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graduation, I began my 37-year career with the Department of Defense, the

National Security Agency. I started as a cryptanalytic technician and was
professionalized as a cryptanalyst, after meeting the required criteria. Most of
my career, however, was as a supervisor and manager of cryptanalytic

organizations at increasingly higher levels, ensuring that vital intelligence on a
variety of targets got to the appropriate levels and to the warfighters. As a
Division Chief, I managed 90 analysts. Toward the end of my career, I was

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
Pontchartrain, 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 Wanda Galbraith and I retired from the Naval Supply Information
Systems Activity in Mechanicsburg, Pa., after 38 years of service. I was hired

right out of high school as a GS-2 Clerk Typist by the Ships Parts Control
Center. Over the years, I worked my way through promotions to become an
Office Machine Operator, Secretary, Computer Technician, Computer

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