Inaugural Hunter Aerospace Industry Awards
C-E SOLUTIONS RECEIVE PRESTIGIOUS AWARD FOR INNOVATION AT THE INAUGURAL HUNTER AEROSPACE INDUSTRY AWARDS 16th September 2010
Mike McMahon, Jim Zehnder and Mario Grima
C-E Solutions Directors Mike McMahon and Mario Grima were on hand last Thursday evening to receive the Hunter Aerospace Industry Award for Innovation. At the inaugural Gala Dinner held at the Officers Mess at RAAF Base Williamtown, C-E Solutions was presented with the prestigious award – the latest in a number of such awards garnered by the Company over the past eighteen months.
Part of the Hunter Aerospace Industry Summit, held over 18-19th September, the Gala Dinner was attended by many of the leading companies which contribute to the Hunter’s rapidly growing aerospace sector. Director Mike McMahon said in his acceptance speech “C-E Solutions is, once again, pleased to receive recognition for its engineering excellence and innovation. In particular, though, I am proud that we are helping to drive national and international recognition of the Hunter’s attractiveness as a location to establish and grow high-tech industries, such as aerospace.”
The event was sponsored by Port Stephens Council, Newcastle City Council, Newcastle Airport, NSW State Government, Williamtown Aerospace Centre, HunterNet, and Regional Development- Australia - Hunter. The award for Innovation was sponsored by Coffey Projects and was presented by Mr Jim Zehnder.
The innovation award was an acknowledgment of the unique Horus pattern recognition system, which looks at detecting anomalies in air traffic movements and highlights/detects those behaviours that are ‘out of the ordinary’. This detection system is unique as the data mining takes place in ‘real-time’ and can be represented to the operator as a standard map overlay or as a 3D view of the airspace.
This system is set to revolutionise air traffic surveillance as it can help air defence operators to separate ‘friend’ from ‘foe’ by automatically learning and comparing patterns of behaviour. By relieving operators of much of their standard workload, the system enables much larger areas to be monitored by a small team than would otherwise be the case.
The potential uses of the technology are diverse, including national border protection, military surveillance and civilian search and rescue. The system is unique, cost-effective and can be tailored to specific needs or requirements.
