Lockheed Martin Unit to Honor Superlative Employees in New Jersey, Kansas, Pennsylvania, and Virginia

CHERRY HILL, N.J., March 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin selected 10 employees from its Advanced Technology Laboratories (ATL) to receive that unit's highest award for superior performance in management, technology leadership, inventiveness, and support. About four percent of the unit's 235 employees receive the honor annually.

Lockheed Martin ATL honored the following employees: -- Greg Barnett, Merchantville, N.J., for developing and integrating radio-frequency technologies for the U.S. Army Communications- Electronics Command. -- Rick Buskens, Robbinsville, N.J., for developing advanced software processes and technologies for Lockheed Martin and for work on brain- inspired computing for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. -- Jason Cohen, Voorhees, N.J., for developing and leading advance software programs for the U.S. government. -- Jon Darvill, Philadelphia, Pa., for developing and leading technology in brain-inspired computing for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. -- Harold Dick, Leavenworth, Kan., for shaping warfighter-specific design of advanced cognitive aids for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Army. -- Rich Dickinson, Medford, N.J., for developing and implementing Intelligent Agent technology for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Navy. -- Mike Junod, Bensalem, Pa., for managing multiple advanced software programs for the U.S. government. -- Brian Kettler, Arlington, Va., for integrating social science-based computational models into advanced decision aids for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Department of Defense. -- Daniel Miksch, Turnersville, N.J., for outstanding performance as legal counsel. -- Susan Harkness Regli, Philadelphia, Pa., for outstanding technical development and leadership in user interfaces for the Office of Naval Research.

ATL will celebrate Honors Night at a black-tie dinner and dance with honorees and their companions on May 3, 2008, at the Adventure Aquarium, Camden, N.J. ATL's Lockheed Martin Senior Fellow Henry Mendenhall, Shamong, N.J., and Fellows Patrick Muckelbauer, Moorestown, N.J., and Carl Hein, Cherry Hill, N.J. also will attend.

ATL is an advanced computing, applied research and development asset of Lockheed Martin Corporation. It develops and applies advanced computing technologies for next-generation defense systems for Lockheed Martin, Department of Defense, and civil sector. Areas of interest include autonomous vehicles; network-centric operations; user-centered interfaces; dynamic, reconfigurable systems; and information exploitation. With its main office in Cherry Hill, N.J., ATL has sites in West Lake Village, Calif., Kennesaw, Ga., and Arlington, Va.

Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin employs about 140,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. The Corporation reported 2007 sales of $41.9 billion.

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