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On July 10 the National Nuclear
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Announced the award to
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NSC WELCOMES DEPUTY
SECRETARY SHERWOOD-RANDALL
NSC PLAYS MAJOR ROLE
IN NATION’S SECURITY
KEEPING THE “SPIRIT OF ’45
ALIVE” IN KANSAS CITY
Deputy Secretary Dr. Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall
traveled to the National Security Campus to visit the
new campus and thank employees for their service
on August 25. The Deputy Secretary made stops at
several tour locations to get a first-hand look at the
advanced manufacturing operations ...
Before you buy a car, you might research the
rigorous testing it underwent before going to
market. Cars are crashed, smashed and tested
at high speeds because car manufacturers
need to know all points of failure. In our
business, we don’t have the ability to test drive
the “car,” since the Partial Test Ban Treaty was
signed in 1963 ...
Employees commemorated the 70th
anniversary of the end of World War II by
sharing stories of their loved ones that served in
the war, viewing photographs and documents
with Truman Library historians and listening to
WWII Veteran Max DeWeese reminisce about
his experience in the war ...
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NNSA Awards Contract to Honeywell FM&T
On July 10 the National Nuclear Security
Administration (NNSA) announced the award to
Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies,
LLC, to continue serving as the management and
operating contractor for the National Security Campus
(NSC) in Kansas City, Missouri.
Frank Kendall, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition,
Technology, and Logistics visited the NSC on Sept. 21 to learn
more about our operations and supply chain expertise.
“Our non-nuclear production capabilities are critical
to our national security, and Honeywell FM&T
represents the best value to the government,” said
NNSA Administrator Frank Klotz. “Honeywell has
demonstrated excellent performance in advancing
NNSA’s enduring mission at the NSC and this award
creates workforce stability for another decade.”
Air Force legacy visits NSC
United States Air Force brigadier general Paul W. Tibbets IV visited the NSC in
September to speak to employees about the importance of the mission.
Honeywell has a long-standing track record of
delivering exceptional solutions to the DOE’s National
Nuclear Security Administration in support of a
more responsive and cost-effective nuclear security
enterprise.
“This new contract gives us the opportunity to
continue our longstanding partnership with the NNSA
with continuous improvement at our core – doing the
right things, in the right way to enable productivity and
deliver value,” said Honeywell FM&T President Chris
Gentile. “I’m excited for what the future brings.”
The new contract begins October 1, 2015.
NSC welcomes Deputy Secretary
Sherwood-Randall
In June 2015, he assumed command of the 509th Bomb Wing at Whiteman
Air Force Base in Missouri. He is also the grandson of Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., who
is best known for his atomic mission in a B-29 named the “the Enola Gay” that
dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945 helping to end World War II.
At Whiteman AFB, Tibbets is responsible for the combat readiness of the Air
Force’s only B-2 Spirit wing, including development and employment of the
B-2’s combat capability as part of the Air Force’s Global Strike Task Force.
Previously, he was the Deputy Director for Nuclear Operations in the Global
Operations Directorate of the United States Strategic Command, where he was
responsible for the nuclear mission of the nation’s ballistic missile submarines,
intercontinental ballistic missiles, and strategic bombers.
Deputy Secretary Dr. Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall traveled to the National
Security Campus to visit the new campus and thank employees for their
service on August 25. The Deputy Secretary made stops at several tour
locations to get a first-hand look at the advanced manufacturing operations.
During the visit, she got an inside look at the NSC’s Additive Manufacturing
(AM) and 3D printing capabilities. Honeywell has opened up a world of design
options used to create innovative and timely solutions for the broader
national security mission. While additive techniques can create traditional
parts, it also allows greater design flexibility to create parts that are
hollow inside, have a complex geometry, or even a part within a part.
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Honeywell, Missouri S&T to
collaborate on science and innovation
Students will get hands-on experience with new technology
Officials from Missouri University of Science and Technology signed a master
collaboration agreement with Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies
that will allow the two organizations to work more closely on research and
development of new technology to meet national security needs.
“Missouri S&T is fortunate to have a longstanding partnership with Honeywell –
from our research collaborations to active recruiting of our students,” Missouri
S&T Chancellor Cheryl B. Schrader said during the formal signing ceremony on
September 15.
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Nuclear Weapons Center (AFNWC)
NSC Plays Major Role in
Nation’s Security
Before you buy a car, you might research the rigorous testing it underwent before
going to market. Cars are crashed, smashed and tested at high speeds because
car manufacturers need to know all points of failure. In our business, we don’t
have the ability to test drive the “car,” since the Partial Test Ban Treaty was signed
in 1963 (nixing above ground nuclear tests) and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test
Ban Treaty was signed in 1996 (stopping all underground nuclear tests).
So how do we know it still works? Today, we are able to test components to
achieve the full system configuration. Each year the stockpile is certified by
reviewing the safety, reliability and performance of each selected weapon system
with Joint Test Assembly (JTA) flight test data. The evaluations performed ensure
that a weapon will function correctly in a wartime environment through flight and
laboratory testing.
“Honeywell has a strong track record with the university for recruiting
many talented students and promoting research and development of new
technologies,” said Robin Stubenhofer, vice president of engineering for
Honeywell FM&T, “We are pleased to extend that partnership in support of an
innovative research educational environment to further support the readiness of
tomorrow’s leaders and meet important national security needs.”
As part of the collaboration agreement, Honeywell and its customer, the
Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration, are loaning a
Renishaw AM250 additive manufacturing printing system to facilitate the use of
new technology by Missouri S&T students. The research conducted with this
equipment will be used to further study and identify material standards in the
emerging field of additive manufacturing.
“Education is the foundation of a skilled workforce and helps fuel innovation,”
said Stubenhofer. “On behalf of Honeywell and our federal government customer,
we are pleased to support STEM collaboration while advancing the national
security mission.”
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The National Security Campus plays a major role in the Stockpile Surveillance
Program with Telemetry and JTA efforts. Twelve departments at the NSC
support JTA hardware by building components and testing materials and in turn
maintaining a safe, secure and reliable nuclear stockpile.
“We spend a lot of time and energy ensuring that components will work time and
time again after sitting dormant for years, and JTAs actually show that everything
works,” Jennifer Harder, Senior Chemical Engineer. “We have some of the leading
experts in optical measurement devices that currently hold patents on designs
used in the JTA component designs.”
In July, the B61-12 Life Extension Program (LEP) successfully completed a
development flight test at Tonopah Test Range. This test is the first of three
development flight tests for the B61-12 LEP, with two additional development
flight tests scheduled for later this calendar year. The B61-12 Telemetry will
transmit both analog and digital data five Megabits per second (same speed as
your standard internet).
The collected data provides the DoD and the DOE feedback on personnel
training, operations and procedures as well as hardware through realistic
environments and system level testing with the most operationally representative
conditions as possible.
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KANIAH KONKOLYTHEGE SELECTED TO
KC CHAMBER ...
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Kaniah Konkoly-Thege
selected to KC Chamber
Centurion Class
After an intense
application and
interview process,
Honeywell FM&T’s
General Counsel, Kaniah
Konkoly-Thege was
selected to the Kansas
City Chamber Centurion
Class of 2017.
Kaniah, along with her
class, will spend the next
two years in a self-directed program that includes
close examination of the Kansas City region’s issues
and opportunities, hours and hours of community
service, and best practices benchmarking visits to
two peer cities.
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INSPECTOR GADGET:
ERIK TIMPSON ...
DP awards showcase
collaboration at NSC
More than 200 employees received recognition
for their work supporting NNSA’s 2014 Defense
Programs.
Mark Holecek, NNSA’s NSC Site Manager, presented
the awards in a special ceremony on September
14 to eight teams for their outstanding technical
achievements and process improvements. The ninth
award went to engineer Ellen Kirk for her significant
impact to the NSC encapsulation process, including
a $1 million cost savings in support of the W76-1 and
an operator training program.
The awards recognize on an annual basis the
contributions of work performed in support of
“Our new class of Centurions includes young
women and men from small and large, for-profit
and non-profit companies and organizations
representing a cross-section of the Kansas City
region,” says Jim Heeter, President & CEO of the
KC Chamber. “Their next two years will involve
a huge commitment from both the Centurion
and the company they serve. They were chosen
because they are already excelling in their work
and community service. They’re about to get even
busier. But it will be worth it.”
Honeywell Engineer Erik Timpson isn’t your typical
engineer; he carries around a bag of supplies ranging
from mini-scissors to tape, a flashlight and a widearray of colored pens and pencils. Always with a
new gizmo or gadget to help stimulate the mind for
students and employees…Erik himself reminds you of
a modern-day, Inspector Gadget.
Erik followed the path of his father and earned a
Bachelor’s of Science in Electrical Engineering from
the University of Missouri in Rolla with minors in Math,
Physics and Biology with Honors.
With his doctorate now complete, Erik knew he
wanted to focus his extra time towards engagement,
outreach and metrology. He became the engagement
focus area lead for the People Center of Excellence
and increased his involvement with STEM activities.
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“I think it is so important to introduce electrical
engineering at a young age. I truly believe soon
electrical engineer and computer classes will be a part
of the elementary curriculum…technology is bound to
benefit us.”
See the full list of Kansas City Chamber Centurions
on the Kansas City Chamber website.
A true kid a heart, you see Erik’s excitement when he
is leading a classroom full of students or in meetings
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the Stockpile Stewardship Program. The awards
are given for significant achievements in quality,
productivity, cost savings, safety or creativity in
support of the nuclear weapons program.
Modern-Day Inspector
Gadget: Erik Timpson
The Centurions Leadership Development program
was started 39 years ago by the Greater Kansas
City Chamber of Commerce. Alumni include CEOs,
judges, nonprofit executives and community
volunteers. The Centurions motto is “Learn. Serve.
Lead.”
“I am extremely excited to have the opportunity
to become a Centurion. The Centurions program
has been in existence since 1976, and I think it is
an amazing opportunity for me to become more
immersed in the Kansas City community,” said
Kaniah. “The Program’s mission is to prepare a
cross-section of the Kansas City emerging leaders
for their role in shaping the future of Kansas City.
How cool is that?!?! There are so many interesting
aspects of the program, but I think I am most
excited about the opportunity to network with other
current and future community leaders and gain a
greater awareness of the diversified segments of
Kansas City.”
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sharing his ideas, but most recently with the innovative
Honeywell User Experience (HUE) Design Studio,
which piloted in late March. HUE helps employees
design and deliver great experiences for our
customers; through the iterative process of Design,
Understand and Evaluate. Employees stopped by to
put their creativity to the test with Little Bits, Circuit
Scribe (a roller-ball pen filled with conductive silver
ink enabling the creation of circuits by drawing them),
clay, pens, markers and other fun artistic elements.
“Practicing many forms of art is imperative for
cognitive development, which is why I think the HUE
Design Studio is essential to the NSC,” says Erik. “Art
is just like science and engineering in that they only
require study and practice.”
Metrology, the science of measurement, is another
area Erik is passionate about. His favorite quotes in
this area are from Lord Kelvin “To measure is to know”
and “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it”. “I
love evaluating the uncertainty in a measurement,”
said Erik. “The true value will never be known, but
you can quantify how far you are from some basis of
comparison.”
“The truth is, I really just love to help people…whether
that’s teaching, researching, STEM, being an artist or
scientist, being a husband or a dad…all that is just
semantics…I help people.”
Now that his life is a little less chaotic, he spends his
spare time with his family going hiking and sharing
their same passion for science and art.
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Keeping the “Spirit of ’45 Alive”
in Kansas City
Employees commemorated the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II by
sharing stories of their loved ones, viewing photographs and documents with
Truman Library historians and listening to WWII Veteran Max DeWeese reminisce
about his experience in the war.
The August 13 event was inspired by the National Spirit of ’45 Day, a way to
honor the achievements of America’s “greatest generation” and their example of
courage, self-sacrifice, and national unity. In 2010, Congress voted unanimously
to recognize the Spirit of ’45 in August, coinciding with the anniversary of
August 11, 1945, the day President Truman announced the end of World War II.
Seventy years later employees at the National Security Campus continue to
carry out the mission that was paved by President Harry S. Truman and the
veterans who served during WWII.
Honeywell volunteers provide
renovations to improve the lives
of at-risk children
On Saturday, August 8, Honeywell partnered with Rebuilding Together Clay
County to provide $28,000 in repairs and upgrades that enhanced the Niles
Home for Children, a program that aims to meet the mental health and
educational needs of at-risk children and their families.
Supported by Honeywell Hometown Solutions, the company’s corporate
citizenship initiative, volunteers spent the day improving the residential facility
to give it a home-like feel. The effort helps to provide normalcy for abused,
neglected and abandoned children, and give them the tools they need to be
contributing citizens in the Kansas City metropolitan area. Volunteers built an
activity room, install new bathroom fixtures, built a therapy room and construct
a “teaching kitchen” for students to focus on healthy cooking and sustainable
eating. Volunteers also will be helping the program expand by creating a new
classroom for high school students.
“At Honeywell, we take great pride in our connection with Kansas City, and
we strive to make our community better — one neighborhood, one classroom,
one student, one life at time,” said Chris Gentile, president of Honeywell Federal
Manufacturing & Technologies. “Our employees will be completing projects that
directly impact and support the kids at the Niles Home.”
The Niles Home for Children has been serving at-risk, abused, neglected and
abandoned children for more than 130 years. The program offers a school
program August through May, and provides a residence for children needing
long-term housing and support.
Honeywell wins
Corporate Hero Award
Honeywell is committed to inspiring and educating students and teachers
while empowering the next generation of scientists and engineers. Check
out the video of the Central Exchange recognizing our awesome employees
with the 2015 Corporate Hero Award!
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