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=== Corporate career === Scully-Power became the CTO of Tenix Group in 2004, Australia's largest Defence & Technology contractor. In 2007 was appointed chairman and CEO of SensorConnect Inc., a Silicon Valley high-tech company. Scully-Power has extensive commercial, government and academic experience in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and is widely recognised in the fields of defence & national security, aviation & aerospace, marine science, communications & systems analysis, and education. Scully-Power has served as a director of a number of public and private corporate and advisory boards worldwide. Scully-Power is past chairman of the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority and the Federal Government's International Space Advisory Group, a former Chancellor of Bond University (Australia's largest private university), and was the inaugural Chairman of the Queensland Premier's Science and Technology Council. Prior to that he spent over twenty years in the United States where he managed and led many high technology and defence industry programs. He served with the U.S. Navy, NASA, the Pentagon, and the White House, where he was the head of a Government-Industry partnership for the development of advanced communications systems as part of the White House National Technology Strategy Program. He was also responsible for the funding of major programs at universities and research institutions on behalf of the U.S. government. Additionally, he held the Distinguished Chair of Environmental Acoustics, was a research associate at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, chairman of Membership of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, served on the University & College Accreditation Board, and was president of the Fort Trumbull Federal Credit Union. Before going to America, he was the inaugural head of the Royal Australian Navy's Oceanographic Group, deploying to sea on 26 cruises and qualifying as a naval ship's diver. Scully-Power was the first president of the U.N. International Commission on Space Oceanography. He is U.S. Air Force qualified for full pressure suit flying, and was a flight crew instructor in the Astronaut Office, Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas. Scully-Power is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, a Liveryman of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators, and a Freeman of the City of London. He is involved in many business and community groups through his roles as patron of the Australian Aviation Museum, the Royal Australian Navy Laboratory Association, and the League of Ancient Mariners; past vice president of the Naval Warfare Officers' Association; a member of the International Trade and Government Committee of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; and a director of the Australia Youth Trust set up by Princess Diana. He is also a founding member of the advisory board of Environment Business Australia. Scully-Power served for five years on the Australian Trade Commission, and for eight years on the Australian Institute of Company Directors. A larger than life-size oil painting of Dr Scully-Power hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. He was an advocate for the NSW bid to host the Australian Space Agency.
== Awards and honors == U.S. Navy Distinguished Service Medal NASA Space Flight Medal The Casey Baldwin Medallion of the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute United States Presidential Letter of Commendation U.S. Congressional Certificate of Merit United Nations Association Distinguished Service Award Laureate of the Albatross (Oceanography's 'Nobel Prize') The Order of the Decibel (the highest award in the field of Underwater Acoustics) Oswald Watt Gold Medal (Australia's highest aviation award). Member of the Order of Australia (AM) Grand Officer (Second Class) of the Order of the Star of Ethiopia (GOSE) (for developing a water filtration system) Life Membership of the Space Industry Association of Australia
== Organizations == American Geophysical Union Acoustical Society of America American Meteorological Society American Association for the Advancement of Science U.S. Naval Institute Australian Marine Sciences Association Luskintyre Aviation Museum
== Personal life == Scully-Power is married with six children. His recreational interests include squash and racketball, sailing, and reading.
== Technical papers == Scully-Power is considered a world expert in remote sensing: visible, infra-red, radar and acoustic sensing and has earned the highest degree in science, a Doctor of Science in Applied Mathematics for his work. He has published over ninety international scientific reports and technical journal articles, including the Bakerian Lecture of the Royal Society. He has been a major contributor to the U.S. Navy's warfare appraisal and surveillance strategies, and was recognised by the University of Sydney in 1995 as its Distinguished Graduate. He discovered the phenomenon of ocean spiral eddies. He has published in many fields, including physical oceanography, underwater acoustics, remote sensing, applied mathematics, space oceanography, marine biology, meteorology, and ocean engineering.
== Biography == Oceans to Orbit: The Story of Australia's First Man in Space, Paul Scully-Power, 1995, by Colin Burgess. Australia's Astronauts: Three Men and a Spaceflight Dream, 1999, by Colin Burgess. Australia's Astronauts: Countdown to a Spaceflight Dream, 2009, by Colin Burgess.
== References == This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
== External links == "NASA biography of Scully-Power" (PDF). NASA. Retrieved May 18, 2021. Spacefacts biography of Paul D. Scully-Power