Philippe Margot - ESSOR Programme Manager, OCCAR-EA

Biography

Chief armament engineer, Philippe Margot is 47 years old.

When he left the Engineering school (armament techniques and engineer studies) in 1987, he was assigned to the studies directorate of the shipbuilding direction (DCN) in Toulon where he was in charge of ship radars and the prospective studies connected with them. He successively became head of the search radar group then head of the radar watch and infrared watch division. His position brought him to take part in the acquisition of the radar and infrared equipments of the Jean Bart type anti-aircraft frigate, Lafayette type frigate and Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier.

In July 1994, he was assigned to the naval programme service (SPN). Sent on secondment to London, he was responsible for the definition of the Combat System Design of the Horizon Frigate. This programme was achieved within the scope of a co-operation between the United Kingdom, Italy and France. He was in charge of the specifications of the twenty five sub-systems of the Combat System of the Frigate and took part in their acquisition. He was also in charge of the functional integration of PAAMS (Principal Anti Air Missile System) in close link with the tripartite programme office located in Paris.
In September 1999, he was assigned to Celar, an expertise centre belonging to the systems evaluation and test directorate (DCE) of DGA. The centre is specialized in information warfare and assists programme services in acquiring and assessing C4I systems, telecommunication systems, electromagnetic and infrared systems and electronic warfare systems. He was appointed technical director in 2002. In parallel, he has been French official member of the Sensors and Electronics Technology (SET) panel of NATO Research and Technology Organization (RTO).

In September 2004, he became a member of the Alliance Ground Surveillance Support Staff (AGS3) in Brussels, first as the System Section Head and then as the Chief Engineer for the AGS program. In addition to that, he became the TCAR Sensor Support Group Leader. TCAR (Transatlantic Cooperation for the AGS Radar) was at the time the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) chosen for the AGS program.

Since January 2009, he has been appointed as the ESSOR Programme Manager in OCCAR-EA in Bonn.

Philippe Margot is married and father of 4 children.