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EDSEL D. DUNFORD
Pages 70-75

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... GLEGHORN E DSEL DELANO (ED) DUNFORD, former president and chief operating officer of TRW, Inc., a major aerospace and systems engineering company, died October 3, 2008, at his home in Rolling Hills, California, from kidney cancer.
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From page 72...
... This was a period when mass and power requirements were stringent, leading to an increased emphasis on miniaturization and eventual development of very large scale integrated circuit technology. Typical of these systems was NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System, for which Ed was the payload manager.
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From page 73...
... Ed served as chairman of the Aerospace Industries Association in 1991 and was on the board of directors of several corporations -- TRW, National Steel Corporation, and Cordant Technologies among them. In 1989 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering "for eminent leadership in the development and integration of satellites, electronic payloads, and advanced technology for space." He served as chairman of the National Research Council's Committee on the National Aerospace Initiative in 2003.
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From page 74...
... In his career Ed had longtime direct and indirect contact with the Cold War. It became a major interest of his, and in 2004 he coauthored and coproduced a two-hour documentary entitled "The Cold War and Beyond." This was shown on Public Broadcasting System stations and later modified to a form suitable for college and high school history instruction.
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From page 75...
... ; Philip Dunford; and daughter Marlo Garrett (and husband Tim) ; stepchildren Matthew Henning and Abbey Greene; and his grandchildren, Carina Dunford, Laurel Dunford, Alyssa Dunford, Bradley Dunford, Amy Dunford, Mark Dunford, Michele Dunford, Katie Dunford, Jessica Garrett, and Jason Garrett.
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