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Thank you for your many years of service to our warfighters and country. We applaud each of you for your exceptional contributions to the discipline of electronic warfare (EW). Because of your expertise and innovations, L3Harris is able to deliver the EW knowledge, technology and techniques customers rely on to dominate the electromagnetic spectrum.
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR L3HARRIS AOC AWARD WINNERS
L3HARRIS’ AOC 2022 AWARD WINNERS
Dominick Lagana
Distinguished Service Award
AOC Technology
Hall of Fame
Ed Mienko
Outstanding Achievement Award
Martin Apa
Distinguished Service Award
Robert Soni
Distinguished Service Award
Thomas Leshik
Medium-size Chapter of the Year
Garden State Chapter
ED
MIENKO
Recognized for over 30 years of service to our warfighters and country, during which he has researched, developed and fielded a wide range of cutting-edge technologies in areas spanning electronic warfare, electronic attack, nuclear monitoring, signals intelligence, radar and space defense
Distinguished Service Award (2021)
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Recognized for being a pioneer in the field of electronic warfare whose key contributions related to front-line, podded EW systems have been critical to the protection of our nation’s warfighters as well as allied coalition partners
Outstanding Achievement Award (2021)
LUDWIG
LOU
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Recognized as an industry expert whose 30-plus years of service to the Navy’s VAQ community and leadership in designing and building the universal exciter upgrade (UEU) that flies on all EA-18G aircraft for the U.S. Navy have been critical to the nation’s electronic attack capabilities
Also recognized by the Growler community as the 2021 top performing contractor for contributing the most to the technical development and improvement of the ALQ-99 Tactical Jamming System
Distinguished Service Award &
ALQ 99 Excellence Award (2021)
LAURIA
VINCE
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Awarded Medium-sized Chapter of the Year for the fourth consecutive year
Recognized for the greatest member increase in the northeastern region
Medium-size Chapter of the Year (2021)
CHAPTER
GARDEN
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STATE
Recognized for over 30 years of service to the warfighting community for being a key EW industry expert in the power supply and trans-mit capability of the ALQ-211, ALQ-214 and CAT Nulka systems. His leadership and know-ledge continue to provide solutions for some of the most difficult performance tasks.
Distinguished Service Award (2022)
LESHIK
THOMAS
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Recognized for over 30 years of service to the warfighting community for his industry ex-pertise of the F/A-18 IDECM enterprise. His knowledge on the test and integration of the IDECM ALQ-214 system has successfully guided multiple systems through design verification tests, environmental qualification and system tests.
Distinguished Service Award (2022)
SONI
ROBERT
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Recognized for 37 years of service to the warfighting community as a pioneer in the EW industry who was instrumental in introducing small form factor EW technology. His efforts resulted in one of the first successful flight demonstrations of an electronic attack payload on a small UAS.
Outstanding Achievement Award (2022)
APA
MARTIN
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Recognized for 37 years of service to the warfighting community for his industry expertise in EW systems engineering and advanced technology management. His steadfast leadership and dedication have continued to ensure electromagnetic spectrum dominance for the United States.
AOC Distinguished Service Award (2022)
LAGANA
DOMINICK
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Recognized for over 30 years of service to our warfighting community as a technology in-novator in electronic defense. With a career dedicated to applying science for the better-ment of our nation’s defense, he has researched, developed, and fielded a wide range of cutting-edge technologies, in areas spanning EW, electronic attack, nuclear monitoring, signals intelligence, radar and space defense.
AOC Technology Hall of Fame (2022)
MIENKO
ED
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Awarded Medium-sized Chapter of the Year for the fifth consecutive year
Medium-size Chapter of the Year (2022)
CHAPTER
GARDEN
STATE
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Medium-size Chapter of the Year
Garden State Chapter
Distinguished Service Award & ALQ 99 Excellence Award
Vince Lauria
Outstanding Achievement Award
Lou Ludwig
Distinguished Service Award
Ed Mienko
L3HARRIS’ AOC 2021 AWARD WINNERS
2021 Winners
2022 Winners
Medium-size Chapter of the Year
Garden State Chapter
Distinguished Service Award
Thomas Leshik
Distinguished Service Award
Robert Soni
Outstanding Achievement Award
Martin Apa
AOC Technology
Hall of Fame
Ed Mienko
Distinguished Service Award
Dominick Lagana
L3HARRIS’ AOC 2022 AWARD WINNERS
2021 Winners
Medium-size Chapter of the Year
Garden State Chapter
Distinguished Service Award & ALQ 99 Excellence Award
Vince Lauria
Outstanding Achievement Award
Lou Ludwig
Distinguished Service Award
Ed Mienko
L3HARRIS’ AOC 2021 AWARD WINNERS
Recognized for over 30 years of service to our warfighters and country, during which he has researched, developed and fielded a wide range of cutting-edge technologies in areas spanning electronic warfare, electronic attack, nuclear monitoring, signals intelligence, radar and space defense
Distinguished Service Award (2021)
MIENKO
ED
BACK
Recognized for over 30 years of service to our warfighters and country, during which he has researched, developed and fielded a wide range of cutting-edge technologies in areas spanning electronic warfare, electronic attack, nuclear monitoring, signals intelligence, radar and space defense
Distinguished Service Award (2021)
MIENKO
ED
BACK
Recognized for 37 years of service to the warfighting community for his industry expertise in EW systems engineering and advanced technology management.
His steadfast leadership and dedication have continued to ensure electromagnetic spectrum dominance for the United States.
Distinguished Service Award (2022)
LAGANA
DOMINICK
BACK
Recognized for 37 years of service to the warfighting community as a pioneer in the EW industry who was instrumental in introducing small form factor EW technology. His efforts resulted in one of the first successful flight demonstrations of an electronic attack payload on a small UAS.
Outstanding Achievement Award (2022)
APA
MARTIN
BACK
Recognized for over 30 years of service to the warfighting community for his industry expertise of the F/A-18 IDECM enterprise. His knowledge on the test and integration of the IDECM ALQ-214 system has successfully guided multiple systems through design verification tests, environmental qualification and system tests.
Distinguished Service Award (2022)
SONI
ROBERT
BACK
Awarded Medium-sized Chapter of the Year for the fourth consecutive year
Recognized for the greatest member increase in the northeastern region
Medium-size Chapter of the Year (2021)
CHAPTER
GARDEN
STATE
BACK
2021 Winners
Joseph W. Kearney Pioneer Award
Don Belmar
Certificate of Merit
Bob Filoramo
Medium-size Chapter of the Year
Garden State Chapter
Distinguished Service Award & ALQ 99 Excellence Award
Vince Lauria
Outstanding Achievement Award
Lou Ludwig
Distinguished Service Award
Ed Mienko
L3HARRIS’ AOC 2021 AWARD WINNERS
Recognized for over 30 years of service to our warfighters and country, during which he has researched, developed and fielded a wide range of cutting-edge technologies in areas spanning electronic warfare, electronic attack, nuclear monitoring, signals intelligence, radar and space defense
Distinguished Service Award (2021)
MIENKO
ED
BACK
Recognized for being a pioneer in the field of electronic warfare whose key contributions related to front-line, podded EW systems have been critical to the protection of our nation’s warfighters as well as allied coalition partners
Outstanding Achievement Award (2021)
LUDWIG
LOU
BACK
Recognized for 37 years of service to the warfighting community for his industry expertise in EW systems engineering and advanced technology management. His steadfast leadership and dedication have continued to ensure electromagnetic spectrum dominance for the United States.
Distinguished Service Award
(2022)
LAGANA
DOMINICK
BACK
Recognized for 37 years of service to the warfighting community as a pioneer in the EW industry who was instrumental in introducing small form factor EW technology. His efforts resulted in one of the first successful flight demonstrations of an electronic attack payload on a small UAS.
Outstanding Achievement Award
(2022)
APA
MARTIN
BACK
Recognized for over 30 years of service to the warfighting community for his industry ex-pertise of the F/A-18 IDECM enterprise. His knowledge on the test and integration of the IDECM ALQ-214 system has successfully guided multiple systems through design veri-fication tests, environmental qualification and system tests.
Distinguished Service Award
(2022)
SONI
ROBERT
BACK
Awarded Medium-sized Chapter of the Year for the fourth consecutive year
Recognized for the greatest member increase in the northeastern region
Medium-size Chapter of the Year (2021)
CHAPTER
GARDEN
STATE
BACK
Ed Mienko