Picard Award

The IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications is an award presented for outstanding accomplishments in the fields of radar technologies and their applications. The award can be presented to an individual or group up to three in number. The award was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 1999. It is named to honor Dennis J. Picard, whose lifetime of work at Raytheon Company helped make them a leader in tactical missile systems. Recipients of this award receive a gold medal, bronze replica, certificate, and honorarium. The 2014 IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications is presented to Dr. Yuri Abramovich "for seminal contributions to adaptive radar signal processing algorithms and over-the-horizon radar."