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how we would plan to accomplish it. We must have done

OK because MDMSC won the program. All of the
missiles we delivered met the lofty performance
specifications and our LOT group learned a lot about how

to convert our technology into production manufacturing
capability.

BAD AND GOOD IN OUR ENVIRONMENT
There are bad things and good things about working in
this highly secured environment. Probably the worst thing

was that we could not discuss what we were doing or
accomplished with personnel not specifically cleared to

our programs. This, in many cases, included functional
supervisors of our assigned engineers and technicians.

This communication barrier always had the negative

effect of not easily defending performance reviews to
enable deserved pay raises and promotions of our people.

Dave Freeman and I found ways to circumvent those
supervisors and get fair treatment of our people by
finding a direct path to very high level, security briefed,

management folk for performance reviews and
associated pay raises and promotions. The good thing
was that our strict “need to know” security access

requirements moved a lot of bureaucracy out of our path