Paul Scully-Power

World Expert on Technology, Defence, Aerospace & Remote Sensing

Dr Paul Scully-Power is a recognised leader in applied technology, an innovator and corporate strategist. Formerly the Chief Technology Officer of the Tenix Group, Australia's largest defence and technology contractor, Dr Scully-Power is also known as Australia's first astronaut, having flown aboard Challenger on the 13^th mission of the space shuttle.

 Dr Scully-Power has spent over twenty five years in the United States where he has managed and led many high technology and defence industry programs. He has served with the US Navy, NASA, the Pentagon, and the White House. As well as the US, Dr Scully-Power has extensive commercial and government experience in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, and is widely recognised in the fields of technology and strategy, defence and security, aviation and aerospace, ICT, oceanography, and education.

Dr Scully-Power is considered a world expert in remote sensing: visible, infra-red, radar and acoustic and has published over ninety international scientific reports and journal articles. He has been a major contributor to the US Navy's warfare appraisal and surveillance strategies, and wrote the Navy's Technology Plan. He is a Doctor of Science in Applied Mathematics, discovered the phenomenon of ocean spiral eddies, and is the University of Sydney's 1995 Distinguished Alumnus.

Dr Scully-Power has also had extensive involvement in community groups as Patron of the Australian Aviation Museum, the Royal Australian Navy Laboratory Association, and the League of Ancient Mariners (Master Mariners); Vice President of the Naval Warfare Officers' Association; and has served on the American Chamber of Commerce, and the Australian British Chamber of Commerce. He was a Director of the Australian Trade Commission for five years, and a Councillor of the Australian Institute of Company Directors for eight years.

He has also been responsible for the funding of major programs at universities and research institutions on behalf of the U.S. government.

Among Dr Scully-Power's many awards are the Distinguished Service Medal (the highest honor awarded by the U.S. Navy), NASA Space Medal, United States Presidential Letter of Commendation, United Nations Association Distinguished Service Award, Laureate of the Albatross (Oceanography's 'Nobel Prize'), Order of the Decibel (the highest award in the field of Underwater Acoustics) and Australia's highest aviation award, the Oswald Watt Gold Medal. He was appointed a Member in the Order of Australia on Australia Day 2004.

A larger than life-size oil painting of Dr Scully-Power hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, Australia.