Dr. Paramsothy Jayakumar receives NATO 2023 STO Excellence Award

The NATO Science and Technology Board has granted the 2023 Science & Technology Organization (STO) Excellence Award to Dr. Paramsothy Jayakumar, who currently serves as ARC Thrust Area 1 co-leader.

The citation reads: Dr. Jayakumar “is a recognised leader in the modeling and simulation of mobility and vehicle dynamics within the STO and the US Department of Defense. Over the course of his career, he has developed methods and tools that enable mobility performance assessments for current and future military ground systems. He currently works as a Senior Technical Expert at the US Army DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center.

Between 2015 and 2022, Dr Jayakumar served as the co-chair of two Exploratory Teams formed under the Applied Vehicle Technology (AVT) Panel, three AVT Research Task Groups, and two AVT Cooperative Demonstrations of Technology. He led teams that developed the Next-Generation NATO Reference Mobility Model (NGNRMM), which provides enhanced mobility prediction to support operational planning, vehicle design and acquisition. Two demonstrations of this model were held in 2018 and 2022, and it has been documented as a NATO Standardization Recommendation (STANREC 4813) as well as the corresponding NATO Standard AMSP-06.

The 2023 STO Excellence Award recognises Dr Jayakumar’s unwavering commitment to NATO and the STO, and the expertise, engagement and leadership he has displayed in coordinating multinational and multidisciplinary collaboration.”