Girls in MilSatcom Award – Satcoms Innovation Group

Recognising the Girls Shaping MilSatCom

Girls’s position within the area and satcom industries has all the time been an vital focus for the Satcoms Innovation group (SIG). For those who’ve ever attended considered one of our workshops, you’ll know that expertise acquisition – and the significance that girls play in technical and engineering roles – is excessive on our listing of priorities. There has undoubtedly been an enchancment within the variety of girls recruited into engineering roles total. Nevertheless, that is only the start. Girls are nonetheless significantly underrepresented and with a expertise hole that’s inflicting nice concern throughout the satellite tv for pc business and means past, extra range in recruitment goes to be essential for the longer term growth of our sector.

Gradual Modifications

That mentioned, the drum is being banged rising extra loudly, and there was a particular shift within the profile of the satellite tv for pc business as the ladies and younger girls who tackle STEM/STEAM topics and determine upon engineering as their profession, are being taken extra significantly and nurtured quite than instructed that it’s not an appropriate profession path for them. That is main them into extra technical and engineering positions. Whereas girls would have maybe been extra prevalent in advertising or PR roles, we’re seeing many extra feminine CEOs and CTOs or working in extremely technical roles on the coal face of innovation supply.

Boosting the MilSatCom Workforce

This identical gradual change can also be taking place in MilSatCom, a really area of interest however extraordinarily essential space of the navy communications world. With out navy satcoms, operational and ubiquitous connectivity throughout land, air and sea can be unattainable to attain.

The navy has lengthy been a male dominated setting, just like the satcom world. It’s superb to assume on this ‘enlightened age’ that, in 2024, the variety of girls within the UK armed forces totals simply 16,000 compared with 122,000 males. Girls symbolize a largely untapped a part of the workforce that may excel in technological careers if given the suitable recommendation, steerage, assist and encouragement.

Recognition

To spotlight and have fun the pivotal position that girls at present play within the MilSatCom area and the innovation that they convey to the sector, SIG is delighted to be working in partnership with SAE Media Group to deliver the inaugural Girls in MilSatCom Innovation Awards to the very first Girls in MilSatCom Discussion board, recognising girls who’re innovators throughout the navy satellite tv for pc communications business. The Award can be introduced throughout the Discussion board’s free-to-attend Networking Breakfast in London on November 7. Already, there’s an excellent speaker line-up for the occasion and it’s to not be missed.

Helen Weedon, Managing Director, SIG, instructed us: “It’s essential that the business works collectively to advertise and encourage range in satcom, and recognising girls who’re innovators and already making an influence within the business is a key a part of that. I’m thrilled that SIG and SAE Media Group have collaborated to launch the Girls in MilSatCom Innovation Award, and I can’t wait to shine a light-weight on essentially the most modern girls in our business.”

The Discussion board will give delegates the chance to community, achieve perception and share expertise and opinions on the efforts wanted to result in lasting change and growth within the MilSatCom sector. With interactive panel classes, fireplace chats and keynote audio system, attendees will depart with a contemporary perspective on the position that girls supply to the navy satcom business and the integral position they should play inside it.

Yasmin Alsadoon, Head of Manufacturing, SAE, added: “We’re delighted to be launching this new and thrilling award along with SIG, which celebrates and recognises girls who’re innovators in MilSatCom. We stay up for celebrating girls’s excellence in innovation within the business, and to displaying different girls who could also be contemplating a profession within the business, what is feasible.”

Nominate Now

Anybody can nominate their most inspiring girl in MilSatCom. Simply go to the SIG Girls in MilSatCom Awards web page, or for extra data, contact da**@***ig.area.

Word that the deadline for nominations can be Friday 16^th August.

We stay up for seeing you on the occasion!