Bonnie Adams, an engineer at Lockheed Martin in Gaithersburg, Maryland, works on passive air surveillance sensors. 

Adams worked on the Silent Sentry program to develop an air surveillance sensor to detect and track airborne targets. She is active in the Penn State Women in Engineering Program and has created a website for young girls to learn about present day engineers as well as the aerospace and defense industries. 

Rhonda Carter is an embedded software engineer at Lockheed Martin in Manassas, Virginia. 

Carter’s duties in Naval Electronics and Surveillance Systems-Undersea Systems include a lead software role on advanced command, control and communication information systems. She has developed specific expertise in undersea acoustic systems of critical importance to our nation's defense. 

Pamela Daum, an engineer at Lockheed Martin in Liverpool, New York, is the lead systems engineer for an air surveillance system. 

Daum worked on a variety of challenging technical assignments including the design and manufacturing of Towed Array Acoustic Sensors. She spearheaded a team to establish a Women in Engineering event at Lockheed Martin Syracuse for 50 local tenth grade girls to encourage them to select engineering as a career. 

Michael Hertz, Ph.D., an engineer at Lockheed Martin in Manassas, Virginia, is co-inventor of a technology refresh projection tool. 

Hertz has worked on process improvement tasks that lead to millions of dollars in savings. In addition, the tool he co-invented enables design and systems engineers to conduct trade studies on proposed architectures and system configurations to optimize across cost and performance metrics 

Anthony Chu, an engineer at Lockheed Martin in Eagan, Minnesota, is lead hardware integrator of an air traffic automation system to be installed in seven sites in China. 

Chu has performed site readiness reviews at two of the seven sites in China and will return to perform the actual hardware integration of all components. Chu will supervise and train customer personnel at the first two sites so they will be able to then go the remaining five sites to conduct their own site readiness reviews and perform the hardware integration.

Yolanda Liu, an engineer at Lockheed Martin in Manassas, Virginia, manages the software development team on the Global Transportation Network, a system supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. 

Liu’s team built software that allows military personnel to better track their orders of vital supplies, troops, and assets. Their system applies enterprise web-based technologies to support deployed forces worldwide. 

Carolyn Markowski, an engineer at Lockheed Martin in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, is the Requirements Lead on the project lead for a sizeable software development effort for the Coast Guard’s Deepwater program. 

As the Requirements Lead, Markowski is responsible for verifying the integrity of Intelligence related requirements on the program. 

Blossom Baker, an engineer at Lockheed Martin in Rockville, Maryland, is an expert in air traffic management. This program is of great importance to homeland security and will modernize the nation's core air traffic control automation system, enhance security and provide new capabilities to increase efficiency and capacity.

Baker began her career as a test engineer for the Navy's sophisticated cruise missile, the Tomahawk. Her increasing skills in test engineering led to a transfer to Air Traffic Management where Baker performed testing of an international air traffic management system. 

Steve Ni, an engineer at Lockheed Martin in Gaithersburg, Maryland, develops test control procedures.

Ni developed automated test control procedures for rapid requirements testing and verification; developed imagery exploitation software; and integrated commercial hardware and software products for the Federal Aviation Administration. 

Chaunita Parks, an engineer at Lockheed Martin in Manassas, Virginia, is developing a way to monitor and capture middleware messages and timing measurements between submarine platforms. 

Parks was responsible for testing and integrating a significant portion of the Combat Control system for the country’s newest attack submarine, the USS Virginia. She helped to create and implement a novel process called Smartdisk to greatly minimize and reduce install and maintenance costs across the Virginia class fleet.

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