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Three Employees Receive Technical Achievement AwardsNASHUA, N.H. – (April 20, 2000) – - Sanders, a Lockheed Martin Company, has honored three members of the company's engineering community for their distinguished contributions during the past year. The awards were presented at Sanders' 21st annual engineering awards banquet held March 31 at the Crowne Plaza in Nashua. Mike Heffron, vice president of Engineering, presented the 1999 Jack L. Bowers award to Gregory Griffin of Bedford, N. H., the 1999 Homer Prue Award for technical leadership to Dan Gobel of Bedford, and the 1999 Technical Excellence Award to John Theriault of Litchfield, N.H. 
Griffin, a senior principal systems engineer, received the company's 1999 Jack L. Bowers award for his work on the U.S. Air Force's F-22 program. The award is named in honor of former Sanders President, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jack L. Bowers. Griffin was recognized for leading the development of an innovative, algorithmic approach to improve the F-22 Electronic Warfare radio frequency subsystem. Sanders began work on the F-22 Engineering and Manufacturing Development program in 1991, and in 1999 delivered its first system with significant electronic countermeasures capability to the team's Avionics Integration Laboratory at Boeing in Seattle.Griffin received a bachelor's degree in electrical science and systems engineering from Southern Illinois University, and a master's degree in electrical engineering from Syracuse University. He is also a graduate of General Electric's advanced course in engineering. 
Gobel, a department manager within the company's Countermeasures business area, received the 1999 Homer Prue Electronic Warfare Award for technical leadership. The award, which was named in honor of former Sanders vice president of advanced technology Homer Prue who retired in 1998, is presented annually to an individual for outstanding technical excellence in Electronic Warfare.Gobel was responsible for developing Sanders' offering for the Integrated Electronic Warfare System (IEWS) for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) F-16 Block 60 Program. He led a multi-discipline team of Sanders and Lockheed Martin Fairchild Systems engineers to define and mature a complete state-of-the-art Electronic Warfare (EW) system for the proposal. The UAE program sought an extremely high-performance EW suite that exceeded existing system capabilities several-fold. This system was designed to contain leading edge technologies in receiver and transmitter functions, to include long and short baseline interferometry antennas and algorithms; high bandwidth, high-dynamic range digital receivers; advanced digital RF memory-based technique generators, and both onboard and off-board transmit capabilities. Gobel joined Sanders in 1992 after a 10-year career with General Dynamics, Fort Worth Division. He received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 1981, and a master's degree in operations research from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, in 1982. 
Theriault, a senior principal electronic engineer, received the 1999 Technical Excellence Award for his work on the Tactical Signals Intelligence Technology Adaptive Recognizer (TSTAR) within the company's Information Dominance Systems business area. TSTAR, a signal recognition and analysis software product, aids product development for numerous signal threat environments. While initial development of the TSTAR architecture began in the early 1990's, its first major operational implementation was on the Cooperative Outboard Logistics Update (COBLU) program where Theriault conceived and directed implementation of the current TSTAR architecture. Theriault's enhancements resulted in a three-fold improvement in throughput while reducing computing resources and significantly improving the system's signal recognition response time. Improvements eliminated redundance without reducing signal recognition function quality.The Technical Excellence Award was established in 1979 to honor Sanders engineers and scientists who excel in their professions and to recognize individual creativity and innovation. Theriault, who joined Sanders in 1988, received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of New Hampshire; a master's degree in computer science from Rivier College; and a master's degree from electrical engineering from the University of Massachusetts. Sanders is an operating company of the Lockheed Martin Corporation, and a major producer of aircraft self-protection systems and tactical surveillance and intelligence systems for all branches of the armed forces. Other major business areas include microwave, mission and space electronics; infrared imaging; and automated mission planning systems. Lockheed Martin, headquartered in Bethesda, Md., is a global enterprise principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture and integration of advanced-technology systems, products and services. The Corporation's core businesses are systems integration, space, aeronautics, and technology services. ###
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