I II I May 9,1986 anzanar commemorates artime imprisonment Again taking place this year was the pilgrimage to Manzanar, one of the reloca- tion camps to which Japanese (even first and second generation American-born Japanese) were sent during World War IT. The pilgrimage, held each spring, honors the memory of those who were incarcer- ated in camps throughout the West for the duration of the war despite there never be- ing any evidence of any sabotage or es- pionage by any American of Japanese de- scent; in fact, the Division of the United Stales Army most decorated for outstan- ding heroism during the was was the one comprised mainly of those of Japanese de- scent. memorative plaque noting that Manzanar has been declared a National Historic umdmark. Only a few ruins remain on the site. It's still possible to find foundations of the buildings used to house the 10,000 men, women and children who spent the war years there. The recreation building built by those interned is in use by Inyo County to house road equipment. A few stone walls are left, showing where guards' quarters were located and also where a Japanese garden was established. At the cemetary at the far northwest border of the camp, a shrine com- memorates those who lived and died at Manzanar. Visitors to the camp are asked not to disturb any of the remaining ruins. RESPECT PAID - Visitors attending the annual pilgrimage memorializing those who were held in the Japanese relocation camp at Manzanar during World War II spend a solemn moment at the shrine in the cemetary of the camp. - Photo by John Ito Manzanar is located on Highway 395, be- tween Lone Pine and Independence. En- trance of the camp site is denoted by the stone buildings at the road in and a com- Library offers user bargains In an effort to help stem the rise of prices, the Center Library is offering high interest loans to its patrons. The Center Library urges patrons to ig- nore the economists and borrow. borrow. borrow...from the library and take advan- tage of its outstanding ,'alues. From books to records, the library has the latest best sellers and the oldest classics. Why spend $10 or more for a book, $8 for an album or over $1 for a magazine when you can find it in the library for free ? The library also houses an extensive col- lection of how-to books for the novice plumber, electrician, mechanic, carpenter or others who are doing tasks themselves for which they used to pay. Other ways to save in the library is to use the Consumer Reports and Consulners' Research Magazine to help you bt.y wisely. uCashing in at the checkout," by Susan Samtur discusses the use of coupons for savings at the supermarket. Bill Fettkether, Cnde 3452, hired at NOTS/NWC November I, 1960; estimated date of retirement May 22, 1986. Max Fri. 91 Sat. 82 Sun. 75 Mon. 80 Tues. 68 Wed. 76 Thurs. 81 . . . .Ha .... Lb_ ar' MIn 51 59 50 40 52 45 40 Peak Gust 23 knots 32 knots 28 knots 37 knots 39 knots 19 knots 14 knots All measurements are made at Annitage \irfield. WACOM to install officers Installation of officers will highlight the last meeting of the year for the Women·s Auxiliary of the Corrunissioned Officers' Mess on Tuesday. Entertainment for the meeting will be provided by the humor and music of Gerald Stem. Stem has perfonned in opera and musical comedy, and on both concert stage and stage. He will be accompdnied at thp. piano by Bernice Ashdown. Officers to be installed include Fayelene Thelen, president; Eleanor Lotee, vice president/program chairman; Cecile Biery, secretary; and Jan Van Aken, treasurer. Tina Knemeyer, Parlamen- tarian, will install the officers. The day begins with a social hour at 11 a.m. at the Corrunissioned Officers' Mess. Lunch will be a cold buffet, with pineapple cake for dessert. The lunch is open to WACOM members and their guests only. Reservations should be made by telephoning 446-4324 or 446-3383. COM Membership Night planned In the May Roadrunner, due to a printing error, the date and time of the Corrunis- sioned Officers' Mess Membership Night were erroneously printed. The correct time and date for the COM Membership Night is Friday, May 16, from 6to 9p.m. The evening promises to be a foo one. begilming with a barbecue dinner on the patio. The menu features a chicken and rib buffet and includes salad har, haked beans, corn on the cob and corn bread and honey. Following dinner, members are invited to stay for dancing from 8 to 12 p.m. Reservations are requested by May 14 and may be made by calling the COM office at 446-2549. Enjoy a Mother's Day Buffet at the Chief Petty Officers' Mess this Sunday, from 12 noon through 4 p.m. Sink your teeth into an all you can eat salad bar, succulent steam- boat round of beef, roast turkey with all the trimmings and ice cream dessert. Price of this delicious meal is only $5.75 for people 12 and over; and half price for people 11 and under. Reservations are recommended not later than close of business tonight (Fri- day ). +++ Just for Mom: the Commissioned Officers' Mess is offering a fantastic Mother's Day Buffet this Sunday from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. In Mom·s honor, the COM is offering shrimp Newburg, scrambled eggs, french toast, bacon and sausage, S.O.S., biscuits, ham, turkey and all the trimmings, a variety of salads and assorted deserts. Price of this unique offer is $4.95 for adults, $2.95 for children aged 7-12, $1.95 for children aged 2-6 and children under 2 eat free. Reservations are required by the close of business today (Friday). +++ Begin the weekend right with a steak and shrimp dinner at the Enlisted Mess tonight. Dinner will be served from 5:30 to 9 p.m. +++ Don Dwiggins, distinguished aviation writer and senior editor nf "Homebuill Air- craft" will be the guest speaker at tonight's meeting of the Experimental Aircraft Association. He will speak on trends in homebuilts. This month's meeting was changed to tonight at 7 p.m. at the Kern County Library so that Dwiggins could be the speaker. Since the library will be closed, it will be necessary to enter through the conference room back door on the west side of the building. NEXNews Since swimming season is nearly here (despite the winds and weather this week), now is the time to head to the Navy Ex- change to get beach towels, swim suits, lounge chairs and suntan lotions. A wide range of all of these are now on hand for NEX patrons to make their selections. Everyone on the Center can enjoy the other special being promoted by the Navy Exchange for the month of May. The Plaza snack bar will feature deli specials throughout the month for those who are hungry and like good food. FRIDAY, MONDAY MAY9, 12 "A CHORUS LINE" Starring Michael Oouglasarw:l Janet Jones (MusicallOram... fated PG-13, 118 min.) SATURDAY Mlyl0 SUNDAY " FIX" Slamog Bryan arown and Brian Dennehy (Thnller. rated R, 108 min.) " lOt DALMATIONS" (Animation. ,ated G. 19 min.) MAYtl WEDNESDAY MAY U FRIDAY " FEVER PITCH" Staning Ryan O·Neal and Catherine Hicks (Drama. rated R. 95 min.) " 'RON EAGLE" Slamng Louis Gosset Jr and Jason Gednck (Action. ,..ted PG·13. ,17 min.) MAY us ................................................... .................................................... * u .s . Go", r"menl PrI"hn9 OIl'Ct : i 986 No. 40004 FROM TO: PLACE STAMP HERE - New Technical Director talks 'about NWC future .he Rocketeer asked Gerry Schiefer, c:w Technical Director, for an inteniew so that those who do not know him have the opportunity to learn about the Center's. top civilian.) " Like everybody else, I came to China Lake for 4 years and no more," says Gerry Schiefer, the Center's Technical Director as of last weekend. "I came here because I was told that I could get good, responsible work early, and this was something in which I was interested. "I didn't like this area originally because I'd grown up in Zion National Park where my father was a ranger, and where there were lots of trees. When I came here, I didn't like the desert, but I loved the work. Now, however, you'd have to drag me out. I like the climate, the desert living and the proximity to the mountains.,. His home code as a Junior Professional employee was at the Supersonic Naval Ordnance Research Tract (SNORT), and his early work was with instrumentation One JP tour was doing instrumentation on a variable thrust engine. "That," he says, "is the capability that helped get us to the moon and most people don't know that the basic research on the engine concept was done here." The Shrike program was just starting and a few months after Schiefer completed his Junior Professional year he moved to work on it, working for Jack Russell, who is now the Test and Evaluation Director at NWC. "Even though I was working on only one program during the next nine years, I was given broad responsibility and exposure. It was good preparation for senior manage- ment. Neither Bill Porter nor I ever headed a line division, but we both headed a pro- gram office, and the number of people that you're in charge of directly and indirectly under our matrix management system gives very broad experience. "I was in at the introduction of Shrike to combat in February !'l65. I went to Viet- nam with the lnissiles, worked ·. -nth the maintenance crews and trained tl,e pilots. This was a very significant experience for me. I found that something I'd ·helped design saved our pilot's lives." Schiefer says that he went back to Viet- nam five times. "I really learned opera- tional requirements. It was a great school for me. Shrike let me go from inception of the weapon to combat use." As an aside, he notes, "I really think we j(Continued on Page 7) • ~--------~==~==~~-~ Low Cost Seeker brings TO Awards to Code 35 OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCES - During a recent cermony in the Electronic Warfare Department office, Paul Homer, head 'Of Code 35; Burrell Hays, recently retired as Technical Officer; and Center Commander, Capt. K.A. Dickerson, join with winners of the Technical Director's Award, George Hoppus, Karen Higgins and Richard Fowler. The fourth person honored for their outstanding work on the Low Cost Seeker, Jack Johantgen, was unable to be present for the ceremony. - Photo by PH2 Rick Moore. Maples, Morey team up forhonor Outstanding teamwork that provided the leadership and technical guidance resulting in the Trident II Vertical Test Facility and Radiographic Inspection Facility earned Crill Maples and Rolland J. Morey the Technical Director's Award. "You both did an outstanding job," Bur- rell W. Hays, NWC Technical Director, told the two men at a small gathering held at their office Tuesday. Hays continued, "Nobody will really ap- preciate for 10 years how well engineered and how versatile these facilities are. You did it the China Lake way - two to three people had an idea, sold it, had the courage to take it on and then did it. And did it well." He commended their ingenuity, their "can do" spirit and the perspiration it took to get the job done. "That's a lot of hard work," Hays noted. The nomination for the award was writ- ten by Dick Boyd, hcad of the Range Department, where Mapl('s and Morey are, respectively, head and associate head of the Ordnance Test and Evaluation Division. Boyd wrote, in part, "This outstanding managerial team was responsible for the concepts, technical innovations and overall coordination for both facilities, from initial design through the mechanical and struc- tural development. the Military Construc- (Continued on Page 3) Chilton earns SPAWAR recognition Aviation Electrician's Mate Third Class Marty D. Chilton, Sailor of the Year for the Naval Weapons Center, has been named 1986 Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command Shore Sailor of the Year by Vice Admiral Glenwood Clark, Commander Space and Naval Wanare Systems Com- mand. In a letter to Petty Officer Chilton. Ad- miral Clark said, '·your superior pen or· mance in carrying out your professional responsibilities and dedication to the Navy and your conunooity as reflected in your Conunand's nomination was exceptional." A native of Mount Airy, North Carolina, Petty Officer Chilton is the son of Radford and Oleeta Chilton, and a graduate of North Surry High School in Mount Airy. AE3 Chilton joined the Navy in August, 1983 to pursue his education in a technical field, After completion of boot camp at Orlando, Fla., Petty Officer Chilton was meritoriously advanced to ainnan appren· tice and assigned to .•A" school for training as an aviation electrician. He has becn assigned to the Naval Weapons Center since completion of his training and is currently an F/A-18 Hornet plane captain. In addition to recognition as NWC Sailor of the Year, Petty Officer Chilton was earlier named NWC Sailor of the Quarter and Plane Captain of the Month of the Center's Aircraft Department. (Continued on Poge 5) As Burrell W. Hays, NWC Technical Director, presented Cour Electronic War- Care Department personnel with Technical Director's Awards on April 3D, he noted that he had a great deal of empathy for the program for which they earned those awards - the HARM Low Cost Seeker (LCS) program. Earning the awards were George W. Hoppus, John Johantgen, Richard Fowler and Karen Higgins. They were recognized for their work in designing and engineering the HARM LCS missile guidance section. Hays said the work of this team has helped prove what Secretary of the Navy John Lehman wanted, that a different kind of acquisition style was possible for the Navy that would result in major cost sav· ings. "The Center felt confident that the people here could make this new way of handling weapon acquisition happen because we have the talent needed, from technical tal- ent to management," Hays said. "We stepped up to the challenge and proved it could be done, and we're meeting the schedule set... He said that he felt this was possible because "We're a team, a family. that wfOrks together. The pressures are still on with this program, but I know you can con- tinue to make it happen and to get the job done." The letter of nomination writtcn by Paul II. Homer, head of the Electronic Warfare Department, explained that the HARM LCS missile guidance section has ~er designed to replace the baseline HARM guidance section while conforming to hasic HARM rwrformance. readiness and !=upportability characteristics. Improved R'" technology in the HARM LCS redllC'f's complexity, simplifies manufacturing proc\'sses and lowers recurring and li£e-cycle costs while significantly improving the weapon's ca- pabilities. Hays noted that although the team func- tioned as a group. each played a significant separate role. Fowler was credited with the design; Johantgen with superb technical work, Hoppus, technical management; ·and Mrs. Higgins with a major software effort. Hoppus. a supervisory aerospace engineer, holds a master's degree in systems technology from the Naval Postgraduate School. He has been on board since 1966. Johantgen, a supervisory elec- tronics engineer. holds a degree in physiCS. He has been at China Lake since 1959. Fowler, an electronics engineer, has been at China Lake since 1969. Mrs. Higgins, a supervisory electronics engineer, holds a master's degree in that field. She has been a Center employee since 1973. • , OCR Text: I II I May 9,1986 anzanar commemorates artime imprisonment Again taking place this year was the pilgrimage to Manzanar, one of the reloca- tion camps to which Japanese (even first and second generation American-born Japanese) were sent during World War IT. The pilgrimage, held each spring, honors the memory of those who were incarcer- ated in camps throughout the West for the duration of the war despite there never be- ing any evidence of any sabotage or es- pionage by any American of Japanese de- scent; in fact, the Division of the United Stales Army most decorated for outstan- ding heroism during the was was the one comprised mainly of those of Japanese de- scent. memorative plaque noting that Manzanar has been declared a National Historic umdmark. Only a few ruins remain on the site. It's still possible to find foundations of the buildings used to house the 10,000 men, women and children who spent the war years there. The recreation building built by those interned is in use by Inyo County to house road equipment. A few stone walls are left, showing where guards' quarters were located and also where a Japanese garden was established. At the cemetary at the far northwest border of the camp, a shrine com- memorates those who lived and died at Manzanar. Visitors to the camp are asked not to disturb any of the remaining ruins. RESPECT PAID - Visitors attending the annual pilgrimage memorializing those who were held in the Japanese relocation camp at Manzanar during World War II spend a solemn moment at the shrine in the cemetary of the camp. - Photo by John Ito Manzanar is located on Highway 395, be- tween Lone Pine and Independence. En- trance of the camp site is denoted by the stone buildings at the road in and a com- Library offers user bargains In an effort to help stem the rise of prices, the Center Library is offering high interest loans to its patrons. The Center Library urges patrons to ig- nore the economists and borrow. borrow. borrow...from the library and take advan- tage of its outstanding ,'alues. From books to records, the library has the latest best sellers and the oldest classics. Why spend $10 or more for a book, $8 for an album or over $1 for a magazine when you can find it in the library for free ? The library also houses an extensive col- lection of how-to books for the novice plumber, electrician, mechanic, carpenter or others who are doing tasks themselves for which they used to pay. Other ways to save in the library is to use the Consumer Reports and Consulners' Research Magazine to help you bt.y wisely. uCashing in at the checkout," by Susan Samtur discusses the use of coupons for savings at the supermarket. Bill Fettkether, Cnde 3452, hired at NOTS/NWC November I, 1960; estimated date of retirement May 22, 1986. Max Fri. 91 Sat. 82 Sun. 75 Mon. 80 Tues. 68 Wed. 76 Thurs. 81 . . . .Ha .... Lb_ ar' MIn 51 59 50 40 52 45 40 Peak Gust 23 knots 32 knots 28 knots 37 knots 39 knots 19 knots 14 knots All measurements are made at Annitage \irfield. WACOM to install officers Installation of officers will highlight the last meeting of the year for the Women·s Auxiliary of the Corrunissioned Officers' Mess on Tuesday. Entertainment for the meeting will be provided by the humor and music of Gerald Stem. Stem has perfonned in opera and musical comedy, and on both concert stage and stage. He will be accompdnied at thp. piano by Bernice Ashdown. Officers to be installed include Fayelene Thelen, president; Eleanor Lotee, vice president/program chairman; Cecile Biery, secretary; and Jan Van Aken, treasurer. Tina Knemeyer, Parlamen- tarian, will install the officers. The day begins with a social hour at 11 a.m. at the Corrunissioned Officers' Mess. Lunch will be a cold buffet, with pineapple cake for dessert. The lunch is open to WACOM members and their guests only. Reservations should be made by telephoning 446-4324 or 446-3383. COM Membership Night planned In the May Roadrunner, due to a printing error, the date and time of the Corrunis- sioned Officers' Mess Membership Night were erroneously printed. The correct time and date for the COM Membership Night is Friday, May 16, from 6to 9p.m. The evening promises to be a foo one. begilming with a barbecue dinner on the patio. The menu features a chicken and rib buffet and includes salad har, haked beans, corn on the cob and corn bread and honey. Following dinner, members are invited to stay for dancing from 8 to 12 p.m. Reservations are requested by May 14 and may be made by calling the COM office at 446-2549. Enjoy a Mother's Day Buffet at the Chief Petty Officers' Mess this Sunday, from 12 noon through 4 p.m. Sink your teeth into an all you can eat salad bar, succulent steam- boat round of beef, roast turkey with all the trimmings and ice cream dessert. Price of this delicious meal is only $5.75 for people 12 and over; and half price for people 11 and under. Reservations are recommended not later than close of business tonight (Fri- day ). Just for Mom: the Commissioned Officers' Mess is offering a fantastic Mother's Day Buffet this Sunday from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. In Mom·s honor, the COM is offering shrimp Newburg, scrambled eggs, french toast, bacon and sausage, S.O.S., biscuits, ham, turkey and all the trimmings, a variety of salads and assorted deserts. Price of this unique offer is $4.95 for adults, $2.95 for children aged 7-12, $1.95 for children aged 2-6 and children under 2 eat free. Reservations are required by the close of business today (Friday). Begin the weekend right with a steak and shrimp dinner at the Enlisted Mess tonight. Dinner will be served from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Don Dwiggins, distinguished aviation writer and senior editor nf "Homebuill Air- craft" will be the guest speaker at tonight's meeting of the Experimental Aircraft Association. He will speak on trends in homebuilts. This month's meeting was changed to tonight at 7 p.m. at the Kern County Library so that Dwiggins could be the speaker. Since the library will be closed, it will be necessary to enter through the conference room back door on the west side of the building. NEXNews Since swimming season is nearly here (despite the winds and weather this week), now is the time to head to the Navy Ex- change to get beach towels, swim suits, lounge chairs and suntan lotions. A wide range of all of these are now on hand for NEX patrons to make their selections. Everyone on the Center can enjoy the other special being promoted by the Navy Exchange for the month of May. The Plaza snack bar will feature deli specials throughout the month for those who are hungry and like good food. FRIDAY, MONDAY MAY9, 12 "A CHORUS LINE" Starring Michael Oouglasarw:l Janet Jones (MusicallOram... fated PG-13, 118 min.) SATURDAY Mlyl0 SUNDAY " FIX" Slamog Bryan arown and Brian Dennehy (Thnller. rated R, 108 min.) " lOt DALMATIONS" (Animation. ,ated G. 19 min.) MAYtl WEDNESDAY MAY U FRIDAY " FEVER PITCH" Staning Ryan O·Neal and Catherine Hicks (Drama. rated R. 95 min.) " 'RON EAGLE" Slamng Louis Gosset Jr and Jason Gednck (Action. ,..ted PG·13. ,17 min.) MAY us ................................................... .................................................... * u .s . Go", r"menl PrI"hn9 OIl'Ct : i 986 No. 40004 FROM TO: PLACE STAMP HERE - New Technical Director talks 'about NWC future .he Rocketeer asked Gerry Schiefer, c:w Technical Director, for an inteniew so that those who do not know him have the opportunity to learn about the Center's. top civilian.) " Like everybody else, I came to China Lake for 4 years and no more," says Gerry Schiefer, the Center's Technical Director as of last weekend. "I came here because I was told that I could get good, responsible work early, and this was something in which I was interested. "I didn't like this area originally because I'd grown up in Zion National Park where my father was a ranger, and where there were lots of trees. When I came here, I didn't like the desert, but I loved the work. Now, however, you'd have to drag me out. I like the climate, the desert living and the proximity to the mountains.,. His home code as a Junior Professional employee was at the Supersonic Naval Ordnance Research Tract (SNORT), and his early work was with instrumentation One JP tour was doing instrumentation on a variable thrust engine. "That," he says, "is the capability that helped get us to the moon and most people don't know that the basic research on the engine concept was done here." The Shrike program was just starting and a few months after Schiefer completed his Junior Professional year he moved to work on it, working for Jack Russell, who is now the Test and Evaluation Director at NWC. "Even though I was working on only one program during the next nine years, I was given broad responsibility and exposure. It was good preparation for senior manage- ment. Neither Bill Porter nor I ever headed a line division, but we both headed a pro- gram office, and the number of people that you're in charge of directly and indirectly under our matrix management system gives very broad experience. "I was in at the introduction of Shrike to combat in February !'l65. I went to Viet- nam with the lnissiles, worked ·. -nth the maintenance crews and trained tl,e pilots. This was a very significant experience for me. I found that something I'd ·helped design saved our pilot's lives." Schiefer says that he went back to Viet- nam five times. "I really learned opera- tional requirements. It was a great school for me. Shrike let me go from inception of the weapon to combat use." As an aside, he notes, "I really think we j(Continued on Page 7) • ~--------~==~==~~-~ Low Cost Seeker brings TO Awards to Code 35 OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCES - During a recent cermony in the Electronic Warfare Department office, Paul Homer, head 'Of Code 35; Burrell Hays, recently retired as Technical Officer; and Center Commander, Capt. K.A. Dickerson, join with winners of the Technical Director's Award, George Hoppus, Karen Higgins and Richard Fowler. The fourth person honored for their outstanding work on the Low Cost Seeker, Jack Johantgen, was unable to be present for the ceremony. - Photo by PH2 Rick Moore. Maples, Morey team up forhonor Outstanding teamwork that provided the leadership and technical guidance resulting in the Trident II Vertical Test Facility and Radiographic Inspection Facility earned Crill Maples and Rolland J. Morey the Technical Director's Award. "You both did an outstanding job," Bur- rell W. Hays, NWC Technical Director, told the two men at a small gathering held at their office Tuesday. Hays continued, "Nobody will really ap- preciate for 10 years how well engineered and how versatile these facilities are. You did it the China Lake way - two to three people had an idea, sold it, had the courage to take it on and then did it. And did it well." He commended their ingenuity, their "can do" spirit and the perspiration it took to get the job done. "That's a lot of hard work," Hays noted. The nomination for the award was writ- ten by Dick Boyd, hcad of the Range Department, where Mapl('s and Morey are, respectively, head and associate head of the Ordnance Test and Evaluation Division. Boyd wrote, in part, "This outstanding managerial team was responsible for the concepts, technical innovations and overall coordination for both facilities, from initial design through the mechanical and struc- tural development. the Military Construc- (Continued on Page 3) Chilton earns SPAWAR recognition Aviation Electrician's Mate Third Class Marty D. Chilton, Sailor of the Year for the Naval Weapons Center, has been named 1986 Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command Shore Sailor of the Year by Vice Admiral Glenwood Clark, Commander Space and Naval Wanare Systems Com- mand. In a letter to Petty Officer Chilton. Ad- miral Clark said, '·your superior pen or· mance in carrying out your professional responsibilities and dedication to the Navy and your conunooity as reflected in your Conunand's nomination was exceptional." A native of Mount Airy, North Carolina, Petty Officer Chilton is the son of Radford and Oleeta Chilton, and a graduate of North Surry High School in Mount Airy. AE3 Chilton joined the Navy in August, 1983 to pursue his education in a technical field, After completion of boot camp at Orlando, Fla., Petty Officer Chilton was meritoriously advanced to ainnan appren· tice and assigned to .•A" school for training as an aviation electrician. He has becn assigned to the Naval Weapons Center since completion of his training and is currently an F/A-18 Hornet plane captain. In addition to recognition as NWC Sailor of the Year, Petty Officer Chilton was earlier named NWC Sailor of the Quarter and Plane Captain of the Month of the Center's Aircraft Department. (Continued on Poge 5) As Burrell W. Hays, NWC Technical Director, presented Cour Electronic War- Care Department personnel with Technical Director's Awards on April 3D, he noted that he had a great deal of empathy for the program for which they earned those awards - the HARM Low Cost Seeker (LCS) program. Earning the awards were George W. Hoppus, John Johantgen, Richard Fowler and Karen Higgins. They were recognized for their work in designing and engineering the HARM LCS missile guidance section. Hays said the work of this team has helped prove what Secretary of the Navy John Lehman wanted, that a different kind of acquisition style was possible for the Navy that would result in major cost sav· ings. "The Center felt confident that the people here could make this new way of handling weapon acquisition happen because we have the talent needed, from technical tal- ent to management," Hays said. "We stepped up to the challenge and proved it could be done, and we're meeting the schedule set... He said that he felt this was possible because "We're a team, a family. that wfOrks together. The pressures are still on with this program, but I know you can con- tinue to make it happen and to get the job done." The letter of nomination writtcn by Paul II. Homer, head of the Electronic Warfare Department, explained that the HARM LCS missile guidance section has ~er designed to replace the baseline HARM guidance section while conforming to hasic HARM rwrformance. readiness and !=upportability characteristics. Improved R'" technology in the HARM LCS redllC'f's complexity, simplifies manufacturing proc\'sses and lowers recurring and li£e-cycle costs while significantly improving the weapon's ca- pabilities. Hays noted that although the team func- tioned as a group. each played a significant separate role. Fowler was credited with the design; Johantgen with superb technical work, Hoppus, technical management; ·and Mrs. Higgins with a major software effort. Hoppus. a supervisory aerospace engineer, holds a master's degree in systems technology from the Naval Postgraduate School. He has been on board since 1966. Johantgen, a supervisory elec- tronics engineer. holds a degree in physiCS. He has been at China Lake since 1959. Fowler, an electronics engineer, has been at China Lake since 1969. Mrs. Higgins, a supervisory electronics engineer, holds a master's degree in that field. She has been a Center employee since 1973. • , China Lake Museum,Rocketeer Newspaper,Rocketeer 1980s,Rocketeer 1986,Rktr5.9.1986.pdf,Rktr5.9.1986.pdf Page 1, Rktr5.9.1986.pdf Page 1