The 2025 Defence Media Awards

The Call for Nominations for the 2025 Defence Media Awards is now open. Here is an opportunity to ensure global industry recognition for the very best work in defence journalism and publishing. 

To make nominations visit -  https://dma.awardmgt.com/entries/

The list of award categories and nominations procedure is as follows –

Best New Journalist – sponsored by NAMMO

For journalists with no more than 5 years’ experience in defence journalism

The Andrew Drwiega Award for the Best Rotorcraft submission

The Best Defence Data Analytics submission– sponsored by SAIC

The Best Naval Systems Submission - sponsored by Hanwha Aerospace

The Best Training, Simulation and Readiness Submission – sponsored by CAE

The Best Breaking News Submission

The Best Federal IT Submission – sponsored by Leidos

The Best Multimedia Military Submission  - sponsored by McKinsey & Company

The Best Land Systems Submission - sponsored by Northrop Grumman

The Best Defence Electronics Submission  – sponsored by General Dynamics

The Best Integrated Maritime Defence Submission – sponsored by Fincantieri

Exploring the convergence of naval operations with emerging technologies such as AI, cyber and autonomy

The Best Missile Defense Submission– sponsored by Northrop Grumman

The Best National Security Space Submission - sponsored by Intelsat

The Best Un-Manned Systems Submission  – sponsored by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems

The Best Military Aviation Submission  - sponsored by Honeywell

The Best Technology Submission – sponsored by L3Harris

The Best Cyber Security Submission - sponsored by The Sierra Nevada Corporation

The Best Mobile Combat Systems Submission  - sponsored by Elbit Systems of America

Best Military Integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) submission  – sponsored by Anduril

The John Morrocco Award for Best In-depth Defence Reporting  - sponsored by Boeing

The Outstanding Achievement Award - sponsored by amentum

How to make a nomination

When making a nomination the timeframe for articles being submitted is June 2024 to the end of June 2025.

Please submit your entries via the following link - https://dma.awardmgt.com/entries

This will take you to the nominations portal, you will be asked for an email and password and from there you can submit nominations for any of the award categories. The portal allows you to edit, change, or add more information or make more nominations up until the closing deadline.

Once you have made a nomination you should receive confirmation that it has been received. You can then submit more nominations for other categories or log out and come back again when you wish to make more nominations or edit the existing nominations.

Please ensure that Nominations are limited to 1 entry per category, in the event of a nominee being nominated twice for the same category the nominee will be asked for their preference as to which nomination goes forward for judging. The reason for limiting nominations to one per category is twofold. Firstly, it is to ensure the judges are presented with the very best work. Secondly on previous occasions, when two nominations per category were allowed, this resulted in the judges’ votes being split between the two nominations and the nominee losing out when the scores were compiled.

Deadline for Nominations

The closing date for nominations is Friday 4th July 2025

To make nominations please visit -  https://dma.awardmgt.com/entries/

If you have any questions, please submit queries to themediadoctor@aol.com