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Mr. John Summerford
Moderator
Mr. Summerford recently retired as Director of Business Development for
Lockheed Martin Corporation¡¯s Orlando, Florida operation after a 42 year
career in the aerospace industry. Mr. Summerford¡¯s career included more than
20 years with Texas Instruments in Dallas, Texas, in TI¡¯s Defense Systems and Electronics Group. In 1995, Mr. Summerford joined Lockheed Martin leading their Advanced Systems organization until his retirement earlier this year.
Over his career, he has worked extensively with lasers, infrared night vision, radar, and missile systems. Technology areas included directed energy, ultra-short pulse laser (USPL), passive millimeter wave radiometry, advanced infrared detector technology, adaptive optics, and carbon nano materials development. Led the proposal effort for a Precision Guidance Sensor for the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM).

Responsible for development and execution of a comprehensive marketing strategy for TI¡¯s missile business including the Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW), Paveway Laser Guided Bombs, the HARM missile, the Javelin Anti-Tank missile, and the target sight system (TSS) for the USMC AH-1Z helicopter fire control system.

Mr. Summerford served as Chairman of the Electronics Industries Association Multichip Module Division and is a graduate of the Defense Acquisition University¡¯s Executive Course.
Mr. G. Dean Clubb (Dean)
Independent Consultant specializing in strategies,
sustained competitive advantage, and productivity/quality enhancement programs.
Mr. Clubb earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering/Aeronautical Engineering, at the University of Missouri. n 1998 Mr. Clubb retired from Texas Instruments following 30 years of service in a variety of positions. When he retired he was an Executive Vice President of Texas Instruments (TI) and a member of the TI Strategy ILeadership Team, which focused on the long-term strategy of
the company. He was also President of the Digital Imaging business which is based on Digital Light Processing (DLP) and the patented Digital Micromirror Device.

Mr. Clubb was also chairman of the Texas Instruments Quality Leadership Team. This team is champion for TI¡¯s worldwide quality thrust, which focuses on accelerating improvement throughout TI and improving faster than the competition.

Mr. Clubb was previously President of the Systems Group which included the Defense Systems & Electronics Business (DS&E) and the Communications and Electronics Systems business (C&ES). DS& E was awarded the U.S. Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award in 1992.

Mr. Clubb joined TI in 1968 as a mechanical design engineer. He worked as a design engineer, project engineer, manufacturing manager, or program manager for major missile-related programs such as the Shrike and Harpoon missiles. In 1974, Mr. Clubb joined the HARM program, which he directed and managed until 1984.

Mr. Clubb is a former member of the Defense Science Board and the American Electronics Association. He has served as chairman of many task forces such as the Lean Aircraft Initiative. He is currently providing consulting services to several companies/government agencies and doing volunteer work for education and charity organizations.

Mr. Clubb is married to the former Linda Elam and they have one daughter, Lauren.Mr. and Mrs. Clubb reside in Plano, Texas, and Breckenridge, Colorado.

Dr. E. Glenn Gaustad
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, former Director of Engineering & Technology for the Raytheon Defense Systems Company.

Dr. Gaustad is founder and manager of G & G TECHCON LTD., offering technology, strategy, and management consulting services since January 2000. Dr. Gaustad is the CEO and a member of the board for Microelectronics Computing Corporation (MCC) in Austin, Texas, and is a partner of Incucom and Mustang Technology Group, L.P., and is an advisor to MicroTrakGPS, Polatomic,
CFDI, Geneva Aerospace, Commoca, Texas Instruments, MicroPak, Triquint, and Wirenix. He is a certified mentor at Startech and a member of the Executive leadership Team for PTC. Dr. Gaustad is a founder and past Chairman of the Board of the Texas Nanotechnology Initiative and has served on the Advisory Board and a past Board member of Zyvex Corporation.

Formerly, Dr. Gaustad was Vice President and Director of Engineering & Technology for the Raytheon Defense Systems Company ($16B business) and he was responsible for engineering, research and technology, and the deployment of strategies/ processes across the five business segments. Dr. Gaustad served on the board of MCC and HRL (formerly Hughes Research Laboratory). He was a member of the Raytheon Executive Management Transition Team for integrating the four acquired companies (TI Defense, Hughes Aircraft, E-Systems and Raytheon Defense) into one company.

Prior to the TI defense group being acquired by Raytheon in 1997, Dr. Gaustad was Vice President and Chief Technical Officer for the systems & Software Businesses of Texas Instruments ($8B business). He was manager of the Corporate Research Laboratories and the Advanced Technologies & Components Division ($250M P & L) in support of the Systems and Software businesses of TI in both military and commercial market segments. The principle research, development, design, and high-tech component manufacturing functions under his responsibility included RF and microwave systems, antennas, IR sensors, signal & image processing, software, and microelectronics. He co-chaired the Corporate R & D council for TI that was responsible for developing and implementing strategic technologies and engineering processes across the corporation. Dr. Gaustad joined Texas Instruments in 1965 as a member of the technical staff and held assignments in TI¡¯s defense and consumer businesses, including management of various research and development systems, new product development and profit and loss operations.

Dr. Gaustad has served on a Defense Science Board panel, four years on the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board and six years on the Army Science Board, on several engineering Advisory committees of the TAMU and UTA, and the Developmment Board of the University of Texas at Dallas. In 1993 he received the Texas A&M Engineering alumni Honor Award and in 1988 was named Outstanding Alumni from the University of Texas at Arlington. He is a life Senior Member of the IEEE.

He is married to the former Brenda Furr; they have three children.