About
Georges THIBAUT
Education
- Electronics Civil engineer, Royal Military Academy, 1972 (Belgium)
- Aeronautical Engineering Certification, Mather Air Force Base,1974 (USA)
- Automation Engineering Certification, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1975 (Belgium)
- Electronic Warfare Operation /Staff officer course honored with the Gil Haran Award, 1984 (USA)
- Master’s degree in Information Technology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1993 (Belgium)
Career
1- Belgian Air Force (1973-1991): Staff Officer and flying personnel with more than two thousand hours as a navigator on C-130 flying all over the globe in numerous operational and humanitarian missions that includes airdrop and assault operations
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2 - United States Joint Program Office (1978-1983): Representing Belgian MOD in the NATO team at Los Angeles, involved as an engineer in the development of the Global positioning System (GPS)
3 - Trays Space (1991-1993): Software engineer
4 - Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (1993-1994): Representing Belgium at the European Space Agency
5 - NATO HQ (1994-2011): Member of the International Staff. First, as Head of the Air Unit under Defence Investment Division before moving to the Air & Space Section. Secretary during more than 16 years of the NATO Air Force Armaments Group (NAFAG) including numerous sub-committees covering all aspects of the aerospace domain.
6 - CONSULTANT (2012 - xxxx) : Involvement:
- Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR)
(NATO trials Unified Vision 12,14 and 16) and related studies (NIAG SG 164, SG177, SG 178, SG 189, SG 199, SG210),
- Electronic Warfare activities (NIAG SG 185)
- NATO PALS studies (mainly related to GPS/GNSS) (NIAG SG 175, SG 196, SG 229, SG 289)
- Rotorcraft studies
-Helicopter operations in Degraded Visual Environment (DVE) NIAG study (NIAG SG 167, SG 193)
- Next Generation Rotorcraft Capability (NIAG SG 219)
- NATO Special Operations Aviation Battle Space Awareness (NIAG SG 184)
- NATO study on rotorcraft Manned/Unmanned Study (NIAG SG227)
- NATO study on Integrated Sustainability for the Next Generation Rotorcraft (NIAG SG 239)
- NIAG study on Innovative Military Aviation Acquisition (NIAG SG 246)
- NIAG study on Joint-Domain NATO Rotorcraft Interoperability and Survivability in a Peer Nation Threat Environment (NIAG SG 266)