Triangle Alum Sharpe ill64 honored by Pentegon Reprinted from the DSP Newsletter May, 2009 Triangle alum, Timothy (Tim) Sharpe ill64 who works for Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) at Ft Monmouth, NJ was honored last month in the Pentagon 'Hall of Heroes' by the Defense Standardization Program Office for his work on NATO Standardization Agreements or STANAGS. Brother Sharpe won the Distinguished Achievement Award which came with a $5,000 cash award. Tim Sharpe was the driving force essential to the development of the family of NATO STANAGs on interoperable tactical communications. Furthermore, his leadership and his technical and operational expertise were instrumental in linking the standardization effort with prototyping and testing efforts to ensure Tim Sharpe ill64 far right, accepts a 2008 Defense Standardization Program (DSP) Achievement Award as well as the special honor of the Distinguished Achievement Award, which came with a $5,000 monetary award interoperability, as well as in resolving complex architectural and security issues. In particular, Mr. Sharpe established and chaired the technical working group of 40 representatives from typically twelve nations that produced the TACOMS security architecture. In addition, he authored numerous technical documents and presentations associated with the standards, international-level memorandums of understanding, and management plans for maintaining a maximum level of effort and participation to ensure that development and testing schedules were met. Mr. Sharpe continues to expand operational testing and near-term implementation of the STANAGs via the Combined Warrior Interoperability Demonstration and the Joint User Interoperability Communications Exercise. On this very distinguished honor Brother Sharpe says, "I am very honored to receive the Defense Standardization Program Distinguished Achievement Award. This honor validates my work, brings praise to DISA, and calls attention to the importance of standardization. Winning the top award was totally unexpected and I was among some very capable and distinguished competition."