Several Air Force Research Lab personnel received awards during the Black Engineer of the Year Conference in Baltimore, Md., according to a Feb. 25 release. Honored with a career achievement award, Lloyd Reshard is the Chief of Flight Vehicles Integration Branch at Eglin AFB, Fla. Named most promising engineer, Shawnee Pacley is a materials engineer in the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. Three AFRL personnel were named as modern day technology award winners: Capt. Rico Cody, chief of Tactical Data Links at Rome, N.Y.; Capt. Jermaine Sailsman, currently serving as executive officer to the director of the Space Vehicles Directorate, Kirtland AFB, N.M.; and Carla Willis, an electronic engineer with the Munitions Directorate at Eglin. (Wright-Patterson report by Laura Mays)
This year’s Association of the United States Army’s annual meeting buzzed with talk of countering the rapidly evolving drone threat facing the entire U.S. military, including the Air Force. Leaders and defense industry officials discussed the need for new approaches to procurement and employment of a new class of these…
