Abstract :
One of the best duties of the Editor-In-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (IEEE TAES) is announcing the winner of the M Barry Carlton award, which was established to acknowledge the best paper published in each calendar year. As stated in the IEEE AESS website, the award was established in 1957 in memory of a man who dedicated his life to promoting the reliability of communications equipment. The basis for the award is demonstration of an important original advancement in the state of the art in an AES technology.