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PETER B. TEETS
Pages 350-353

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... AUGUSTINE P ETER BURRITT TEETS died November 29, 2020, in C ­ olorado Springs, Colorado, at the age of 78. He devoted his 37-year indus­trial career to Martin Marietta and Lockheed Martin, and served 4 years as undersecretary of the United States Air Force.
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... The time eventually came for Pete to leave his beloved home state when in 1993 he was called to the corporation's headquarters in Bethesda to serve as president of the Martin Marietta Space Group. When Lockheed and Martin Marietta merged, representing the combination of all or parts of 17 different firms as the industry consolidated following the sudden end of the Cold War, Pete became president and chief operating officer of the Information and Services Sector (1995–97)
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... Hill Lifetime Space Achievement Award (2009) ; Wernher von Braun Space Flight Trophy from the National Space Club of Huntsville, Alabama; Bob Hope Distinguished Citizen Award, presented by the Los Angeles chapter of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA)
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