“Today, it’s super special because this is about champions, but this is about world champions and you’re world champions and you’re relevant. If you look what just happened this weekend, China had 12 warships, including their new carrier, exercising around Taiwan and having over 200 incursions of Taiwan’s flight zone. You are on the cusp of leading development and capability for us not to go to war and for us to deter China and Russia, what you’re doing here today and what you’ve been recognized for what you’re doing.” – Riki Ellison, April 12, 2023, Camden, New Jersey
“I’ll just say that ladies and gentlemen, this morning we were at Lockheed Martin and we watched some leaders grab an electrical socket and yank it. No, we did. We took pictures. I’m describing it perfectly. It was the 130th weapon system, the most successful Defense Department program ever, and certainly the best ship-building program in the history of the world. Our ships that we’re building today, delivering today will be here another 40 or 50 years. So that’s like, that’s crossing over a century of the AEGIS weapon system for which all of you are part of and many of you are now operating at sea. Can you imagine being part of a century of war-fighting capability? It’s extraordinary.” – Mr. Paul Mann, Director of Program Sea Based Weapons, Aegis BMD for MDA, April 12, 2023, Camden, New Jersey
We were honored to host our 7th Reception of Champions yesterday with the new civilian director of the Program Sea Based Weapons, Aegis BMD for MDA, Mr. Paul Mann, the Vice President of Lockheed Martin Rotary Mission Systems, Chauncey McIntosh, and the Commanding Officer of AEGIS Technical Representative (AEGIS TECHREP), Captain Sid Hodgson
We are honored to announce our New Jersey Champions that were recognized and awarded for their excellence in missile defense:
2023 New Jersey Warfighter Missile Defense Champions
FCA1 Wayman Roseman
FCA1 Whitnie Ingerson
OS1 Daniel Coll
FCA1 Joshua Foux
2023 New Jersey Engineer Missile Defense Champions
Dania Moslehy
Sarah Jaworski
Justin Ruegg
Scott Krause
Leah Hawley
Matt Marbach
Ryan Sheppard
Brian Dishaw
Kevin Kastner
Andrew Bean
Adam Kassim
Elliott Hudak
Thomas Nasto
Danny Moore
David Trinh
Matthew Parks
Carol Handy
Matt Kaplan
Eric Guidarelli
2023 New Jersey Aegis TechRep Missile Defense Champions
Zephyr Riendeau
FCA1 Kevin Grenald
LT Anthony Giancarli
OS2 Alfonzo Cisneros
We created the Michele Evans award in 2020 as a lasting tribute to Michele’s dedicated service to national defense. This award honors an engineer who delivered exceptional contributions and embodies Michele’s leadership legacy of tirelessly working to help make our world a safer place. Michele helped navigate her teams and programs in our ever-evolving industry with grace and gratitude to her employees. She recognized it was her obligation to reach out and personally mentor the next generation of leaders who would follow in her footsteps:
2023 Michele Evans Award for Best Engineer
Josh Hannings
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