Pep Fraser
Associate Consultant
pfraser (at) cfncon.com
Brigadier-General Robert Pepper (Pep) Fraser, OMM, CD, P.Eng., retired from the Canadian Forces in 1994 after 33 years of distinguished service to accept a senior position with the NATO Airborne Early Warning and Control Programme Management Agency (NAPMA) in Brunssum, The Netherlands. He returned to Canada in 2003 and established his own consulting services company.
While with NATO, Brigadier-General Fraser was responsible for the modernization of NATO's fleet of 17 E-3A Airborne Early Warning & Control Aircraft. During his tenure as Chief of the Implementation Division, more than $1.2 billion of fleet upgrades were successfully completed. He was also responsible for the development phase of the Mid-Term Modernization Programme, which is the most significant change to the AWACS since its inception. The Chairman of the NAPMO Board of Directors credited Pep for his outstanding contribution to the success achieved with the NATO AWACS Modernization Programmes.
His last assignment in the Canadian Forces was in 1994 at National Defence Headquarters (NDHQ), where he was the Director General Communications & Electronics Development, responsible for all aspects of requirements development for Canadian military communications and electronics. As the Canadian Principal for the Combined Communications Electronics Board, he worked with his American, British, Australian and New Zealand counterparts to help ensure interoperability of their communications systems. He was also responsible for the establishment of the Canadian Defence Information Services Organization (DISO). Other senior NDHQ assignments include the Director North Warning System Office and the Director Electronics Engineering & Maintenance.
His international experience includes nine years as the Chief of the Implementation Division for NATO AWACS in Brunssum, The Netherlands; two years as the Canadian Forces Attaché in Warsaw, Poland; six months at the NATO Defence College in Rome, Italy; three years on exchange duty with the United States Air Force at Electronics Systems Division, Hanscom Air Force Base, Bedford, Massachusetts; and, four years as a radar technician in Zweibrucken, Germany.
Brigadier-General Fraser is a distinguished graduate of the University of Saskatchewan (Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering), the Canadian Forces National Defence College, the American Industrial College of the Armed Forces in National Security Management, and the NATO Defence College (Rome). He is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario (APEO), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association (AFCEA).