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SS systems suppOrt TS Helps Warfighters Transition to Civilian Careers By Michelle Bohlen N orthrop Grumman’s Operation IMPACT (Injured Military Pursuing Assisted Career Transition) is making a difference across the country, providing support to members of the Armed Forces who have been severely injured serving in the Global War on Terror. Launched in May 2005, the program has contacted more than 500 injured service members and is actively working with more than 100 job-ready individuals and others awaiting medical release from the military. Winner of the U.S. Secretary of Labor’s New Freedom Initiative Award and 2008 nominee for the California Employer Advisory Committee Employer of the Year, Operation IMPACT has helped many wounded warriors return to civilian life and obtain employment. If an injured service member is unable to work due to the severity of his/her injuries, Operation IMPACT works with the family’s primary wage earner to identify career opportunities within Northrop Grumman. According to Duane Hardesty, who serves as the program’s outreach director, Operation IMPACT is the only program of its kind in the country. Since the program’s inception, 36 Northrop Grumman job offers have been extended, of which 30 were accepted; currently Technical Services has placed six candidates. Hardesty encourages all capture and proposal managers to leverage the program’s outstanding reputation and the Freedom Award in all TS proposals, but more importantly, place qualified soldiers transitioning from the military into available positions throughout the sector. Read more about this award-winning program by visiting the Operation IMPACT Web site at: http://operationimpact.ms.northropgrumman.com. T S 1 2 Northrop Grumman TS Sponsors Air Force Vanguard Award t a recent award’s reception, sponsored by Technical Services, U.S. Air Force Technical Sgt. Clinton J. Beck was honored with this year’s Vanguard Award, bestowed by the Air Force’s Noncommissioned Officers Association. Glenn Lebak of Human Resources, representing TS at the reception, presented Beck with the Vanguard Award. Beck distinguished himself as a pararescueman and was living testimony to the pararescue motto – “that others may live” – when he put his life on the line to rescue and provide lifesaving medical attention to two Afghan girls who had been injured during a firefight between U.S. forces and the Taliban. With an intense firefight ongoing, Beck ignored the risk of personal injury and sprinted across the battlefield to a 14-year-old Afghan girl who’d been shot and was bleeding heavily. TS A 1 Technical Services employee Sgt. Justin Kautz (U.S. Army retired) meets with President George Bush while undergoing rehabilitation at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Kautz works as an intelligence analyst and trainer at the Fort Hood Battle Command Training Center in Killeen, Texas. Technical Service employee retired U.S. Marine Nevin Garcia works as a technical document assistant in Albuquerque, N.M. Technical Sgt. Clinton Beck (third from left) receives his award. Also pictured are Glenn Gene Overstreet, NCOA president, on the far left; Glenn Lebak, Carrie Beck, Beck’s wife; and Command Chief Master Sgt. Steve Hutton. Also representing TS but not pictured were Kim Miller and Kaye Stewart-Bailey of TS Human Resources. 2 3 20 Technical Services Magazine • Summer 2008 http://operationimpact.ms.northropgrumman.com

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Technical Services - Summer 2008 Contents President’s Column Second Quarter Results TS Wins Key ID/IQ Contracts Seamless Partnering and Exceptional Performance: Two Defining Traits of the U.K. AWACS Program TS Engineers Investigate B-2 Crash Missile Logistics Support Operation Up and Running Lake Charles Expands Product Support Global Hawk Assists Firefighting Efforts TS Delivers Technology for Moon Mission Joint Venture Teammates Recognized for Service Milestones TS Trains Peacekeepers in Seven African Nations TS Trainers Provide Mission Support; TS Awarded Digital Leader Contract TS Offers Valuable Training Services to Soldiers Live-Fire Training at Fort Hood Naval and Marine Aviators Hone Their Skills GEODSS Celebrates 30 Years; Wallops Island Shoulder to Shoulder – Wounded Warriors I’m In! TS Transitions to One Source; Scholarship Winners Announced TS in Colorado Springs; Ethics Awareness Week

Technical Services - Summer 2008

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