UK AOC Newsletter - July 2005 |
Living Happily Ever AfterOnce upon a time, a young enthusiastic graduate engineer became involved in Electronic Warfare by joining ASWE Portsdown straight from university in 1966 to work on an HF Intercept project. After three years he moved on to gain further very useful experience working on Seawolf PDMS, in the MOD Department of Scientific & Technical Intelligence (DSTI) and as Scientific Attaché in Her Majesty’s Embassy, Bonn. By 1980 he was firmly hooked on EW and became a Senior Project Manager in MOD(PE) for many airborne EW equipment projects during their development, procurement and introduction to operational service. These included the airborne EW pods for NATO MEWSG, all Canberra T17A receiver and jamming equipment; the new ZEUS (the world’s first integrated EW suite) for Harrier, the procurement of airborne chaff and flares including their dispensers, IRCM and DIRCM (the forerunner of AN/AAQ 24 NEMESIS), aircraft Missile Approach Warners (MAW), Radar Warning Receivers (RWR) for tanker and transport aircraft, the Tornado RHWR and SKYSHADOW ECM pods and their integrated update SR(A) 907, the AN/ALQ101 10 ECM pod update and the TDP phase of Project ASTOR. He spent his last five years in MOD as DD Sy (S&T), responsible for a host of scientific and technical security matters. This included much defence export control work (Arms Working Party, DESO Form 680s and ELAs clearance) with MOD DESO, the DTI and the FCO. He now comments wryly that EW equipment in particular caused many headaches during that period! He finally retired from MOD in 1996 to become a Consultant (Macsin Associates) specializing in his real interest - EW and EW training matters. Macsin Associates is probably best known for representing DRS EW & Network Systems (DRS EWNS) [formerly known as Sierra Research] and DRS EWNS(Canada) [formerly known as Excalibur Systems] in the UK on their broad capabilities in the area of EW simulators and EW training equipment.
He has been an Old Crow for many, many years and a Director of the AOC
UK Chapter since 1982, serving initially as Newsletter Editor and
subsequently as Vice-President. We are therefore delighted to announce
that this outstanding and successful career in EW has been officially
acknowledged by his global AOC colleagues by presenting Jim MacCulloch
with a richly deserved AOC Lifetime Achievement Award. Jim plans to
attend the 42nd Annual AOC International Symposium and Convention on
23-26 October 2005 in Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA to receive the award
in person. We offer Jim our sincere congratulations and long may he
continue to live happily ever after in EW! Planning for ExportsThe UK Chapter was delighted to welcome Jo Guthrie, Technical Adviser & Awareness Manager, Department of Trade & Industry, to the Royal Air Force Club on 29 June 2005 to talk to us about the impact of recent government legislation concerning the export of military equipment and information, in particular ‘intangibles’. Jo works within the Export Control Organisation, Customer Service and Compliance Unit, and is clearly an expert in her field. Her excellent presentation prompted much discussion, not a few worried frowns and – I suspect – several subsequent appointments with the DTI to seek further clarification of company export positions! For those members who were unable to attend this most informative evening (and for those who may wish to revise) a copy of Jo’s presentation is available on this web site. She can be contacted at 020-7215-8123.
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