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2017 Black Engineer of the Year AWARD WINNERS
JOB: H-1 Lead Mission Systems Engineer and Mission Computer Project Lead Naval Air Systems Command Avionics Division
PROMISING ACCOMPLISHMENTS: In June 2013 Kwamé Marshall was assigned to the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, where he headed a project that increased the efficiency of data analysis and reporting for test events. Marshall created a method that could generate a quick-look report in 15 minutes instead of the normal two-week turnaround on data. Fully implemented, this procedure would save the test range more than $1 million a year.
WHAT HE DOES: Kwamé is an electrical engineer in the Naval Air Systems Command Avionics Division. Marshall is currently assigned to the H-1 Lead Mission Systems Engineer and Mission Computer Project Lead. He is responsible for production, sustainment, development, and retrofit of 12 systems for the three H-1 aircraft variants.
Kwamé Marshall Most Promising Engineer – Government
JOB: Principal Investigator for Research and Development Communications Division Space and Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, Pacific
PROMISING ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Dr. Justin James has served as the Principal Investigator of an adaptive multiresolution modulation (AMM)- capable modem for use in wireless communications. An AMM-capable modem will dramatically improve network performance in stressed Department of Defense environments. This is an important development for the military as it will benefit soldiers, sailors, and airmen around the world.
WHAT HE DOES: Dr. James is an engineer for Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific. SSC Pacific is a Navy research and development laboratory. As part of the laboratory, he performs research and supports programs in the areas of software defined radio (SDR), waveform porting, RF-over-networks, wideband code division multiple access, satellite communications, and unmanned systems.
HOW HE GOT TO SSC PACIFIC: After earning his Ph.D. at Prairie View A&M University in research related to tactical and emergency ad hoc wireless communications, networks, and cross-layer link adaptation strategies, Dr. James joined SSC Pacific as part of their New Professional program. He earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Tuskegee University. For his master’s, also from Tuskegee University, he focused on microelectronics and received the Bridge to the Doctorate Fellowship from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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HOW HE GOT TO NAVAIR: He began his career as a Department of Defense (DoD) contract electrical engineer intern. As an intern, Marshall worked on the development and testing of the algorithm for the Multi-Mission Tactical Tomahawk. His success in this area convinced the Office of Naval Research to continue the program. While with the Naval Air Training Systems Division in Orlando, FL, Marshall served as a DoD contractor electrical engineer on the P-8A Trainer program. He was responsible for testing the P-8A Operational Flight Trainer and the P-3 Tactical Operational Readiness Trainer.
Justin O. James, Ph.D. Most Promising Engineer – Government
CONFERENCE ISSUE 2017 I USBE&IT 39
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