The Harold Brown Award is the highest award given by the United States Air Force to a scientist or engineer who applies scientific research to solve a problem critical to the needs of the Air Force.
The Harold Brown Award is intended to recognize significant achievements in research and development.
The Harold Brown award is presented annually to a person whose achievements in research and development have led to, or demonstrated promise of, a substantial improvement in the operational effectiveness of the Air Force.
Recipients of the Harold Brown Award include: Awarded for research in advanced conventional warheads while at the Air Force Armament Laboratory, Eglin AFB FL Awarded for major advances in ion-molecule chemical kinetics Led Chief of Staff-directed effort to increase situational awareness, streamline command and control, and shorten the kill-chain, while reducing stove-piping.
for outstanding contributions including identifying a breakthrough in physics that enables high-resolution ground to space imaging In recognition of Dr. Kemker's significant achievements in aviation electronics development for dozens of Automatic Target Recognition models, a novel data fusion scheme and five processing algorithms.