Political representations and a plea from
LTCDR Stoker, former commander of AE2, eventually resulted in Stoker Williams death being officially recognized and a small pension awarded (some time after 1919?) The Royal United Service Institution of Queensland publishes copies of Mrs Williams and
LTCDR Stoker's handwritten letters to Prime Minister Hughes and the Naval Representative in London in their RUSI (Qld) Quarterly, December 2004.
While the exact parameters of the JSECST remain in question until the release of the RFP,
LTCDR Tom Hamman, who leads the Navy's end of the program at PMA-260, said he expects a small (approximately 8 ft3), modular system.