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named Staff Chief for a new Signals Analysis Office. Even though I didn’t
have a Signals background, I was able to create from scratch a functioning

staff, which provided the Chief and Deputy the administrative and analytic
support they needed. It was while serving as Staff Chief in this office that I
received the Red Carnation Award, which recognized exceptional leadership

by peers. The honor was very meaningful to me since I was nominated by my
staff members. I currently serve as Secretary for the Maryland Federation of
the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association (NARFE).

I am Allen Ford and I served in the Department of the Navy for 44 years in
both Naval Air and Naval Ship Laboratories. I worked as a
Physicist/Scientist. In 1960, I initiated a patent on a new class of high-speed

ship/boat. It would eventually be named by the Maritime Administration a
“Surface Effect Ship (SES).” After initial trials in towing tanks confirmed its
feasibility for low drag and favorable motion in waves, the Navy and the

Maritime Administration initiated a joint major program on SES development.
After competitive bidding, Bell (Textron) Inc. won, and eventually delivered
to the Navy a 100-ton test craft, the SES-100b. In subsequent years of trials
on Lake Ponchatrain (New Orleans, Louisiana) and the Chesapeake Bay,

among other sites, the SES-100b consistently achieved high speeds in excess
of 90 knots. In a recent (2015) book “Hydrodynamics of High-Performance
Marine Vessels,” its author, Dr. Lawrence Doctors, in his figure 17.9(f), rated

the SES transport factors (measures of efficiency) the highest of all high-
performance marine vessels over a broad range of speeds.

I am Jo Anne Groves and I served in the Department of the Navy and the
Federal Aviation Administration. While at the Naval Audit Service my
contribution to our nation came in many forms. I managed all aspects of the

National Security Program, assuring that command personnel, facilities,
equipment, and information were in strict compliance with national security. I
provided training to all personnel including acting as Armed Forces Protection
Officer for international military assignments. After the horrors of 9/11, I

transferred to Federal Aviation. In a joint program with the Air Force, I
supervised and coordinated a program to obtain security clearance
reinvestigations for over 6,000 employees. I provided security training to

field technicians and performed classified equipment inspections nationally
for the Identification Friend or Foe Program.

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