Gordon Oswald was the chief science officer of Aveillant Ltd, UK. He studied physics at Oxford, then radioglaciology at Cambridge, applying radar in Arctic and Antarctic geophysics. He joined Cambridge Consultants (Arctic remote sensing; European and US anti-air weapons evaluation; automotive collision avoidance); founded Aveillant (aviation and wind turbine reconciliation; UAV threat classification). He has served as a research professor at the University of Maine, chairman of the British Association of Remote Sensing Companies, and organising secretary of the Cambridge Society for the Application of Research.