||||
| DE&S (UK) | Anthony Bates | |||
| Special Mention | US Navy (USA) | Ronald Derr | ||
| 2018 | Career Achievement | US Navy (USA) | Thomas Swierk | |
| Technical Achievement | Advancement in Fast Heating Test Methods | Engility, Inc. (USA) | Alice Atwood | |
| WTD91 (GER) | Alexander Blumenberg | |||
| MOD (NLD) | Albert Bouma | |||
| FMV (SWE) | Per Cederberg | |||
| DGA (FRA) | Fabien Chassagne | |||
| NAWC China Lake (USA) | Kevin P. Ford | |||
| NSWCDD (USA) | Dave Hubble | |||
| Bofors Test Centre (SWE) | Rickard Lindström | |||
| DGA (FRA) | Pierre-François Péron | |||
| TNO (NLD) | J.H.G. (Gert) Scholtes | |||
| US Navy (USA) | Thomas Swierk | |||
| Bofors Test Centre (SWE) | Jon Toreheim | |||
| NAWC China Lake (USA) | Ephraim Washburn | |||
| NSWCDD (USA) | Jon Yagla | |||
| 2019 | Career Achievement | APT Research (USA) | Michael Swisdak | |
| DDESB (USA) | Dr Jerry Ward | |||
| US Navy (USA) | Edward Daugherty | |||
| Technical Achievement | F21 IM Heavyweight Torpedo Warhead Development | Naval Group (FR) | Damien Courrillaud | |
| Naval Group (FRA) | Rodolphe Fougeyrollas | |||
| EURENCO (FRA) | Luc Chaffois | |||
| EURENCO (FRA) | Bruno Nouguez | |||
| EURENCO (FRA) | Vincent Coisnon | |||
| EURENCO (FRA) | Philippe Chabin | |||
| 2021 | Career Achievement | DGA/IPE | Patrick Lamy | |
| Technical Achievement | Efforts in the assessment of HD 1.3 | NAWCWD | Aubrey Farmer | |
| NAWCWD | Nathaniel Davis | |||
| NAWCWD | Cynthia Romo | |||
| NAWCWD | Kevin P. Ford | |||
| NAWCWD | Brian Bojko | |||
| NAWCWD | Austin Bons | |||
| SMS, Inc. | Clint Guymon | |||
| ARCTOS | Jon Chrostowski | |||
| Engility, Inc. | Alice I. Atwood | |||
| SATECH | Thomas L. Boggs | |||
| DDESB | Josephine Covino | |||
| NAVFAC EXWC | Ming Liu | |||
| NAVFAC EXWC | Michael Oesterle | |||
| 2022 | Career Achievement | NOSSA (USA) | Ken Tomasello | |
| Technical Achievement | Development of an IM aircraft bomb model Mk82 General Purpose (Emploi Général) Reduced Vulnerability (Vulnérabilité) | RWMI (ITA) | Fabio Sgarzi | |
| RWMI (ITA) | Gianpetro Roccatagliata | |||
| EURENCO (FRA) | Bruno Nouguez | |||
| EURENCO (FRA) | Philippe Chabin | |||
| DGA (FRA) | Laurent Lafargue | |||
| DGA (FRA) | Kévin Roussel | |||
| DGA - IM Committee (FRA) | Joffrey Duchon | |||
| DGA - IM Committee (FRA) | Jérôme L'Hostis | |||
| DGA - IM Committee (FRA) | Frank Dupuis | |||
| DGA - IM Committee (FRA) | Fabien Chassagne | |||
| DGA - IM Committee (FRA) | Valérie Vincent | |||
| DGA - IM Committee (FRA) | Murat Erdogan | |||
| 2024 | Career Achievement | Philip Samuels |
