Peter Tait (3)

Peter Tait is currently Head of High Resolution Radar and Non
Co-operative Target Recognition at BAE Systems Integrated System
Technologies. He joined the Marconi Research Laboratories in 1974
after graduating in Physics from Imperial College, London University
with first class honours. He initially worked in the field of radar and
communications receiver research. From 1986 he led the core target
recognition research programme in GEC-Marconi and the group
developing the technology for high resolution modes for company radars
including Captor for the Typhoon fighter aircraft. He then spent two years
on the Captor programme as Technical Adviser to the Euroradar Board
of Directors and in 1997 became Chief Engineer of Sensors Division. In
2000 he joined the predecessor company to BAE Systems in his current
post to develop target recognition technology for naval and land-based
surveillance, tracking and phased array radars. He is a member of NATO
air and ground target recognition working groups and is a reviewer for
IEE journals. He has been granted several UK and worldwide patents,
has presented papers at several international conferences and is known
internationally for his expertise in target recognition. In 2001 he won the
BAE Systems Chairman’s Silver Innovation Award for inventing techniques
for detecting plastic land mines. In 2004 he was presented by the United
Kingdom Government Minister for Technology and Innovation with a
world class company innovation award for his work in target recognition
technology. -- From back cover of Introduction to Radar Target Recognition.