NFCS Award Program

Early Career Award

The Early Career Award recognizes an "early career" presenter/author for making meaningful contributions to the Fire Control Community. Those new to the field in the last 7 years delivering and authoring an oral presentation are eligible for consideration of this award.

The Early Career award criteria are:

  • Technical or operational depth of material (25%)
  • Relevance to Fire Control (15%)
  • Potential impact of the technology (35%)
  • Ability to present and field questions (25%)

2017 NFCS Early Career Winners

First Place: ENS Sam Lacinski, Assessment of Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Boost-Phase Intercept of Ballistic Missiles, U.S. Navy

Second Place: Mr. Michael Molignano, Softkill Weapon Coordination for Ship Defense, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Third Place: Dr. Monica Montanari, Long-Range Doppler-Spread Clutter Mitigation in Over-the-Horizon Radars, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Poster Award

The 2018 National Fire Control Symposium will once again present a Peer Reviewed Poster Award. All attendees will be able to cast their vote for the three best overall NFCS posters.

2017 NFCS Poster Award Winners

Congratulations to our 2017 Poster Winners!

First Place: Mr. Marc Santoro, Agile Cybersecurity: A Modest Proposal, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division

Second Place: Mr. Samuel Lacinski, Assessment of Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Boost-Phase Intercept of Ballistic Missiles, MIT Technology and Policy Program

Third Place: Ms. Katherine Souza, Lasercomms System for Mobile Terrestrial Applications, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

2016 NFCS Poster Award Winners

Congratulations to our 2016 Poster Winners!

First Place: Ms. Emily Anesta and Mr. Adam Schnabel, Real-Time Characterization of the Atmosphere in Support of Electromagnetic Maneuver Warfare (EMW), MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Second Place: Mrs. Carol Lee, Cyber Defense Vulnerability Insight Laboratory (Cyber Devil): Moving the Culture of Software Development toward Security, Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division

Third Place: Mrs. Anu Myne, The Broadband Challenge for Next Generation Electronic Warfare, MIT Lincoln Laboratory