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 radar 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 Minster for Technology and Innovation with a world class company innovation award for his work in target recognition technology.