Mission Integration honors employees with Top Star Awards

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March 17, 2010

By DAVID WILFONG CNHI The Zope Gazette Wed Mar 17, 2010, 03:56 PM CDT

ROCKWALL COUNTY — GREENVILLE – L-3 Mission Integration honored more than 200 employees for outstanding achievements during the company’s inaugural Top Star awards. Selected by company leadership, the individuals and teams were recognized for their strong customer focus and leadership in areas of accountability, operational excellence and program performance.

Winners from the Royse City area included Allan Avery, Cindy Avery, Chris Carr, Larry Coker, Pat Durbin, Ernie Ellis, Jeff Fulghum, Cecil Harwell, Rick Jacques, Brian Johnson, Gene Mancias, James Merillat, Bob Morse, Miguel Nunez, Cheryl-Annette Parker, Adam Reppond, Rick Sayler and Kelly White.

Mark Von Schwarz, president of L-3 Mission Integration, presented the awards. “In this time of war, our customers demand both lightning schedules and exceptional product performance. They make these demands on behalf of the users in the field who put their lives at stake every day protecting our freedom in a diverse set of dangerous missions,” Von Schwarz said. “In a year of superior performance by the entire division, these winners personified our will to succeed.”

Each winner received a trophy, certificate and commemorative coin and chose from a selection of gifts.

L-3 Mission Integration is a world-class systems integration organization with nearly 60 years of experience developing complex intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems; command and control; and secure communications. Located in Greenville, Texas, Mission Integration is an industry leader in modernization and maintenance of aircraft of all sizes, sensor development, and signal processing.

Headquartered in New York City, L-3 Communications employs over 66,000 people worldwide and is a prime contractor in aircraft modernization and maintenance, C3ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) systems and government services. L-3 is also a leading provider of high technology products, subsystems and systems. The company reported 2009 sales of $15.6 billion.

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