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Fred Young

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Email: ad1dgs@r.postjobfree.com

– Introduction:

My technical career spans more than five decades working on communication satellite (Satcom Payloads) engineering and manufacturing projects starting at Hughes Aircraft Co. (HAC), which was acquired by The Boeing Co. As such, I received my foundational technical training at HAC, and subsequently in The Boeing Co. where I worked on many pioneering technology development projects. After more than 40 years of extraordinary service at HAC and Boeing, I retired from Boeing’s Space and Intelligence Systems (S&IS) group, where I held a senior technical position, as the Chief Technologist Officer (CTO), working in company’s El Segundo, CA facility. Then, with many decades of hands-on experience in space engineering and satellite payload, design development and manufacturing, I decided to spend a few years in two smaller companies: L3- Harris/NARDA-West in Folsom, CA, and later HEICO/LUCIX in Camarillo, CA, to learn more about the space industry managed in much smaller enterprises.

– Technical Leadership Positions Held at HAC & Boeing: I started my career as an MTS and later in 1979 transitioned into technical management positions: 1979 I became an Engineering Section Manager, in 1983 a Technical Department Manager, in 1987 the Technical Laboratory Manager, in 1991 Communications Division Manager, & from 1992 through mid- 2012 I performed as the Chief Technologist Officer. After retirement from Boeing in mid-2012 to March 2015 worked at L3-Harris for a short time where I made significant engineering contributions as the Chief Engineer and later performed as the VP of engineering, working on advanced high-power S-band payload ONET, and several RF-electronics payload subsystems. Subsequently, I returned to southern California to join HEICO/LUCIX as the senior technology development officer, designing advanced power amplifiers, frequency converters, LNA’s and a series of passive circuits, including highly miniaturized micro-strip RF- filters printed on DLI’s high-dielectric constant ceramic substrates. In particular, I contributed to the development of DLI’s unique microstrip packaging technology that provides two advantages: a) minimized free space RF-radiation, using a conductive shield, and b) repeatable RF-performance either as stand- alone, and/or integrated in higher-level unit subsystems, also assisted by the integrated shield, shown below in lowpass and highpass filers for creating an ultra-wideband contiguous diplexer: Personal & Private

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In short, I have been recognized in industry as the key Satcom payload engineer who pioneered numerous RF, microwave and millimeter-wave circuits, including many leading-edge RF- microelectronics subsystems that I delivered while working at HAC/Boeing and later in two smaller RF-electronics companies.

As the Chief Engineer & Functional Leader: I have led many full-time engineers, part-time consultants, job-shoppers, and contract-labor to ensure successful project execution.

And, in special cases, I have been personally responsible for the program/project turnaround efforts of the “difficult programs” by organizing and leading highly focused cross-functional teams capable of high-velocity decisions, and rapid project execution, relying on “Lean-Engineering” techniques, developed over my many career-years, specifically: o Matching the Right People with the Right Jobs to Produce the Desired Results, o Identifying Project Constraints: Technology, Affordability, & Time-to-Market by Means of Concurrent & Focused Engineering,

o Establishing Design-Activity Interdependencies for Information Givers & Receivers to Set Priorities

& Subordinate Everything to Critical Chain Tasks by Means of Design Structure Matrix Row/Column Interdependency Optimization,

o Implementing DFMA/T Guidelines & Risk Management/Lessons-Learned Methods, o Establishing Critical Margins for Performance, Cost & Schedule Parameters, o Applying DOE for Substantiating Key Manufacturing Process Capability Indices, o Emphasizing Continuous Waste-Reduction & Time-Compression to Achieve High-Velocity Progress

& Curtailing Budget & Schedule Erosion,

o Leveraging Co-Engineering with Partners & Suppliers, and Contractors Coast-to-Coast, o Devoting Quality Time to Team-Building & Confidence-Boosting by Teaching & Coaching while Promoting & Creating Solid Team-Commitment.

– A Few Career Highlights, where I held direct engineering responsibilities for payload architecture and communications equipment integrated in various HAC/Boeing satellites: o 1976 – Marisat, this contract was awarded by COMSAT General to HAC, which was the very first mobile communications satellite operating at UHF, L-band, and C-band, covering the three major oceans around the globe, allowing continuous ship-to-shore communications, serving the Maritime industry as well as the U.S. Navy.

o 1981 – Space shuttle launch-compatible spin-stabilized HS-376 satellites, two each, built by HAC using HS-376 spin-stabilized bus. 1) SBS, owned by Satellite Business Systems, and 2) Anik-C, owned by Telesat CANADA, which included many new RF-electronics equipment on-board, including the first qualified all GaAs FET communications electronics receivers at Ku-band. o 1988 – UHF Follow-On (UFO), HAC designed and developed the three-axis stabilized HS601 bus to compete for U.S. Navy’s next generation UHF NB-satellites. Delivered 10 satellites with advanced high-power multi-channel output multiplexer at UHF to U.S. Navy. o 1994 – DIRECTV, first HAC-designed for continental U.S. coverage. I worked on the all-digital direct-to-home Ku-band TV broadcast service conceived by Dr. Harold Rosen, (known as the father of GEO-orbit satellites) who was one of my senior leaders at HAC; which included many technological firsts.

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o 2005 – Boeing HS-702 high-power satellite for DIRECTV 10, 11, & 12; expanding HDTV service across the U.S. at Ka-band, enabling up to 200 national high-definition TV-channels for direct-to- home service, where I created the most advanced dual TWTA high-power combining technology.

– And, Post-2012 Until Retirement from HEICO/LUCIX, August 31st, 2021: o I was engaged in designing and producing many unique circuits used in wide-band high- throughput satellites (HTS and VHTS) payloads with an imbedded digital signal-processor, providing high-capacity connectivity and routing around the globe.

– On October 11, 2021, I joined the Aerospace Corporation in International Partnerships Section of the Space System Architect Division as a full time Sr. Project Engineer until October 17, 2023, when I resigned in search of more challenging projects.

– Highlighting a few of many Major Satellite Programs in which I made “Significant Direct Contributions:”

a. ICO, global communications satellites, a MEO constellation of 12 satellites, however the program was not launched.

b. Thuraya, the largest GEO-Mobile satellite, service at L-band with the first 12.25m aperture antenna, a major success in mobile communications service. c. SPACEWAY, all Ka-band three satellites with highly advanced phased array antennae (uplink & down-link) providing agile spot-beam coverage, servicing Northeast U.S. customers. d. Wide-band Global Satellites (WGS), multiple Ka-band satellites with highly advanced phased array antennae for the U.S. Air Force, and our war-fighters around the globe. e. ORBCOMM, my last assignment at Boeing: the new generation OG2 LEO constellation of 12 small satellites, providing full commercial M2M messaging, and AIS services, where I led a small team of RF and digital engineers working on Receiver/Transmitter units, a high-power diplexer and the downlink S-band SSPA unit.

– Space Equipment SCM Partnership, Years of Experience: As the nature of commercial communications satellites evolved over the years and became rapidly globalized, I became compelled to develop expertise in supply chain management (SCM) focusing on and addressing the need for working collaboratively with domestic and overseas space equipment supply chains, involving collaborating and engaging in partnerships with many companies, across the globe. My SCM expertise spans across a wide range of companies both domestic and international, with primary focus on commercial satellite payload equipment, including strategic and tactical planning, quality management, performance-focused benchmarking and cost-effective procurement, as noted below:

o Strong abilities both as an adviser and as a result-oriented implementer with significant management and leadership responsibilities.

o Ability to influence and bring together decision makers from wide-ranging stakeholders through rigorous dialog and thoughtful leadership.

o Collaborations in supply chain, working directly with overseas suppliers located in France, CANADA, England, Germany, Norway, Japan, Australia, and numerous domestic suppliers across the U.S.

o And I became known as a strong team-player with an established record of working successfully in complex projects across many a company organization, relying on strong verbal and written communications skills, while coordinating across domestic and overseas supply chain partners.

– Formal Education

o MBA 1993, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA o PhD EE 1978, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA o MS EE 1973, California State University, Los Angeles, CA o BS EE 1970, California State University, Los Angeles, CA

– Other Knowledge Certificates

o Lean Aerospace Initiative @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Personal & Private

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– Honors

o Eta Kappa Nu, member of Engineering honor society o Tau Beta Pi, member of Electrical Engineering honor society o Recipient of the Howard Hughes Doctoral Fellowship o Recipient of the most prestigious award from Hughes Aircraft Co, the Lawrence A. Hyland Patent Award, in 1987

– U.S. DoD Security Clearances

o Active DoD Secret, & inactive high EBI clearance, for special programs (debriefed upon retirement from Boeing.)

− Hobbies

o Avid runner, enjoy classical music, and take pleasure in weekend gardening.

– Hold wide-ranging equipment invention disclosures and patents encompassing various satellite payload components, subsystems and advanced RF-product packaging, including many first offerings in new product introduction, summarized below briefly: o First 12 channel contiguous multiplexer at C-band and Ku-band dedicated to providing bent-pipe communications payloads for HAC Satcoms,

o First multi-mode extremely high-Q spherical-cavity band-pass filter at Ku-band for high-power payloads,

o First fully self-compensated BPF with flat amplitude and linear-phase using dual-mode waveguide cavities, used in advanced filters and multiplexer applications (MS thesis), o First Q-enhanced band-pass filter using GaAs-coupled compensating amplifiers for wide-band electronically tunable communications receivers,

o First fully integrated MIC low-noise down-converters operating at C-band and Ku-band using GaAs FET’s, exclusively qualified by NEC, Japan,

o First dual-surface shaped-reflector antenna system architecture, including analysis/synthesis with FORTRAN-software for scanning applications (PhD thesis.)

– Below, Highlights Examples of Patent Disclosures at HAC/Boeing: Number Title Issue Date

5760667 Non-uniform Q self amplitude equalized bandpass filter A bandpass filter having 4-degrees of freedom includes a plurality of resonant cavities having respective Qs where at least one of the Qs is different. A plurality of main couplings couple successive resonant cavities to establish a main signal path that ... 06/02/1998

5699029 Simultaneous coupling bandpass filter and method A high performance bandpass filter is produced by adding one or more "simultaneous couplings" to a conventional resonant cavity filter. A "simultaneous coupling" is created when a filter's input or output signal, normally coupled to a filter's first or last... 12/16/1997

5534881 Microwave filter assembly having a nonsymmetrical waveguide and an antenna A microwave cavity filter (30, 30A) is formed of a section of waveguide (36, 114) terminated by end walls (38, 40, 44, 166, 168, and 176) to form cavities (32, 34, 32A, 34A) wherein ridges (100, 102, 118, and 120) are disposed longitudinally within a cavity and ... 07/09/1996

5012211 Low-loss wide-band microwave filter

A microwave filter is composed of a set of circular cylindrical cavities arranged in cascade array and interconnected by irises having cross-slotted apertures for coupling electromagnetic power in two orthogonal TE113 modes. An input port is for... 04/30/1991

4488131 MIC Dual mode ring resonator filter

An electromagnetic filter assembly comprises a transmission line electromagnetically 12/11/1984

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coupled to a dual mode resonator having a means for differentially tuning the two modes. The filter may be incorporated in a microwave integrated circuit, and the tuning ... 4488130 Microwave integrated circuit, bandpass filter The present invention provides an improved microwave integrated circuit filter for electromagnetic waves. The filter includes a waveguide and three, four or more resonators spaced from one another and extending from the waveguide. Means, which may include... 12/11/1984

4410865 Spherical cavity microwave filter

A tri-mode spherical cavity microwave filter comprising two tandem disposed generally spherical bodies each of which defines a spherical cavity which supports three identical, mutually orthogonal modes of electromagnetic energy, a cavity coupling aperture... 10/18/1983

4291288 Folded end-coupled general response filter A folded end-coupled general response TE011 filter is herein described which achieves all bridge couplings necessary for general bandpass response in a particularly convenient two-tier overlapping structure, where all couplings are made in a... 09/22/1981

4291287 Evanescent mode filter

There are herein described evanescent mode filters each of which include a hollow waveguide, wherein a plurality of resonators are disposed, the resonators including loading structures such as tuning screws, for example, wherein at least one of the loading... 09/22/1981

4272769 Microwave antenna with parabolic main reflector A conical scan microwave antenna having a stationary fixed axially symmetric primary reflector consisting of any concave surface of revolution along with a spherical wave point source feed-and-sub-reflector assembly potentially rotatable about the axis of ... 06/09/1981

4262269 Q Enhanced resonator filter

An active microwave filter for use in both bandpass and notch filter applications is herein described, the filter incorporating a distributed resonator to which is coupled an amplifier which provides a positive feedback and cancels the net dissipation in ... 04/14/1981

4251787 Adjustable coupling cavity filter

There is herein described a microwave coupled-cavity filter having adjacent cavities defined by spaced end walls disposed in a tubular side wall, the end walls including at least one pair of oppositely disposed coupling apertures extending radially from the... 02/17/1981

4241323 Reflective dual mode filter

A waveguide filter is herein described that employs a resonator ordering which allows a direct realization of all canonical couplings while retaining the advantages of a standard dual mode filter, the filter including a reflective plate in one end cavity ... 12/23/1980

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