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Engineering and Patent Awards Banquet

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Pat Seamon Vice President of Engineering

Government Communications Systems

Message From the President and Chief Executive Officer

Engineering excellence has long been a Harris hallmark. In a global, knowledge-driven economy,

technological innovation is critical to customer satisfaction, competitiveness, and long-term growth. Due

to your efforts, Harris enjoys a reputation for quality and performance second to none. I am continually

reminded of—and amazed by—the incredibly difficult and complex problems our engineers regularly

face and overcome to help our customers accomplish some of their most demanding missions.

The GCS Engineering and Patent Awards recognize many of our finest scientists, engineers, and tech-

nologists for their remarkable ingenuity and innovation. On behalf of all Harris employees worldwide,

thank you for your hard work, sacrifice, and dedication to our company.

Bill Brown President and Chief Executive Officer

Message From the Group President of GCS and the GCS Vice President of Engineering

Tonight we honor and congratulate each of you, the recipients of the 2013 GCS and Corporate Engineering

and Patent Awards. Your contributions have led to the design and development of cutting-edge technologies

and tools that help our customers solve their most complex problems. Your spirit of innovation and

commitment to the pursuit of excellence serve as a positive example for all GCS employees.

Despite increasing global competition, GCS can look toward the future with confidence, thanks to your

work. You are helping to build a foundation for our business that will drive our growth well into the future.

Thank you for your hard work, creativity, and dedication—and congratulations again on tonight’s

recognition!

Sheldon Fox Group President

Government Communications Systems


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WelcomeCraig Miller

IntroductionsPat Seamon

Corporate AwardsKent Buchanan, Craig Miller, and Jim Clamons

Dinner

Engineering Manager of the YearJim Clamons

Patent AwardsCraig Miller and Jim Clamons

Corporate Awards (cont’d)

GCS Engineering AwardsCraig Miller and Jim Clamons

Closing RemarksCraig Miller

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2013 Corporate Awards

Golden QuillSarah Berninger and Leigh LynchPublication: Next Generation Air Traffic Control Voice System Situational AwarenessPresented at: ATCA

Paul Bosscher and Daniel HedmanPublication: Real-Time Collision Avoidance Algorithm for Robotic ManipulatorsPresented at: Industrial Robot: An International Journal

Charles ChenPublication: Trajectory-Based Weather—ATM Integration at Florida NextGen Test BedPresented at: ATCA

Dr. Richard DeSalvo, Scott Meredith, Charles Middleton, and Robert Peach Publication: Linear Phase- and Frequency-Modulated Photonic Links Using Optical Discriminators Presented at: Optics Express, Vol. 20, Issue 24, pp. 26292–26298 (2012)

Mark GrahamPublication: Highly Survivable Networks for NextGen Using Parallel Redundancy Protocol (PRP)Presented at: ATCA

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John Henderson, Jeremy Jackson, Don Lieb, and Thomas McDowallPublication: Beam Modulation and Interferometry for Geolocation of Moving Vessels Using Synthetic

Aperture Radar Phase History DataPresented at: 2012 NRO/NSA Geolocation Conference

Dr. Alan MichaelsPublication: New Alternatives for Interference Tolerant Waveforms Hosted on a Software

Programmable Multi-Mission PlatformPresented at: Waveform Diversity and Design Conference 2012Publication: Pulse Rotation Modulation for Spread Spectrum Communication SystemsPresented at: MILCOM 2012Publication: (invited) panel member for SIAM Industrial Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics

Conference: Applications of Digital Chaos for CommunicationsPresented at: Ind. Apps. of Nonlinear DynamicsPublication: LPI Communication Conference—classified industry presentation (twice in 2012)Presented at: LPICCPublication: National Special Communications Board—classified industry presentations (invited in 2012)Presented at: NSCB

Keith OldsPublication: Not All Bands Are Created Equal—A Closer Look at Ka and Ku High Throughput

SatellitesPresented at: SATCON 2012

Division CooperationCharlie Gipson, Lenny Hewitt, Loren Hobart, Brenda Kaiser, John McCormick, and Rick Vaupel The BETA program software and hardware enhancement for our operational facility had critical deadlines for supplying new capabilities to the warfighter. These capabilities were the first step in modernizing the operational environment to virtualized processing. The upgrade required a cutover to the new hardware and software environment while not impacting ongoing operations. Despite numerous unexpected problems with contention for site test systems, delayed approval from the customer security team, and the need to coordinate multiple customers, the GCS and HITS teams pulled together to “make it happen.” Their actions led to the follow-on 3-year option, $42 million award to Beta.

Don Croteau, Robert Kriner, Dennis Noffke, and Stewart WeimerThe BOM Grading team was joint effort of the EDP team (Cristi Holland Lau and Vinoj Mathew) together with divisional subject matter experts (Robert Kriner, Don Croteau, Dennis Noffke, Stewart Weimer, Joel Weber, and Josh Fogg) in both RFC and GCS. The team developed a powerful BOM grading tool powered by the Engineering Desktop Portal (EDP). The tool allows the upload of a bill of material (BOM) or a list of parts and allows the user to “grade” the health of the design and offers options to improve the grade. BOM grading measures parts reuse and use of APIMS parts which reduces supplier risk and overall cost of operations. The life cycle of the parts is also evaluated, allowing obsolescence reviews and end-of-life predictions for parts. Single sourcing is evaluated and flagged, when alternates are available but not selected to enable multi-sourcing. Obsolescence and sourcing reviews directly impact availability (both short- and long-term) and support Harris customers; e.g., Defense Logistics Agency’s Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortage Program (DMSMS). BOM grading has become an essential tool for Harris’ design engineers; in fact GCS has made the BOM Grading part of their critical Design Review for all circuit card assemblies (CCA).

Jamie Boorde and Jonathan FranklinThe Tactical Keyloader (TKL) Hardware team overcame challenging environmental and power requirements through excellent Division Cooperation, helping to ensure the upcoming delivery of high quality products to the marketplace. The TKL product recently released into production is a new market area for Harris, providing significant orders and revenue opportunities in the near future. This product faced some unique electrostatic discharge (ESD) challenges, since it primarily operates in a host mode when connected to target devices to load secure fill material. In addition, this device is required to be powered by readily available alkaline batteries that are a challenging power source in a military product environment. The RFC TKL hardware team leveraged the knowledge and expertise of the GCS environmental and power supply specialists to develop and verify solutions for both of these challenging technical areas. The result of this collaboration is the completion of a hardware package that exceeds all ESD and power requirements, including a battery life that is more than double that of the competition.

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Cost Improvement InnovationThomas Garrett-Kraus, Paul Siefert, and Debra YanavokThe GGI program has been producing the CIB geospatial product over the last 10 years, but 2012 was a banner year. Harris was awarded the sole source production of CIB products in record quantities due to innovations in environment, workflow, and productivity. By capitalizing on technology advancements with faster workstations and servers, storage architecture, networking, and streamlined production workflows, the team was able to deliver to the customer more coverage for less dollars. The cost for a 1-meter CIB product dropped from $6,000 in FY’11 to $4,000 in FY’13. Collectively, this team had CIB production hitting on all cylinders, delivering products the “first time right” and on or ahead of schedule. Thanks to the team’s efforts, GGI exceeded its FY’12 AOP target by almost 50%.

Sean Bowden, Andy Fleck, James Smith, Wendy Swartz, Josh Walters, and Ben WoodTo promote operational excellence, the FTI team recently introduced internal measures of effectiveness (iMOE). MOEs are the measures that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) uses to evaluate the FTI award fee. This concept was introduced with a quarterly competition: “Who can save the most $s?” In response, the security team’s iMOE was to eliminate the need for purchasing McAfee appliances by replacing them with a built-in capability within the Sidewinder firewall. The team—Wendy, Sean, Ben, Andy, James, and Josh—completed the testing necessary to receive FAA approval to use the antivirus function in the Sidewinder firewall. Eliminating McAfee appliances resulted in a projected one-time savings of $1.1 million and an annual savings of $70,000.

Gerry Batista, Jorge Ferrand, and Dave GarciaJorge, Gerry, and Dave initiated negotiations with Oracle to position Harris to save money on purchases of Oracle licenses. Through that negotiation they achieved an 83.75% discount off the list price, with a favorable long-term maintenance (19% of negotiated price) agreement. The NEMS program was bid assuming a 75% discount and 20% maintenance, so this complex negotiation resulted in savings and an increase to the bottom line of $1.8 million over the 5-year contract. Additionally, the team negotiated open DEX licensing with an open source vendor, enabling significant future business at a fixed cost and extending the current license to 8,000 cores when we are currently using fewer than 25% of those licenses.

Bob LangeBob’s efforts to create ECO error codes for Mechanical Engineering and subsequent adoption to the Product Data Management (PDM) system have provided intelligence to Mechanical Engineering leadership that was never available before. Understanding our most common mistakes allows us to adapt training and develop corrective actions to reduce the cost of poor quality. This project has also been leveraged by two other Green Belt projects and has been used by Mechanical Engineering managers to select best practices and software tools. The intelligence Bob created led to a 5% reduction in defects in FY’12 and an additional 5% projected reduction in FY’13. These reductions equate to approximately $600,000 in direct savings to Mechanical Engineering, along with the reduced cost of poor quality to production functions later in the product life cycle.

Gerry Becker, John Pavlak, and Tim Schuck The team that delivered the Design-to-Cost (DTC) tool consisted of the Supply Chain Systems group (Frank Cowan and Cristi Holland Lau) working with a team of divisional contributors (Gary Hallenbeck, Tim Schuck, Gerry Becker, John Pavlak, and Eric Bonham). The kernel of the tool was developed at RFC and was used for costing products before release. Now functionality has been expanded so that it can be used anywhere within Harris and it provides support to products in all design phases, including pre-design, New Product Introduction (NPI), manufacturing, service, and engineering changes. The DTC engine uses the Supply Chain System’s EXPO tools for automatic quote requests and supplier collaboration. DTC uses the Corporate Price Database, which is part of HITS supply chain data warehouse, and provides access to all pricing data available within Harris, including quotes, preferred supplier prices, and actual purchases. DTC enables everyone from engineers to supply chain specialists to perform cost rollups of part lists, assemblies, and BOM exports out of AGILE. The cost rollup capability allows “what-if” analyses and can use a combination of cost estimates, prices, or quotes together with a variable build quantity. New quotes can be requested for new parts or benchmark existing ones. An opportunity analysis function is available that alerts the user to potential savings. What-if analyses can be performed for “build vs. buy” by including NRE and assembly cost. Design team progress can be tracked by viewing results in the month-over-month reporting or a target cost to be entered and the team can track their progress against it. The tool promotes affordability, speed, flexibility, and efficiency while promoting collaboration across Harris.

Industry RecognitionDenny HansenDenny is a recognized industry leader for large-scale environmental and weather ground systems, with more than 40 years of engineering experience in both government and industry—11 years with the U.S. Air Force and more than 30 years of service with Harris. Denny has been instrumental in the full life-cycle pursuit and program execution of large-scale, weather ground system programs such as DMSP, NPOESS, SBIR, and a key win, the more than $1 billion GOES-R program. He is a senior Life Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and has served on several boards/panels, such as the GSAW on System Development and Small Business and the National DIA for the Undersecretary of Defense, investigating the consolidation of DoD programs. Denny has presented at several GOES-R User and American Meteorological Society (AMS) conferences and is presenting the GOES-R Architecture at the 2013 AMS conference. He has been singled out by our teammates for his technical contributions with Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Northrop Grumman orals. Denny is a highly respected and noted engineer within the weather system community.

Jessica AscoughJessica participates on many industry panels as a trusted advisor and thought leader. She has been asked to present at the North American Synchrophasor Initiative, North American Electric Reliability Corporation, UCA International Users Group, Open Smart Grid Users Group, and EnergySec. Her background and experience provided Harris with the credibility needed to win a program in an industry new to the company. Jessica’s expertise and industry knowledge created a program and contract that did not previously exist.



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Donna KocakDonna is a recognized industry leader in maritime and underwater systems, and has been an active subject matter expert in the maritime industry for more than 20 years. She founded the Maritime Technology Society’s (MTS) Ocean Observing Systems Committee and currently serves as its chairperson. She has participated in, organized, and co-chaired numerous industry conference workshops and panels at conferences such as the Subsea Survey IRM, Offshore Communications Conference, and MTS/IEEE Oceans Conference. Donna was recently elected Vice President of Publications for MTS. Her background and experience provided Harris with the credibility to win a program in an industry new to the company. Since joining the Triton team, Donna has established working agreements with four U.S. Navy procurement program offices, five U.S. Navy vehicle prime contractors, and eight industry suppliers of systems for the oil and gas community. She has also negotiated—with nine of the 13 industries—nondisclosure agreements to exchange data in support of teaming. She has independently prepared multiple white papers and proposals for subsea robotic mechanisms, communications networks, sensor integration, and satellite communications. Donna is a highly respected and noted engineer within the maritime systems community.

Nick Bargovic and David Neff David and Nick were awarded the 2012 FBI Director’s Annual Award for Outstanding Technical Advancement. Their “Basejumper” application architecture introduced numerous innovations to the FBI Counterterrorism Division, and a user interface that “far exceeds any system currently used by the FBI.”

Product and Process InnovationStephanie Erickson and Elliott Ferguson In cooperation with the NGA customer, Elliot and Stephanie are responsible for successfully creating an automated product-on-demand workflow to generate tactical pilotage charts (TPC) and joint operational graphics (JOG) using the T-Kartor software system. These charts are used by the military for navigation, planning, and the rendering of safety and navigation data for pilots. In many cases, these maps have not been updated for more than 30 years due to the cost and manual labor required. With this successful effort, charts can now be produced rapidly in weeks versus years, with extremely fast and cost effective updates in days rather than months. The $2 million pilot program resulted in a new JOG product already in operational use. A $2 million TPC prototype pilot award is also anticipated. Potential revenues for these two new products could result in awards exceeding $40 million over 5 years.

Don Darby, Chris Johnson, Steve Kaletcher, John Quinlivan, and Crystal Turner The team created the Compact HRFU within an aggressive schedule. The Compact HRFU was created by reusing the components and elements from the HRFU-e2 and designing a new structure to re-host those parts in an extremely small form factor that would fit on a Shadow UAV (a very small platform). The team was severely constrained by the size and weight limits for the Shadow and by the schedule driven by the NIE 13.2 timeline. The team had only 45 days (6 weeks) from start to finish. The Compact HRFU antenna provides entrance into the air tier communications layer for high capacity network radios opening a $150M market for Harris.

Wade Overturf and Tommy ReedTommy and Wade conceptualized, developed, and delivered management dashboards that provide analytics for business area and functional leaders. Using the Microsoft BI stack, they provided a common framework—dubbed “I-Queue”—for low cost, rapidly deployable, robust analytics. They have developed dashboards that provide metrics on FTI deployments; e.g., on-time status and service pipeline, and Engineering organization health; e.g., labor, forecast, and experience levels. These solutions provide engineering and business managers with always-current information, leading to faster, better decisions. The dashboards have been institutionalized and are used for many management decisions. The GCS operational excellence and EIT teams intend to use the I-Queue framework in many other dashboard applications.

Bob Carson and Russ SinclairRuss and Bob developed the concept and led the development of selectable radar mosaics. Their research first started with an IRAD and subsequently led to the $10 million award of WMSS ECP1 to productize as a deliverable to the FAA. With this capability, air traffic controllers can select to view the pertinent radar layers that will potentially impact aircraft. Most importantly, this capability positions us with a discriminator in pursuing $140 million in NextGen weather programs.

Tim Clarkston, Dr. Richard DeSalvo, Matt Dupont, Jed Edwards, Debbie Gipson, Scott Larson, Carlos Rodriguez, Glenn Weimar, and Steve Williams This team is responsible for taking a complex concept imagined on a whiteboard and creating a fieldable system that greatly exceeded customer expectations. This innovative product, called Skeletools, is compact, simple to use, and has significantly lower power consumption. Skeletools went from basic lab demo to working system in the field within 8 months. The system is now in high demand and multiple units are currently in accelerated production on the Magic Hat program, with variations in work on Pitch Black and Cutlass. This team identified the customer need, worked closely with end users, and created a complete solution with capabilities that far exceeded previous capabilities, helping to create an innovative discriminator for Harris in the Apollo domain.

David Allen, Jeffrey Bell, Michael Borbath, Frederick Bowman, Robert Fangmeier, Kevin Harper, Philip Livengood, James Michaud, and David McQuaig The team designed, built, installed, and supported multiple, high level, in-the-field customer demonstrations showcas-ing this first-of-its-kind capability. The team was able to demonstrate and characterize this technology in a real-life en-vironment to understand and measure critical performance characteristics—further maximizing customer confidence in future fielded systems. The team brought a core Proprietary technology out of the laboratory and into a real-life environment, successfully demonstrating virtually every aspect of end-to-end performance. This team’s accomplish-ments are key to the strategic positioning of Harris as the AS technology leader for the next generation of systems.

Mike HickmanMike was part of a team that conceived, designed, and implemented the Intelligent Controller System software for the Royal Caribbean fleet. One of the most challenging operational issues in a multiband and multilink onboard environment is determining when to switch links, how to deal with blockage on the vessel, and optimizing performance at the best cost. The ICS elegantly solves this problem and has excellent customer feedback due to higher system availability, and internally this saves labor costs by avoiding manual intervention to perform antenna switches. HCC will continue to deploy ICS to other fleets.


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Antennas & RF ElectronicsInventions that are unique to the transmission and/or reception of radio waves. This category includes the electronics that drive the antenna, as well as unique antenna shapes that offer advantages in mission performance.

Russell W. LibonatiPatent: 8314744Biconical Dipole Antenna Including Choke Assemblies and Related Methods Date: 11/20/2012

Francis Parsche Patent: 8144066Wireless Communications Including an Antenna for Wireless Power Transmission and Data Communication and Associated Methods Date: 3/27/2012

Patent: 8164529Loop Antenna Including Impedance Tuning Gap and Associated Methods Date: 4/24/2012

Patent: 8314744Biconical Dipole Antenna Including Choke Assemblies and Related Methods Date: 11/20/2012

Patent: 8319688Planar Slot Antenna Having Multi-Polarization Capability and Associated Methods Date: 11/27/2012

Commercial Oil & CoalInventions that are relevant to the oil production industry. This category includes both the electronics that extract oil from locations that are difficult to retrieve, as well as the systems and methods for modeling, simulating, and analyzing products to detect, extract, or improve the quality of hydrocarbon materials.

Mark Ernest BluePatent: 8101068Constant Specific Gravity Heat Minimization Date: 1/24/2012

Patent: 8128786RF Heating to Reduce the Use of Supplemental Water Added in the Recovery of Unconventional Oil Date: 3/6/2012

Derik T. EhresmanPatent: 8101068Constant Specific Gravity Heat Minimization Date: 1/24/2012

Patent: 8128786RF Heating to Reduce the Use of Supplemental Water Added in the Recovery of Unconventional Oil Date: 3/6/2012

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Our patent portfolio is actively managed along product family groupings. Each product family is

a focused technical area in which we are building our intellectual property. Thus, we continually seek

inventions that fall within these product families.

Antennas & RF Electronics

Commercial Oil & Coal

Components & Packaging

Image Processing

Mechanisms & Structures

Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Networks & Information Handling

Optical Processing

Signal Processing

2013 Patent Awards

the product families are:

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Dr. Victor M. HernandezPatent: 8120369Dielectric Characterization of Bituminous Froth Date: 2/21/2012Patent: 8128786RF Heating to Reduce the Use of Supplemental Water Added in the Recovery of Unconventional Oil Date: 3/6/2012

Francis ParschePatent: 8128786RF Heating to Reduce the Use of Supplemental Water Added in the Recovery of Unconventional Oil Date: 3/6/2012Patent: 8133384Carbon Strand Radio Frequency Heating Susceptor Date: 3/13/2012Patent: 8337769Carbon Strand Radio Frequency Heating Susceptor Date: 12/25/2012

Components & PackagingInventions that are focused on new electronic devices, as well as innovative packaging methods for electronic components.

Philip A. Marvin Patent: 8161633Method of Fabricating Non-Planar Circuit Board Date: 4/24/2012

Alan W. MastPatent: 8217842Electronic Device With Edge Surface Antenna Elements and Related Methods Date: 7/10/2012

Dr. Louis J. RendekPatent: 8161633Method of Fabricating Non-Planar Circuit Board Date: 4/24/2012

Daniel A. RobisonPatent: 8217842Electronic Device With Edge Surface Antenna Elements and Related Methods Date: 7/10/2012

Troy Woodrow SellsPatent: 8125808Three-Phase Low-Loss Rectifier Date: 2/28/2012Patent: 8174214Three-Phase Low-Loss Rectifier With Active Gate Drive Date: 5/8/2012

Lawrence W. ShacklettePatent: 8161633Method of Fabricating Non-Planar Circuit Board Date: 4/24/2012

Image ProcessingA specialized form of signal processing focused on imagery that provides unique methods of image analysis, interpretation, and/or manipulation.

Jason M. AsbellPatent: 8130245System and Method for Processing Map Images Date: 3/6/2012

Tariq Saad BakirPatent: 8094960Spectral Calibration of Image Pairs Using Atmospheric Characterization Date: 1/10/2012Patent: 8260086System and Method for Fusion of Image Pairs Utilizing Atmospheric and Solar Illumination Modeling Date: 9/4/2012

Elizabeth D. CookPatent: 8239179Geospatial Modeling System Using Single Optical Images and Associated Methods Date: 8/7/2012

Kurt FeldbushPatent: 8130245System and Method for Processing Map Images Date: 3/6/2012

Dr. Emile GanthierPatent: 8156157Geospatial Modeling System Providing Windowed Geospatial Model Data Inpainting and Related Methods Date: 4/10/2012

Brian F. HicksPatent: 8306288Automatic Identification of Fingerprint Inpainting Target Areas Date: 11/6/2012

Mark A. IngersollPatent: 8203552Geospatial Data System for Selectively Retrieving and Displaying Geospatial Texture Data in Successive Additive Layers of Resolution and Related Methods Date: 6/19/2012Patent: 8212807Geospatial Data System for Selectively Retrieving and Displaying Geospatial Texture Data Based Upon User-Selected Point-of-View and Related Methods Date: 7/3/2012

Robert D. KaiserPatent: 8260086System and Method for Fusion of Image Pairs Utilizing Atmospheric and Solar Illumination Modeling Date: 9/4/2012

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Patrick KelleyPatent: 8099264Geospatial Modeling System Providing Inpainting and Error Calculation Features and Related Methods Date: 1/17/2012Patent: 8239175Geospatial Modeling System Providing Poisson-Based Geospatial Data Set Merging and Related Methods Date: 8/7/2012

Dr. Thomas M. McDowallPatent: 8094960Spectral Calibration of Image Pairs Using Atmospheric Characterization Date: 1/10/2012

Sean O’Day MiniclierPatent: 8130245System and Method for Processing Map Images Date: 3/6/2012

Donald C. PooleyPatent: 8179393Fusion of a 2D Electro-Optical Image and 3D Point Cloud Data for Scene Interpretation and Registration Performance Assessment Date: 5/15/2012

Mark Rahmes, Ph.D.Patent: 8099264Geospatial Modeling System Providing Inpainting and Error Calculation Features and Related Methods Date: 1/17/2012Patent: 8156157Geospatial Modeling System Providing Windowed Geospatial Model Data Inpainting and Related Methods Date: 4/10/2012Patent: 8239175Geospatial Modeling System Providing Poisson-Based Geospatial Data Set Merging and Related Methods Date: 8/7/2012Patent: 8306288Automatic Identification of Fingerprint Inpainting Target Areas Date: 11/6/2012

Anthony O’Neil SmithPatent: 8179393Fusion of a 2D Electro-Optical Image and 3D Point Cloud Data for Scene Interpretation and Registration Performance Assessment Date: 5/15/2012Patent: 8290305Registration of 3D Point Cloud Data to 2D Electro-Optical Image Data Date: 10/16/2012

Eric Spellman, Ph.D.Patent: 8094960Spectral Calibration of Image Pairs Using Atmospheric Characterization Date: 1/10/2012Patent: 8260086System and Method for Fusion of Image Pairs Utilizing Atmospheric and Solar Illumination Modeling Date: 9/4/2012

J. Harlan YatesPatent: 8099264Geospatial Modeling System Providing Inpainting and Error Calculation Features and Related Methods Date: 1/17/2012

Mechanisms & StructuresInventions that are primarily comprised of mechanical elements that perform new and unique functions.

Francis ParschePatent: 8115333Wind Turbine Providing Reduced Radio Frequency Interaction and Related Methods Date: 2/14/2012Patent: 8174139Wind Turbine Providing Reduced Radio Frequency Interaction and Related Methods Date: 5/8/2012

John S. Seybold, Ph.D.Patent: 8115333Wind Turbine Providing Reduced Radio Frequency Interaction and Related Methods Date: 2/14/2012Patent: 8174139Wind Turbine Providing Reduced Radio Frequency Interaction and Related Methods Date: 5/8/2012

Lawrence W. ShacklettePatent: 8137001Repeatable Optical Waveguide Interconnection Including an Index Matching Elastomeric Solid Layer and Related Methods Date: 3/20/2012Patent: 8231281Repeatable Optical Waveguide Interconnection Including an Index Matching Elastomeric Solid Layer Providing Core and Cladding Index of Refraction Matching and Related Methods Date: 7/31/2012

Dr. Michael R. WeatherspoonPatent: 8137001Repeatable Optical Waveguide Interconnection Including an Index Matching Elastomeric Solid Layer and Related Methods Date: 3/20/2012Patent: 8231281Repeatable Optical Waveguide Interconnection Including an Index Matching Elastomeric Solid Layer Providing Core and Cladding Index of Refraction Matching and Related Methods Date: 7/31/2012

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Mobile Ad Hoc NetworksA specialized subset of signal processing that is focused at a unique radio protocol that allows for devices to self-form and self-configure communication links with their nearest neighbors.

Joseph B. CainPatent: 8155093Mobile Ad Hoc Network Providing Desired Link Delay Offset Without Guard Times and Related Methods Date: 4/10/2012

Alan J. MichaelsPatent: 8325702Multi-tier Ad Hoc Network in Which at Least Two Types of Non-Interfering Waveforms are Communicated During a Timeslot Date: 12/4/2012

Keith OldsPatent: 8155093Mobile Ad Hoc Network Providing Desired Link Delay Offset Without Guard Times and Related Methods Date: 4/10/2012

Networks & Information HandlingInventions that contain improvements in computer network design, security, and information flow.

Jim BardgettPatent: 8203464Registration of a New Node to a Meter Reading Wireless Mesh Network and Associated System Date: 6/19/2012Patent: 8217805Address Stripping in a Meter Reading Wireless Mesh Network and Associated System Date: 7/10/2012Patent: 8314717Network Address Field for Nodes Within a Meter Reading Wireless Mesh Network and Associated System Date: 11/20/2012

Thomas J. BillhartzPatent: 8203464Registration of a New Node to a Meter Reading Wireless Mesh Network and Associated System Date: 6/19/2012Patent: 8217805Address Stripping in a Meter Reading Wireless Mesh Network and Associated System Date: 7/10/2012Patent: 8314717Network Address Field for Nodes Within a Meter Reading Wireless Mesh Network and Associated System Date: 11/20/2012

Daniel J. BricherPatent: 7657755 Modular Cryptographic Device Providing Status Determining Features and Related Methods Date: 2/2/2010

David B. Chester, Ph.D.Patent: 8212551Low Level Sequence as an Anti-Tamper Mechanism Date: 11/13/2012

Russell W. DellmoPatent: 7657755 Modular Cryptographic Device Providing Status Determining Features and Related Methods Date: 2/2/2010Patent: 7711963 Modular Cryptographic Device Providing Enhanced Interface Protocol Features and Related Methods Date: 5/4/2010

Dr. Richard DeSalvoPatent: 8280004System and Method for Non-Destructive Decontamination of Sensitive Electronics Using Soft X-ray Radiation Date: 10/2/201217 18



Kevin L. Fox, Ph.D.Patent: 8230467Media Asset Management System for Managing Video Segments from an Aerial Sensor Platform and Associated Methods Date: 7/24/2012Patent: 8250613Media Asset Management System for Managing Video News Segments and Associated Methods Date: 8/21/2012

Larry SmithPatent: 8300653Systems and Methods for Assured Communications With Quality of Service Date: 10/30/2012

Al WaschkaPatent: 8203464Registration of a New Node to a Meter Reading Wireless Mesh Network and Associated System Date: 6/19/2012Patent: 8217805Address Stripping in a Meter Reading Wireless Mesh Network and Associated System Date: 7/10/2012Patent: 8314717Network Address Field for Nodes Within a Meter Reading Wireless Mesh Network and Associated System Date: 11/20/2012

Bruce W. YancyPatent: 7644289Modular Cryptographic Device Providing Enhanced Communication Control Features and Related Methods Date: 1/5/2010Patent: 7657755 Modular Cryptographic Device Providing Status Determining Features and Related Methods Date: 2/2/2010Patent: 7711963 Modular Cryptographic Device Providing Enhanced Interface Protocol Features and Related Methods Date: 5/4/2010

Optical ProcessingInventions that improve the performance of free space and channelized optical communications.

Michael R. BorbathPatent: 8098991Wideband RF Photonic Link for Dynamic Co-Site Interference Mitigation Date: 1/17/2012

Dr. Richard DeSalvoPatent: 8098991Wideband RF Photonic Link for Dynamic Co-Site Interference Mitigation Date: 1/17/2012Patent: 8116638Radio Frequency (RF) Signal Receiver Using Optical Processing and Associated Methods Date: 2/14/2012

Dr. Timothy E. DimmickPatent: 8330081Filament Heating Device for an Optical Fiber and Related Methods Date: 12/11/2012

Dr. Charles F. Middleton IVPatent: 8098991Wideband RF Photonic Link for Dynamic Co-Site Interference Mitigation Date: 1/17/2012

Lawrence W. ShacklettePatent: 8175426Optical Fiber Switch Including an Index Matching Elastomeric Solid Layer Providing Core and Cladding Index of Refraction Matching and Related Methods Date: 5/8/2012Patent: 8195016Optical Fiber Switch Including an Index Matching Elastomeric Solid Layer and Related Methods Date: 6/5/2012

Brian Edward SimpsonPatent: 8330081Filament Heating Device for an Optical Fiber and Related Methods Date: 12/11/2012

Mark Trautman, Ph.D.Patent: 8330081Filament Heating Device for an Optical Fiber and Related Methods Date: 12/11/2012

Jeff WyattPatent: 8098991Wideband RF Photonic Link for Dynamic Co-Site Interference Mitigation Date: 1/17/2012

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Signal ProcessingInventions that describe unique methods of analysis, interpretation, or manipulation of radio and acoustic signals.

Dr. William C. Adams, Jr.Patent: 8169886Code Division Multiple Access Based Contingency Transmission Date: 5/1/2012

William T. BlackPatent: 8234686System and Method for Creating a Security Application for Programmable Cryptography Module Date: 7/31/2012

David B. Chester, Ph.D.Patent: 8139764Closed Galois Field Cryptographic System Date: 3/20/2012Patent: 8145692Digital Generation of an Accelerated or Decelerated Chaotic Numerical Sequence Date: 3/27/2012Patent: 8180055Cryptographic System Incorporating a Digitally Generated Chaotic Numerical Sequence Date: 5/15/2012Patent: 8200728Sine/Cosine Generator Date: 6/12/2012Patent: 8320557Cryptographic System Including a Mixed Radix Number Generator With Chosen Statistical Artifacts Date: 11/27/2012Patent: 8340295High Speed Cryptographic System Using Chaotic Sequences Date: 12/25/2012

John E. HoffmannPatent: 8160165Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) Communications Device and Method That Incorporates Low PAPR Preamble and Frequency Hopping Date: 4/17/2012Patent: 8160166Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) Communications Device and Method That Incorporates Low PAPR Preamble With Circuit for Measuring Frequency Response of the Communications Channel Date: 4/17/2012Patent: 8165232Low Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) Preamble for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) Communications Date: 4/24/2012Patent: 8175178Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) Communications Device and Method That Incorporates Low PAPR Preamble and Variable Number of OFDM Subcarriers Date: 5/8/2012Patent: 8189697Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) Communications Device and Method That Incorporates Low PAPR Preamble and Receiver Channel Estimate Circuit Date: 5/29/2012

Alan J. MichaelsPatent: 8139764Closed Galois Field Cryptographic System Date: 3/20/2012Patent: 8145692Digital Generation of an Accelerated or Decelerated Chaotic Numerical Sequence Date: 3/27/2012Patent: 8165065Ad Hoc Network Acquisition Using Chaotic Sequence Spread Waveform Date: 4/24/2012Patent: 8180055Cryptographic System Incorporating a Digitally Generated Chaotic Numerical Sequence Date: 5/15/2012Patent: 8200728Sine/Cosine Generator Date: 6/12/2012Patent: 8320557Cryptographic System Including a Mixed Radix Number Generator With Chosen Statistical Artifacts Date: 11/27/2012Patent: 8340295High Speed Cryptographic System Using Chaotic Sequences Date: 12/25/2012

Christopher D. Moffatt, Ph.D.Patent: 8135081System and Method for Reducing Peak-to-Average Power Ratio for Multi-Carrier Communication Systems Date: 3/13/2012Patent: 8160165Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) Communications Device and Method That Incorporates Low PAPR Preamble and Frequency Hopping Date: 4/17/2012Patent: 8160166Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) Communications Device and Method That Incorporates Low PAPR Preamble With Circuit for Measuring Frequency Response of the Communications Channel Date: 4/17/2012Patent: 8165232Low Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) Preamble for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) Communications Date: 4/24/2012Patent: 8175178Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) Communications Device and Method That Incorporates Low PAPR Preamble and Variable Number of OFDM Subcarriers Date: 5/8/2012Patent: 8189697Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) Communications Device and Method That Incorporates Low PAPR Preamble and Receiver Channel Estimate Circuit Date: 5/29/2012Patent: 8229009System and Method for Communicating Data Using Efficient Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) Modulation Date: 7/24/2012Patent: 8238454System and Method of Communicating Data Using Efficient Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) Demodulation Date: 8/7/2012Patent: 8274921System and Method for Communicating Data Using Efficient Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) Date: 9/25/201221 22


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Message From the Engineering VPs

It is with a great deal of pride that we celebrate the accomplishments of 2013. We thank you for

your contributions to Harris’ business, and enjoy celebrating your accomplishments with you.

We also would like to extend our gratitude to the significant others and families of those honored

tonight. We appreciate the sacrifices that families make in supporting the demanding work our

customers require.

Please join us in celebrating the engineering accomplishments of 2013 and enjoy the evening.

Craig Miller Vice President

Systems Engineering Government Communications Systems

Jim Clamons Vice President

Engineering–Operations Government Communications Systems

Individual Contributors

Presented to employees who through their direct contributions have had a significant positive impact on Harris

Project Leadership

Presented to employees who through their leadership on projects have had a significant positive impact on Harris

Technical Leadership

Presented to employees who through their technical contributions and innovation have had a significant positive impact on Harris

2013 GCS Engineering Awards

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Dr. Tim DimmickDuring the past year, Tim—a senior scientist supporting the Strategic Systems product line—has made significant, positive contributions on the SIDEWINDER and KON-TIKI programs. With a combined value of more than $150 million, these programs are developing cutting-edge technology for the customer’s most challenging mission. Tim has demonstrated technical excellence through his vision for and design of the key technology elements on both programs. The resulting capability is revolutionary and will enable missions that were once considered impossible. Tim’s work is key to the Strategic Systems product line’s continued dominance in this technology area and will secure its lead position for the next generation of missions.

Dr. Paul KoenemanPaul demonstrated technical excellence by designing, modeling, and synthesizing an innovative actuator mechanism on the KON-TIKI program. The design approach is state-of-the-art and is the enabling technology to make a capability, once considered impossible, a reality. Paul’s contributions are key to maintaining the Strategic Systems product line’s dominance in this technology area and will help to secure its lead position for the next generation of missions.

Dr. Kevin SmithKevin has demonstrated technical excellence by designing, modeling, and synthesizing key technology elements on the KON-TIKI program. The design approach is revolutionary and, once developed, will enable missions that were once considered impossible. The technology is generating extraordinary customer interest and continued funding to keep the development progressing. This capability is key to maintaining the Strategic Systems product line’s dominance in this area and will secure its lead position for the next generation of missions.

Christopher TrentChris is the Lead Antenna Design Engineer for the Next Generation Jammer (NGJ) program’s Current Sheet Antennas (CSAs). Chris’ design and analysis expertise enabled NGJ to meet three of three Navy aperture demonstrations on schedule, achieving objectives. Chris is a subject matter expert on ultra-wideband array theory, and his antenna designs are critical elements of the current NGJ program and in establishing Harris’ position on the EMD and production programs. His efforts have contributed to program extensions and work share growth.

John LincourtJohn provided crucial technical contributions that led to delivery of the Frequency and Time Subsystem (FTSS) on the MET program. The FTSS’s delivery was in the critical path of MET’s First Article Integration and Test Plan. In addition to his core contribution in defining this subsystem and monitoring its development at our supplier, John also provided the necessary drive and leadership to meet the challenges of this delivery.

Robert LeggettRobert provided technical contributions that led to Harris obtaining a successful on-orbit deployment and passive intermodulation test for the MUOS program’s Flight 1, while obtaining more than 15% unit-to-unit cost reductions for the integration and test of Flights 2 through 5. Robert played a pivotal role in leading the team through the implementation of a new management operating system to help reduce costs.

Individual ContributorsSharon BresserIn preparation for the GOES-R Critical Design Review (CDR), Sharon led all ECP 007, element, and core GS CDR dry runs and formal reviews. She coordinated agendas, content, formats, and personnel, including more than 300 Harris, subcontractor, and government representatives, hundreds of CDRLs, and over 5,000 pages of presentation material. All reviews were deemed “excellent” by the NASA/NOAA independent review committees and government teams. A successful CDR execution was an award fee criterion for Period 4, contributing to the team’s 95%—“excellent”—technical score.

Frank GutierrezAs a result of budget cuts, the WARP program was in danger of being canceled. Through user and customer interaction and presentations, Frank was able to champion the value of WARP, keeping the program sole source for another year, plus option years. As the chief systems engineer, Frank has kept the program current by upgrading operational capabilities, increasing responsiveness to user issues/questions, and supporting the program office by serving as the subject matter expert in WARP meetings. He is the government’s “go-to” individual for WARP solutions.

Bill McNuttBill led the Software Engineering effort on the $73 million Avior program, from pre-pursuit to final delivery. Bill architected a highly flexible, standards-compliant Interface and Control/Status application. Prior to CDR, the Avior customer identified software as the number one risk on the program. Bill accepted this challenge and mitigated the risk by hosting a fully functional demonstration, using prototype code, at CDR. As a result of Bill’s leadership, the customer immediately identified the software as “the standard” for HMI and asked for a style guide that used Bill’s software as the benchmark. Bill also has been instrumental in taking an enterprise approach to development activities by helping other Harris teams use the Avior software across the Spartan programs.

Tom OliverTom provided key technical leadership on the Glasgow program, resolving design-related issues with a subcontractor deliverable called the H2 CEU. The CEU provides a high-performance system controller capability that supports the end customer’s critical mission need. Late in the development effort, the team discovered a number of CEU design issues that threatened the overall Glasgow schedule and the ability to deploy the system. Tom led efforts to resolve each of these technical challenges, including backplane, power supply, and adapter card issues. He engaged the subcontractor and its key vendors so that technical issues were quickly isolated to the root cause, allowing the team to quickly apply the most appropriate technical solutions. This effort led to the successful delivery of two flight-qualified CEU systems, as well as kudos from the prime contractor and its end customer.

Chad RunyanFor 6 months, Chad has been deployed to the customer’s OCONUS site in support of critical missions for the Archer program, providing engineering support for a complex prototype system. Chad has been highly responsive in maintaining a high level of system availability. He performs equipment testing to identify anomalies before they affect missions and rapidly troubleshoots issues during missions to return the system to operational status, thereby maintaining critical system operations. Chad has received numerous commendations from the customer for doing whatever it takes to make the mission successful.



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Joe SchoolfieldJoe is a key contributor in meeting the Mission Critical Networks (MCN) business area’s Strategic Growth Plan by protecting GCS’ System Wide Information Management (SWIM) position in the National Airspace System through his leadership in support of the Integrated Airport Initiative work at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. Joe identified new growth areas and introduced new technologies, such as cloud for the DEX lab and Aircraft Access to SWIM. He continues to innovate by managing the development of new services, such as the Airport Surface Application Service. He is also leading efforts to take our SWIM capabilities into new markets both domestically and internationally. During the past year, Joe’s impact has resulted in $6.5 million in awards.

Louis SavardAs the Radio Telecom Interface Multiplexer (RTIM) software project leader, Louis drove the team to a successful Design Acceptance Test (DAT). When he first joined the program, Louis began developing white papers to ensure the customer’s needs were documented clearly for successful implementation after the customer requested significant changes to the product. Since DAT, we have delivered more than 1,000 RTIMs and associated spares, they have been installed in the field by the customer, and the system is operational in the customer’s busiest airspace. RTIM deliveries to NAV CANADA continue through December 2014 on this $24 million program, at which time NAV CANADA will complete the build-out of its new radio network.

Technical LeadershipChris ListDue to an unexpected leadership vacancy on the Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment (SGSS) program, Chris was asked—with less than 2 weeks notice—to step up from his role as an interface subsystem lead to assume the technical lead position on the largest IPT, the $49 million USG, which encompasses approximately 30% of SGSS scope. Chris and the USG team did not miss a beat in the transition, continuing to work on the requirements, design, and development. Within the next 5 months, Chris led the team to successful Element SRR and PDR reviews with minimal action items, presenting more than 900 slides himself at the PDR. Chris’ leadership and rapid assimilation helped preserve the technical cohesiveness of the SGSS baseline and directly contributed to a 95% award fee.

Jody SeigleAs the chief software engineer for the ISARA program, Jody leads a highly effective, geographically distributed (Melbourne, FL/Chantilly, VA) software development team that is applying an Agile development process. ISARA’s success in implementing a key software oriented architecture messaging backbone for next generation systems is critical to GCS’s ability to position for future system development roles. Due to his success in coordinating with the program office and ISARA operational users during demos, the program office authorized additional technical scope to meet critical directorate-level milestones. In the face of a highly aggressive plan, Jody led his team to successfully complete a key code milestone on schedule.

Project LeadershipMartha MeyerMartha was instrumental in leading the GOES-R EM/IS team in three major incremental builds. This IPT is the leading edge of the GOES-R development team and frames the foundation for future increments and builds. These builds are crucial to our award fee evaluation and were completed on time with superb customer feedback.

Mike BlantonMike was the lead on developing the Capability-Based Build (CBB) approach for restructuring GOES-R’s development activities. Mike not only developed the plan, but also coordinated all of the activities associated with integrating our teammate’s pieces and selling the concept to the customer. He developed a model that helped the customer understand the nuances of this drastic change. The CCB approach has proven invaluable to expanding our customer relationship and reducing program risk.

Dayne FentressDayne is currently the chief systems engineer for the Geyser Peak program. Valued at more than $65 million, Geyser Peak has successfully introduced multiple new products in support of the Apollo mission, and Dayne’s technical leadership has been instrumental to the program’s overall success. Dayne’s hands-on approach to addressing customer issues and ability to provide technical leadership to multiple development tasks has made Geyser Peak enormously successful. His and his team’s efforts have resulted in a follow-on program award, valued at more than $38 million, that will develop new products and support the customer’s mission.

Tom PietschTom led a 2-year engineering project to renovate the Wickham and Palm Bay data centers—comprising 8,000 square feet—to enterprise class infrastructures. This effort involved coordinating more than 65 individuals (comprised of contractors, facilities, and EIT) demolishing and constructing walls; moving more than 300 server and storage systems that support GCS Engineering; and installing entirely new networking, monitoring, power, and cooling architectures. Tom’s efforts led to minimal customer disruption despite the fact that the data centers were fully operational throughout the project. Completion of the project yielded a more modern, energy efficient, engineering documented, and policy and process driven data center. These benefits significantly lowered overall operating costs due to efficiencies in cooling, ease of management, the ability to handle future growth and fewer downtimes.



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Chris PeronaChris is the lead developer for the Site Outage Impact analytic on the National Security Agency’s (NSA’s) CMM program. This software is used daily. He has also employed new technologies such as MapReduce and Hadoop in the customer’s analytic environment. Due to Chris’s efforts, CMM has received three consecutive 100% award fees.

Chris Collings, Dick Pitts, and Bruce SwahlanDick, Bruce, and Chris led the technical solution development for the Data Communications Integration Services (DCIS) pursuit, a recently awarded $331 million program within the Mission Critical Networks (MCN) business area. DCIS will modernize air traffic communications systems by adding data communications capability for operations between pilots and air traffic controllers, a vital component in the FAA’s NextGen program. Harris had been pursuing DCIS for the last 3 years, and this technical leadership team brought together Harris’ strategy into an award winning proposal. Dick, the chief systems engineer, played a critical role driving to our solutions and organizing the winning team—which consists of many teammates—to cover all aspects of the contract. Bruce led efforts to plan the program, developing and estimating the engineering hours to drive the program plan. Chris defined our integration and engineering approach, working closely with teammate experts in avionics, automation, and communications. Chris is also the face of Harris on the Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics (RTCA) SC-214 standards committee. The entire team was vital to the overall development of the orals presentation to the FAA.

Mitch Kamp, Jerry Kikla, and Steve SpicerMitch, Jerry, and Steve led the technical solution development for the National Airspace System (NAS) Voice System (NVS) pursuit, a recently awarded $291 million program within the Mission Critical Networks (MCN) business area. NVS will modernize air traffic voice communications systems, ultimately replacing Voice Switching and Control Systems (VSCS) and other terminal and tower voice switches, with VoIP capability that will enable the FAA NextGen program. Harris had been pursuing NVS for the last 4 years, and this technical leadership team brought together Harris’ strategy into an award winning proposal. Jerry, the chief systems engineer, brought the overall architecture together, resulting in a system that was designed to meet all requirements. Mitch led the embedded systems architecture and, with his previous experience on the Voice Switching and Control Systems (VSCS) program, developed a systems approach that captured the essentials from legacy systems while driving to the NextGen solution. Steve led the radio interface solution, for which his previous experience with GD radio control equipment provided a significant advantage in our transition solution approach.

Joshua Bruckmeyer, Rob Clark, Alan Mast, and Eric PetkusJoshua, Rob, Alan, and Eric created the architecture and proposal that led to the $115 million Aireon program win. The Aireon contract for 81 ADS-B payloads represents the largest implementation of a hosted payload solution to date and positions Harris as a leader in the hosted payload market. The team’s effort involved blending antenna, RF, and signal processing technologies into a mission solution for enhancing current air traffic surveillance throughout the world. Team members drew upon previous IRAD and program experience in reconfigurable payloads to craft a technically optimal and affordable solution. The architecture also accommodates other missions, which has led to another program win and two additional opportunities.

Dale WrightDale is the chief systems engineer for the Pitch Black program, valued at more than $86 million. This program—which is proving a first-ever capability and a foundation for expansion into next-generation missions—is critical to the growth of the Strategic Systems product line. Over the past year, Dale has established a solid architecture and specification flow, and has articulated clean interface definitions to the government and associated contractors. Dale established a strong systems team to develop hardware and software systems products, support risk management, and mature the Pitch Black concept of operations. The program recently completed a PDR milestone, and the customer gave high commendations on the technical rigor of the solution and exceptional work by the team. In addition to Dale’s role on Pitch Black, he has been instrumental in the pursuit of new business across the product line. Dale was one of the key authors for two critical pursuits, Blackbox II and Autobahn, representing more than $350 million in new business.

David AllenAs chief technologist of the Proprietary Programs’ Special Comms program area, David led the successful pursuit of two multi-year IDIQ contracts valued at $43 million. His efforts have positioned Harris as a key player in Special Comms. Within the customer base, David is well respected as a community asset and has been key to the ongoing success of the Raccoon/Orion program and the execution of more than $105 million of business.

Jim RingroseIn his new role as software architect for the Strategic Systems product line, Jim has transformed both the Apollo and Zeus customers’ opinions of the Harris software capabilities. During the past year, Jim has set the vision and led the development of a comprehensive, modernized mission management software framework for Strategic Systems. The updated command and control architecture and innovative graphical user interfaces are being touted as the “best of breed” across the customer community. This turnaround is critical as we compete at a higher value proposition and pursue our strategic plan of being the lead system integrator for our customer’s current and next-generation missions.

Ronnie Fleshman and and Brandon HeltonRonnie and Brandon developed, designed, and installed an automated data tier solution that automatically moves data from more expensive storage to less expensive storage, based on policies. This solution has three major benefits: 1) simplified file access through file virtualization by decoupling the logical access to files and abstracting the physical file storage infrastructure from users; 2) policy configuration to automate storage tiering of files based on business value, resulted in increased storage efficiencies, better capacity utilization, and significantly reduced storage costs; and 3) increased operational and architectural flexibility with dynamic capacity balancing, nondisruptive data migrations, decreased backup of redundant data, lower administrative overhead, and deferred additional high cost/high performance storage purchases. This project is estimated to yield $2 million in savings over 5 years.

Frank MorganFrank is the team leader for back-end services for the National Security Agency’s (NSA’s) CMM program, handling complex data integration and user requests. The NSA’s Engineering Review Board noted his work as a “great example for others to emulate.” Due to Frank’s efforts, CMM has received three consecutive 100% award fees.



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Bartow WillinghamBartow has demonstrated superb technical and leadership skills, meeting exceptionally challenging customer requirements in developing three new C4ISR products on the Tahoe and KeyStone programs. These products form the core of a new C4ISR product family and represent a combined $43 million of customer product investment. Bartow’s outstanding performance has contributed significantly to Harris achieving program award fees of greater than 90% on the Keystone program. Follow-on product orders have resulted in $2 million of FY’13 product revenue and a projection of $30 million of product revenue over the next 5 years.

Burt GordonBurt has been the key technical lead for activities spanning the ISR and Tactical Cellular product lines. As the project engineer on the CrossBow software development project, Burt managed a team of more than 12 engineers and a budget of $2.5 million, delivering the first release of software for CrossBow. He successfully managed the team to meet an aggressive schedule, allowing C4ISR to meet its FY’12 financial commitments by delivering $3 million of CrossBow product. CrossBow has continued its strong sales, generating $5 million of sales, with a projection of $65 million of sales over the product’s life. Within the Tactical Cellular product line, Burt’s role as chief software engineer on the KnightHawk product was critical to delivering the market’s first ruggedized portable base station. Burt was key to architecting, developing, and delivering the embedded software. His efforts helped lead to $10 million in KnightHawk sales. Burt also leveraged his CrossBow experience for the successful integration of the cellular communications and ISR technologies to create the DarkKnight concept. He filled both the project engineering and system engineering roles, generated requirements, created the architecture, provided product manufacturing oversight, and led a diverse engineering and operations team. This product has generated $630,000 in sales to date and is currently a strong leveraging point for the ISR product line to gain entry into a major Army G2 Program of Record, which is projected to have $5 million in sales over the SGP. In addition, Burt’s technical leadership enabled the first cellular base station manpack, the KnightLite. His concept, prototype, and final product have positioned Harris as the lead in the man-portable tactical cellular market. KnightLite is expected to generate an initial $752,000 of sales; projections for FY’13 sales are $1.2 million, with $20 million projected over the Strategic Growth Plan (SGP). Burt has had a dramatic, positive impact on key products that have yielded $28 million in sales to date and are projected to yield more than $100 million in sales over the SGP.

Steve LinkSteve provided the technical leadership to shape the National Air Space (NAS) Enterprise Management System (NEMS) proposal within the Mission Critical Networks business area. He worked with the customer to architect the best solution, providing several options and contract line items to meet the customer’s need for flexibility. Steve led the team on both the technical and cost proposals, culminating in a $65 million award. Currently, the FAA is ordering NEMS services to meet its needs and to grow the capabilities within the NAS to support System Wide Enterprise Management (SWIM).

Jeff Philo and Tim YostJeff and Tim teamed to generate a concept and sell a unique solution to enhance a mission for one of our classified programs. Their efforts led to a $55 million win for Harris and provides our customer with a critical capability that was not previously available. Jeff and Tim leveraged their multimission knowledge to generate a mission solution and architecture compatible with the current system architecture. The solution leverages previous receiver, feed, and antenna experience and advances our technical capabilities. Their efforts leveraged our space heritage into important new business for Harris and establish Harris as a mission level solution provider.

Phil Risner and Greg TurnerGreg is the chief systems engineer and Phil is the project engineer for the Next Generation Jammer (NGJ) and Future Electronic Attack (FEA) programs. Greg is responsible for key TRL 4 and TRL 5 Navy technology demonstrations of the phased array components and sub-arrays, and Phil is responsible for scheduling and driving hardware development. Under Greg and Phil’s technical leadership the NGJ program met nine of nine Navy demonstrations on schedule, achieving TRL 4 and TRL 5 objectives and successfully completing critical end-to-end demonstrations. Greg and Phil’s efforts resulted in sustaining and growing $50 million in business for Harris and established Harris as a Navy and BAE partner for winning and executing the much larger EMD and production programs.

Kurt ZimmermanIn just 13 months, Kurt led the development of the new Seeker 1.3-meter antenna product from concept through initial production. Kurt recognized the need for a compact, portable SATCOM antenna and created the original Seeker concept. Beginning in October 2011, he led an IRAD team to turn his concept into a working prototype, which was developed 4 months later. In 2012, he and his team expanded the system design to include X-band and Ku-band capabilities, with a path to Ka-band. The team also introduced supporting features such as parts interchangeability, design-to-cost, and size and weight reductions to allow packout of a dual-band system in two 70-pound airline-checkable cases. Customers from the U.S. Special Operations Command, the U.S. Joint Communications Unit, Sweden, and the New Zealand military have expressed interest in the product. Seeker sales are expected to grow from more than $2.5 million in FY’13 to more than $12 million in FY’15.

David Langhorne David demonstrated outstanding technical leadership in support of the Small Secure Data Link (SSDL) and Small Tactical Terminal (STT) products and the LRASM program. His ability to quickly come up to speed on the task at hand, his team management skills, and his attention to detail allowed him to step into a leadership role on the SSDL and STT products while still executing a project engineering role on LRASM. David’s guidance has positioned the team to successfully release the 3.1 Wideband SSDL and STT products. His willingness to take on tasks beyond his primary assignment—such as helping with NSA CDRLs , communicating with Harris’ RF Communications segment working with ViaSat, and managing hardware assets—allowed the team to execute to a difficult schedule. Without David’s efforts, STT would not have been selected by the Apache program to provide their critical air-to-air and air-to-ground situational awareness and communications, supporting our troops in the air and on the ground. SSDL and STT provide Harris entrance into a $1 billion military airborne radio market. Thanks to David’s work, Harris is in a great position to capture more than $100 million through these products over the next 5 years.


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2004 Jack Needham

2012 Steve Mathe

2011 Lelia Jenkins-Rockwood

2008 Adam Zaricki

2007 James (Monty) Montgomery

2009 Bill Summers

2010 Jeff Nartatez

2003 David Grider

2001 Bill Summers

2002 Jan Lawrence

2005 Pat Bentley

2006 Tom Wells

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