Best Young Defence Journalist

Vivienne Machi

Best Training, Simulation and Readiness Submission

Brian Everstine

Best Military Aviation Submission

Guy Norris

Best Breaking News Story

Mike Gruss & Aaron Mehta

Best Land Systems Submission

Jen Judson

Best Technology Submission

Richard Scott

Best Naval Systems Submission

Megan Eckstein

Best Un-manned Systems Submission

Richard Scott

Best Military Rotorcraft Submission

Christopher Freeze

Best Digital Defence Submission

Vago Muradian

Defense & Aerospace Report

The John Morrocco Award for Best In-Depth Defense Reporting

Judges Commendation 

Mark Pomerleau

The John Morrocco Award for Best In-Depth Defense Reporting

Winner

Jeremy Binnie

Outstanding Achievement Award

Alex Quade

Outstanding Achievement Award

Scott Gourley

The shortlisted Finalists for the 2020 Defence Media Awards were as follows;

Best Young Defence Journalist - sponsored by NAMMO

Chen Chuanren

Brian Everstine

Vivienne Machi

Mandy Mayfield

Garrett Reim

Best Training, Simulation and Readiness submission - sponsored by CAE

Megan Eckstein - Navy Continues Advanced Surface Training, Deemed Mission-Essential, During COVID Restrictions - USNI News

Brian Everstine - Combat Heavies – Air Force Magazine

Stew Magnuson – Marine Corps Training Shifts to Great Power Competition – National Defense

Trevor Nash - Baltic Balance - Military Training & Simulation News (Shephard Media)

Jennifer-Leigh Oprihory -"USAF Brings Pilot Training Next to Regular Training in Experimental Curriculum"

Best Defense Aviation Submission

Valerie Insinna & Aaron Mehta - The Pentagon’s supply chain faces an economy under siege – Defense News

Jon Harper – Owning the Skies – National Defense

Gareth Jennings - Brewing up a storm: Tempest ushers in new era for UK combat aviation – Jane’s International Defence Review

Guy Norris - Secret Service - Aviation Week Network

Steve Trimble - U.S. Air Force Reboots Counter-Air Strategy and Halves Spending - Aviation Week Network

Best Breaking News Story - available for sponsorship

Colin Clark - Gen. John Hyten on the new American Way of War – all domain operations – Breaking Defense

Megan Eckstein - USS Harry S. Truman Suffers Major Electrical Malfunction, Raising Questions About Upcoming Deployment - USNI News

Brian Everstine - Air Force Stops T38 Formation Landing Training following 2019 Fatal Crash - Air Force Magazine

Mike Gruss – Defense Leaders in Congress ask Trump to Stop Ligado Plan - C4ISRNET

Ashley Roque - Industry questions US Army’s Stryker up-gunning competition – Jane’s Defence Weekly

Best Land Systems submission - sponsored by Northrop Grumman

Gordon Arthur - Fertile Terrain – Shephard Media

Tim Guest – Ground Mobility – Crucial on Tomorrow’s Battlefield

Jon Hawkes - Flexible armour: The case for lighter tanks – Jane’s

Jen Judson - Lynx 41 disqualified from Bradley replacement competition – Defense News

Julian Nettlefold - Thundercats - Battlespace

Best Technology Submission - sponsored by L3Harris

Mark Cazalet & Sam Cranny-Evans - Bullet proof, nothing to lose: Russia addresses AFV armour and armour-defeat challenges – Jane’s

Aaron Mehta - Inside America’s newly revealed nuclear ballistic missile warhead of the future – Defense News

Richard Scott - Trust in the machine: innovation in AI drives navies to think afresh - Jane's Navy International

Steve Trimble - Air Defense Refined - Aviation Week Network

Dr Tom Withington - SITREP – The Suwalki Gap - Armada International

Best Naval Systems submission - sponsored by Northrop Grumman

Megan Eckstein - The State of LCS: Navy Pushing More Ships to Sea This Fall as Class Matures - USNI News

Jon Harper - Eagle Vs. Dragon: How the U.S. and Chinese Navies Stack Up -

National Defense Magazine

David Larter - Naval Warfare - Defense News

Richard Scott - Carrier Countdown - Jane's Defence Weekly

Dr Lee Willett – Sense, Send and Strike - Armada International

Best Un-manned systems submission

Sam Cranny-Evans - Eyes in the Sky – Jane’s International Defence Review

Tim Martin - Right to Strike - Air Warfare (Shephard Media)

Garrett Reim - SparrowHawk UAV prepares to emerge from incubation – FlightGlobal

Richard Scott - Autonomous ambition: NavyX plots a course to machine speed warfare - Jane's Navy International

Dr Lee Willett – Australian Navy puts Autonomous Warrior on Trial - Armada International

Best Military Rotorcraft submission - sponsored by Elbit Systems of America

Christopher Freeze - The Disaster of the Century - Check-Six.com

Gareth Jennings - Rotary revolution: Helicopter technology on the cusp (Janes International Defence Review July 2019

Tim Martin – Heavyweight Defence (Air Warfare, Shephard Media

Dan Parsons - After the Storm - Vertical Magazine

Yasmin Tadjdeh - Army's Future Attack Recon Aircraft Gains Momentum" National Defense Magazine

Best Digital Defence submission (including video reports, podcasts and online news reports)

Lee Hudson - Inside the THAAD Interceptor Facility - Aviation Week Network

Vivienne Machi - Defense Daily's "The Business End" Podcast: "Space Force: Ready to Launch?"

Vago Muradian - Defense & Aerospace Report

Dan Parsons - What it’s like flying an X2 helicopter at nearly 300 mph - Rotor Radio for Vertical Magazine

Shephard Media’s Weekly Defence Podcast: COVID-19 impact accelerates, Swedish defence minister interview, and Brazil enhances Guarani

The John Morrocco Award for Best In-Depth Defense Reporting

- sponsored by Boeing

Jeremy Binnie – Divided Attention – Jane’s Defence Weekly

Megan Eckstein - BALTOPS 2019 coverage - USNI News

Jon Hawkes - Tricky procurements: The trials of buying land platforms – Jane’s Defence Weekly

Jon Harper - Pandemic: Coronavirus Rattles the Defense Industrial Base" - National Defense Magazine

Guy Norris & Steve Trimble - Pole Position - Aviation Week Network

Mark Pomerleau - Two years in, how has a new strategy changed cyber operations? - Fifth Domain

The Outstanding Achievement Award - sponsored by Lockheed Martin

Alex Quade

Scott Gourley

2019 Award Winners List

Best Young Defence Journalist - sponsored by NAMMO

The nominees for the Best Young Defence Journalist

Kelsey D. Atherton - C4ISRNET

Megan Eckstein - US Naval Institute (USNI) News

Sam Cranny Evans - Jane’s

Lee Hudson - Aviation Week & Space Technology

Kate Martyr - Shephard Media

The winner is Megan Eckstein

Best Naval Systems Submission

The nominees for the Best Naval Systems Submission

Jon Harper - “Incoming: Can Aircraft Carriers Survive

Hypersonic Weapons?” – National Defense

Lee Hudson - Next Battle for USS Harry S Truman Will Be

Over Carrier’s Retirement - Aviation Week & Space Technology

Aaron Mehta and Joe Gould - US could lose a key weapon for

tracking Chinese and Russian subs - Defense News

Jason Sherman, Going Great Guns – Naval Warfare

International - Shephard Media

Dr. Lee Willett- China’s Jiangkai Frigate Roll-Out Delivers

Global Reach- Armada International

The winner is Jon Harper

Best Military Aviation Submission - sponsored by Honeywell

The nominees for the Best Military Aviation Submission

Jeremy Binnie and Ashley Roque - US confirms P-8A Poseidon

was close to RQ-4A Global Hawk down by Iran’ – Jane’s Defence

Weekly

Pat Host - Flight preparation: Pentagon’s radical experiment for

future air superiority – Jane’s Defence Weekly

Gareth Jennings - Bolt-on lethality: Modular weapons provide

punch for helicopters - International Defence Review

Mandy Mayfield - “Fighting Over Fighting Jets: Pentagon Plan to

Buy F-15EX Sparks Controversy” – National Defense

Steve Trimble - Sustainment Shift – Inside MRO

The winner is Pat Host

Best Military Rotorcraft submission - sponsored by Elbit Systems of America

The nominees for the Best Military Rotorcraft submission

Frank Colucci - Heads Up, Eyes Out, All Around

- AHS International Vertiflite

Elan Head and Lloyd Horgan - Mission in Mali

- Vertical 911

Gareth Jennings - Rotary revolution: Helicopter

technology advancements on the cusp

- Jane’s International Defence Review

Tim Martin – Fighting It Out – Defence Helicopter

Joetey Attariwala - CSAR - Building towards a

capability - Asian Military Review

The winner is Frank Colucci

Best Training, Simulation and Readiness submission - sponsored by CAE

The nominees for the Best Training, Simulation and Readiness submission

Lee Hudson - U.S. Army Shakes Up Pilot Training

- Aviation Week & Space Technology

Steven W Miller - Fighting Bloodless Battles

- Armada International

Joe Pappalardo - The Air Force Is Changing How

Special Ops Fighters Are Trained - Popular Mechanics

Oriana Pawlyk - Here’s How the Air Force Hopes to

Train 1500 New Pilots Every Year - Military.com

Kate Warner - The Best Simulation Training Capability

in the World? - Military Simulation & Training (MS&T) magazine

The winner is Lee Hudson

Best Breaking News story

The nominees for the Best Breaking News story

Gina Harkins - Sailors Created ‘Rape List’ Aboard First Sub to Integrate Women

– Military.com

Valerie Insinna - The hidden troubles of the F-35 - Defense News

Hope Hodge Seck - Navy to Change Pilot Call Sign Protocol After Minority

Aviators Report Bias – Military.com

Yasmin Tadjdeh - Analysts Surprised by Boeing-Leonardo’s UH-1N Helicopter

Win – National Defense

Marcus Weisgerber - Boeing Is Pitching the US a New F-15, Using Its Super

Hornet Game Plan - Defenseone

The winner is Valerie Insinna

Best Land Systems submission - sponsored by Northrop Grumman

The nominees for the Best Land Systems submission

Jon Harper - Army Aiming to Prevent Soldiers from Being Outgunned

– National Defense

Jen Judson - US Army’s modernization efforts foster boom in US-foreign

partnerships - Defense News

Beth Maundrill - Ground Based Air Defence (GBAD)

- Land Warfare International (Shephard Media)

Ashley Roque - Taking Defensive Action - Land Warfare International

Kelvin Wong – Rising sons: Japanese ground forces transformation continues

pace – Jane’s International Defence Review

The winner is Ashley Roque

Best Technology Submission - sponsored by L3Harris

The nominees for the Best Technology Submission

Mark Cazalet – The price of quality: Weighing the survivability cost of advanced

AFV mission systems - Jane’s International Defence Review

Mike Gruss - Could artificial intelligence save the Pentagon $15 billion a year?

- C4ISRNET

Pat Host - Satcom surge: Lasers to provide a communications opportunity

– Jane’s International Defence Review

Stew Magnuson - Quantum Technology: Defense Community Slow to Grasp

Potential of Quantum-Based Devices – National Defense

Dr Thomas Withington - Unpicking the Electromagnetic Tapestry

- Asian Military Review

The winner is Stew Magnuson

Best Un-manned Systems submission - sponsored by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems

The nominees for the Best Un-manned Systems submission

Lee Hudson - U.S. Marines Want UAV Payload Design First, How to

Fly Comes Later - Aviation Week & Space Technology

Jen Judson - Robots take on complex obstacles in US Army exercise

– Defense News

Connie Lee - Army Looks to Replace RQ-7 Shadow – National Defense

Oriana Pawlyk - MQ-9 Gets First Air-to-Air Kill in Training Exercise,

Air Force Official Says – Military.com

Richard Thomas - Unmanned VTOL eyes fixed-wing real estate

-Unmanned Vehicles

The winner is Jen Judson

The John Morrocco Award for Best In-depth Defense Reporting - sponsored by Boeing

The nominees for the John Morrocco Award for Best In-depth Defense Reporting

Gabriel Emil Dominguez Cespedes - Fight and talk: Washington’s

new strategy for Afghanistan - Jane’s Defence Weekly

Gina Harkins - The Untold Heroism Behind a Marine’s Secret

Navy Cross from Benghazi – Military.com

Aaron Mehta - How the US and China collaborated to get nuclear

material out of Nigeria — and away from terrorist groups - Defense News

Oriana Pawlyk - The Days of Secret Military Operations May

Soon Be Over. Does it Matter? - Military.com

Steve Trimble and Guy Norris - Pole Position

- Aviation Week & Space Technology

Marcus Weisgerber - Pentagon To Start Creating Space Force

- Even Before Congress Approves It – Defense One

Judges Commendation Gabriel Emil Dominguez Cespedes

The winner is Gina Harkins

The Outstanding Achievement Award - sponsored by Lockheed Martin

Julian Nettlefold - Battlespace

Colin Clark - Breaking Defence

2018 Award Winners List

The winners of the 2018 Defence Media Awards are as follows -



Best Young Defence Journalist - sponsored by NAMMO

Jen Judson- Defense News

Best Cyber Security submission

Yasmin Tadjdeh – Cyber Talent Wanted – National Defense

Best Naval Systems submission

Jon Harper - Expanding the Fleet: Navy Charts Course for 355 Ships - National Defense

Best Military Rotorcraft submission

Tim Martin – Lifting the Spirits- Defence Helicopter

Best Training, Simulation and Readiness submission - sponsored by CAE

Sebastian Sprenger - German Navy Leans Heavy on Sim Pilot Training - Defense News

Best Military Aviation Submission - sponsored by Honeywell

Vivienne Machi - Light Attack for Lower Cost- National Defense

Best Land Systems submission - sponsored by Northrop Grumman

Sam Cranny-Evans, Mark Cazalet and Chris Foss –

The Czar of Battle – Jane’s International Defence Review

Best Technology Submission - sponsored by Harris

Tom Withington - Tactical Communications Compendium – Military Technology

The John Morrocco Award for Best In-Depth Defense Reporting

- sponsored by Boeing

Judges Commendation

Lara Seligman – Hypoxia – Aviation Week & Space Technology

The John Morrocco Award for Best In-Depth Defense Reporting

- sponsored by Boeing

Winner

Peter Felstead - Silver bullet solution- Jane’s Defence Weekly

The Outstanding Achievement Award - sponsored by Lockheed Martin

Frank Colucci

The Outstanding Achievement Award - sponsored by Lockheed Martin

Christopher F Foss