STEALTH ENGINEER HONORED FOR WORK DOBRENZ RECIPIENT OF COMBAT AWARD.Byline: Daily News Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is an aerospace and defense conglomerate that is the result of the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company is the third largest defense contractor for the U.S. engineer Thomas L. Dobrenz was honored by the National Defense Industry Association for his contributions to stealth technology stealth technology, designs and materials engineered for the military purpose of avoiding detection by radar or any other electronic system. Stealth, or antidetection, technology is applied to vehicles (e.g. . The association presented its Combat Survivability sur·viv·a·ble adj. 1. Capable of surviving: survivable organisms in a hostile environment. 2. That can be survived: a survivable, but very serious, illness. Award for Technical Achievement to Dobrenz for his nearly 25 years of work at Northrop Grumman, helping design and develop stealth aircraft such as the B-2 bomber, the F-35 joint strike fighter and the X-47B combat unmanned air vehicle. The awards ceremony was part of the NDIA's annual aircraft ``survivability'' symposium in Monterey, where Dobrenz was also a featured speaker. ``Survivability'' describes the ability of a combat aircraft to complete its mission without being detected and destroyed. ``Tom Dobrenz's accomplishments in the field of low observable shave helped put Northrop Grumman at the forefront of this critical technology,'' said Gary W. Ervin, vice president for the company's Integrated Systems sector. ``When he started in the early 1980s, the very concept of stealth was highly classified, while today people expect stealth to be an inherent part of the design of any new combat aircraft.'' Dobrenz joined the company in 1980 shortly after graduating from Northrop University with a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering. In 1986, he was promoted to technical manager of low observables and special projects and in 1991 joined the B-2 program in advanced projects. From 1997 to 2001, he led the F-35 survivability team for JSF (JavaServerFaces) A standard framework of components for building rich user interfaces for Java applications. JavaServer Faces run on the server, but are displayed on the client. JSF - JavaServer Faces prime contractor Lockheed Martin, to whom Northrop Grumman is a principal partner. For the last three and a half years, he has directed the systems integration and survivability activities at the Integrated Systems sector, headquartered in El Segundo. He also contributed to the designs of Northrop Grumman's X-47A Pegasus unmanned technology demonstrator and the X-47B. Northrop Grumman will produce and flight-test three X-47B vehicles for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems, or J-UCAS, was the name for the joint U.S. Navy/U.S. Air Force unmanned combat air vehicle procurement project. The two vehicles involved in the project were the Boeing X-45 and Northrop Grumman X-47. concept demonstration program. In addition to his bachelor's degree, Dobrenz earned an MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration from the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college), seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students, and that number is steadily rising. . |
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