TAM alum Amy White to receive Northrop Grumman's most prestigious award
6/18/2012 By Linda H. Conway
Barry Rhine (VP and General Manager of Information System's Defense Systems Division); C-RAM Team: Kim Shleton, Cheryl Davis, Scott Adkins, Dave Cranmer, Amy White; and Linda Mills (Corporate VP and President of Information Systems Sector)Amy White credits her UIUC professors with providing her with the foundation that has made her achievements at Northrop Grumman possible.
Written by By Linda H. Conway
Barry Rhine (VP and General Manager of Information System's Defense Systems Division); C-RAM Team: Kim Shleton, Cheryl Davis, Scott Adkins, Dave Cranmer, Amy White; and Linda Mills (Corporate VP and President of Information Systems Sector)
Barry Rhine (VP and General Manager of Information System's Defense Systems Division); C-RAM Team: Kim Shleton, Cheryl Davis, Scott Adkins, Dave Cranmer, Amy White; and Linda Mills (Corporate VP and President of Information Systems Sector)
Amy White credits her UIUC professors with providing her with the foundation that has made her achievements at Northrop Grumman possible.
White (B.S., Engineering Mechanics, 2006) has been working at Northrop Grumman since receiving her M.S. from Penn State in 2008. She lives in Dallas, but spends about half her time in Huntsville, AL which is where the Counter-Rocket, Artillery, Mortar Production (C-RAM) Team that she works with is located.
The C-RAM team is part of the Defense System Division in Northrop Grumman’s Information Systems Sector. Within the sector there are many teams working on over 7,000 programs. Last month White’s team was honored with the sector’s most prestigious award, the President’s Excellence Award. Now White and her team have just learned that they will also receive the company-wide ‘Northrop Grumman Award for Excellence,’ the highest honor bestowed upon individuals or teams within the company who have distinguished themselves through extraordinary performance and outstanding contributions in the areas of innovation and technology, customer satisfaction and operational excellence.
The C-RAM team’s capabilities are being used to successfully protect U.S. military personnel by intercepting rocket, artillery and mortar rounds directed at U.S. bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, and by providing a capability that contributes to rapid and successful counterattacks and response options.