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William J. Perry Award (Perry Award)On February 10, 2010 the Precision Strike Association will award the fourteenth annual William J. Perry award at the Precision Strike Winter Roundtable. The ceremony will be held during the luncheon at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, VA. Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod (ATP) - 2010 William J. Perry Award Recipient The combat-proven Sniper Pod is the U.S. Air Force's advanced targeting pod (ATP) of record. The Sniper ATP provides critical long-range, positive identification of targets and possesses a video down link (VDL) equipped with the widely used Rover ground receiver to relay high resolution streaming video to forward-deployed forces for NT-ISR and rapid target coordination. Its advanced target identification capabilities enhance the Warfighter’s ability to detect and analyze ground targets while dramatically decreasing the risks posed by enemy air defenses.
For target coordination, the Sniper pod possesses a laser spot tracker to acquire other laser spots from air and ground assets, an infrared marker visible to night vision goggles and a VDL to ground forces. Sniper ATP provides real-time targeting for J-series weapons and its state-of-the-art tracker enables employment of advanced laser-guided weapons against moving targets. The Sniper ATP is the only targeting pod fielded that incorporates meta-data in every frame of video. The date/time stamp and coordinate information further ensure accuracy throughout intelligence and command and control functions. A precision targeting system in a single, lightweight pod, Sniper ATP is designed for current and future aircraft. Sniper ATP is currently flying on the U.S. Air Force and multinational F-16, F-15, B-1, F-18, Harrier, A-10, B-52 and Tornado aircraft. Its common software and hardware interface design enables users to “plug and play” across services and multiple platforms, providing a common software and hardware configuration across aircraft fleets for greater interoperability. _________________________________________________________________________________ William J. Perry Award Requirements In recognition of superb contributions to precision strike systems, the Precision Strike Association and the William J. Perry Award recognizes public or private sector leadership or achievement that results in significant contributions to the development, introduction or support of precision strike systems. The recipient must have made significant contributions that have led to the strengthening of our national security by direct application of precision strike capabilities to DoD systems and/or to the enhancement of our industrial technology base for application to precision strike technology. Past William J. Perry Award Recipients 1997 Dr. William J. Perry 1998 Former Vice President Dan Quayle 1999 RADM Walter Locke, USN (Retired) 2000 The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory 2001 NAVSTAR Global Positioning System Joint Program Office 2002 Representative Jim Hansen 2003 Terry R. Little 2004 JDAM Program Team: U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy & The Boeing Company 2005 United States Warriors of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom 2006 The Tactical Tomahawk Team: U.S. Navy and Raytheon Company 2007 The Small Diameter Bomb Team: U.S. Air Force and The Boeing Company 2008 Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System: U.S. Army and Lockheed Martin Corp. 2009 United States Special Operations Command Stand-Off Precision Guided Munitions (SOPGM) Quick Reaction Team William J. Perry Bio Dr. Perry served as Secretary of Defense from February 1994 to January 1997. He was deputy secretary of defense from March 1993 until January 1994. Before joining the Clinton administration, Dr. Perry was chairman of Technology Strategies Alliances, a professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University, and co-director of Stanford's Center for International Security and Arms Control. From 1977 to 1981, Dr. Perry was under secretary of defense for research and engineering. As such, he was responsible for weapon systems procurement and research and development. He has received numerous awards and decorations from the U.S. and foreign governments, non-governmental organizations and the military, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1997 and the U.S. Department of Defense Distinguished Service Medal in 1980 and 1981. __________________________________________________________________________________
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