Fred Nathanson Memorial Radar Award

Single Annual Award. $1,000 and plaque. Up to $1,000 for the awardee to travel to attend the award ceremony can be authorized by the AESS President. 

Reimbursements will follow IEEE Policies and Procedures.

In addition, the awardee can receive a $1,000 education grant from an endowment established by the Nathanson family pending the submission and approval of a short proposal.

Funded by the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society from funds generated by AESS Systems Panel Conferences. The education grant is funded by the IEEE Foundation from an endowment established by the Nathanson family.

At the IEEE Radar Conference or International Radar Conference

Individual contributions to the radar community through technical papers, presentations, inventions, or products. The selection criteria are based on four weighted categories, which are a) the impact of contributions to the advancement of radar systems (30%), b) the breadth of contributions to the radar art (30%), c) engagement with the IEEE/AESS radar community (20%), and d) the strength of the reference letters (20%).

A young (less than 40 years of age on December 31 of the nomination year) AESS radar engineer whose performance is particularly noteworthy as evidenced by contributions to the radar art over a period of several years.

Nominees must be a member (in any grade) of IEEE AESS and must have made outstanding contributions to the radar art; nominations must permit appraisal of the contributions.

Eligibility and Selection process shall comply with procedures and regulation established in IEEE and Society/Council governing documents, particularly with IEEE Policy 4.4 on Awards Limitations.

Previous award winners are not eligible.

In case of multiple nominations of the same individual, only the first submitted will be considered; withdrawal of a nomination can be requested either by the corresponding nominator or by the nominee, provided that this request is forwarded to the chair of the awards committee before the expiration of the nomination’s submission deadline.

Self-nominations are not permitted.

An individual may serve as a nominator or reference for only one candidate for the Nathanson Award in the year of consideration. If the individual serves in either role for two candidates, the nomination and reference(s) will be removed from consideration.

Nominations should comply with IEEE Policies and restrictions on awards. Incidents of misconduct including, but not limited to, violations of IEEE's publication policies, will be strongly considered by the awards committee and may be grounds for denial of an award or leadership position.  

For questions, please contact the awards chair.