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In This Issue
TechNet North 2008
Recent Awards
TRA Harmonized Brief
Links for information on upcoming events
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RVP of Canada, Marv Sywyk
Presents a Life Long Member Certificate on March 4, 2008 to
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AFCEA President Kelly Stewart- Belisle presents Guest Speaker Danial Giasson with his certificate of appreciation at Febrauary's PD Luncheon.
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TechNet North 2008 returns to Ottawa
TechNet North began in
Ottawa in September 2006. It was initiated as a “Northern” Exhibition and Professional Development event to be held annually either in the Canadian or the New England/Upstate New York regions of the Armed Forces Communications Electronics Association (AFCEA).
The 2006 show was held at the Ottawa Congress Centre and was a great success featuring an outstanding professional development series (Seamless Global Security – A Multidimensional Challenge) with international speakers from military, government and industry. The exhibition featured approximately 85 exhibitors showing the latest developments in Command, Control Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) solutions, products and technologies. Visitors to the show included senior decision makers from the Canadian Forces, the
US military, Canadian Government Procurement officials, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and academia.
In 2007, the show took placed on November 14-15, 2007 at the
John
B.
Hynes
Convention Center in
Boston,
MA. Once again the Professional development program (Persistent C4ISR: The Global War On Terror - Homeland Security - Humanitarian Operations) was outstanding, featuring internationally renowned speakers and presenters addressing critical world-wide challenges. Major exhibitors once again displayed solutions and technologies to a variety of visitors from the
US military and government organizations.
This year’s show will be held at
Lansdowne
Park in
Ottawa,
Ontario,
Canada on 30 September and
1 October 2008. Out theme, National Security in a Coalition Environment, will have a professional development program that will highlight the Canadian Forces and Department of National Defence and the coalition environments within which they work for the protection of our National Security. We are targeting to have more than 100 exhibitors from North American Industry to show their latest developments in C4ISR solutions.
TechNet North 2008 will be held under the umbrella of Secure Canada 2008 that features three complimentary security segments in one main event. The other two segments are the Association of Unmanned Vehicles Systems International-Canada (AUVSI-Canada) Expo, and Secure Canada and the World featuring domestic and international solutions for collaborative security, public safety and defense. This will give visitors the opportunity to see wide variety of exhibitions and enhance their time spent at this premiere show on national and international cooperation in security, public safety, risk mitigation, threat response and emergency planning.
For more information on TechNet North 2008, please go to our web site at www.afceaottawa.ca.
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AFCEA Communication Reserve Science Engineering Education Award for 2007
The 2007 recipient of the Communication Reserve Science Engineering Education Award for Non-Commissioned Members is Warrant Officer Leslie Mah of 746 (Calgary) Communication Award. The award includes a $1,000 education award and a one-year subscription to Signal magazine.
WO Mah has been a member of the Communication Reserve for 17 years. As a Land Communications and Information Systems (LCIS) Technician, he has served two tours of United Nations duty with Operation DANACA in the
Middle East. He has served with 73 Communication Group Headquarters in
Edmonton as the Group Training Sergeant and Operations Warrant Officer. For many years, he has demonstrated his instructional and leadership abilities, with the Communication Reserve Schools for Basic Training and Primary Leadership and with the Canadian Forces School of Communications and Electronics.
Currently, WO Mah is employed part-time with 746 Communication Squadron as the Signal Troop Warrant Officer while excelling as a full-time student completing his Geomatics Engineering Technology program at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) in
Calgary.
The AFCEA Education Award was presented to WO Mah during the annual parade for all members of 746 Communication Squadron which precedes the traditional Christmas Dinner for the junior ranks. In attendance for the brief ceremony (and to assist in serving the dinner) were:
- Brigadier-General Art Dunfee, Senior Communication Reserve Advisor
- Lieutenant-Colonel (Retired) Terry Cockerill, presenting the award on behalf of AFCEA Canadian Region Regional Vice-President
- Lieutenant-Colonel VanVianen, Commander 73 Communication Group
- Chief Warrant Officer John Perry, Communication Reserve Formation Chief Warrant Officer
- Chief Warrant Officer Kel Smith, 73 Communication Group Chief Warrant Officer
- Major Chris Coupal, Commanding Officer 746 Communication Squadron
(Photos: L to R – Maj Coupal, T. Cockerill, BGen Dunfee, WO Mah, CWO Perry)
Lieutenant-Colonel (Retired) Terry Cockerill, BSc, PMP, CD
Biographical Sketch
Terry Cockerill was born in
Lindsay,
Ontario. At age 16 he joined the Royal Canadian Artillery (Militia) while attending high school. He graduated from the Royal Military College of Canada with a Bachelor of Science (Applied) in 1970. Upon completion of Signal Officer training, Lt Cockerill was posted to Quartier-general et Escadron des Transmissions (QG ET) in
Valcartier,
Quebec. Capt Cockerill was posted to
Lahr,
Germany in 1973 as Battalion Signal Officer for the 1st Battalion, Royal 22e Regiment and subsequently as a Troop Commander with 4 CMBG Headquarters and Signal Squadron. In 1976 he returned to QG ET in Valcartier as Deputy Commanding Officer. Upon promotion to Major in 1978 he was posted to Force Mobile Command Headquarters in
St Hubert,
Quebec as an Operations staff officer. Upon completion of Canadian Forces Command and
Staff
College course in
Toronto in 1982, he was appointed as Commanding Officer of QGET, his third tour to Valcartier. In 1984, he was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel and posted as a member of the Directing Staff at the Canadian Land Forces Command and
Staff
College in
Kingston for three years. From July 1987 to July 1989, he served as Commanding Officer of the 1st Canadian Division Headquarters and Signal Regiment in
Kingston. He was then posted to Communication Command Headquarters at Tunney’s Pasture in
Ottawa as Deputy Chief of Staff Reserves for the Communication Reserve, where he served for three years until retiring from the Regular Force in 1992. Terry Cockerill joined the Iris Project team at Computing Devices Canada in
Ottawa, and was transferred to the newly created Communications Systems Division of CDC in
Calgary in 1993. He now has over 15 years service with General Dynamics Canada (formerly CDC) in a range of project management positions associated with the Canadian Army’s digitization projects (Tactical Command and Control Communications Systems (TCCCS), Land Force Command System (LFCS) and Land Command Support System). During this time he has maintained his association with the military C&E community and in particular with the members of Director Land Command System Program Management (DLCSPM).
Terry is married to Bernadette Fleury from
Dorchester,
Quebec. They have three adult sons. Bernadette Fleury Cockerill, BSW, is a Registered Social Worker.
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