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DANIEL M. TELLEP
DANIEL M. TELLEP
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MULLIN SUBMITTED BY THE NAE HOME SECRETARY D ANIEL MICHAEL TELLEP, retired first chair and chief executive officer of Lockheed Martin Corporation, died at his home in Saratoga, California, on Thanksgiving morning, November 26, 2020, a scant week after his 89th birthday. He was born November 20, 1931, in the small coal mining town of Forest City, Pennsylvania, the son of John, a coal pro cessor and later carpenter, and Mary, who worked for a thread company.
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The division soon evolved into Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, with a large new plant in Sunnyvale and a research and development laboratory in Palo Alto. Over the next 3 decades the company became Lockheed's largest, most profitable operating division, and the engineering and management career of hard-working, self-confident Dan Tellep flourished.
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He was very pleased in April 1991 when the Lockheed-led F-22 team won the US Air Force fighter competition, contracted to put the stealthy supersonic jet with its new design digital avionics system in volume production. Lockheed had become one of the major aerospace companies in the world, with 82,000 employees and annual sales of $10 billion.
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In retirement Dan continued to be an avid tennis player, runner, and sailplane pilot, with lifetime logbooks totaling over 600 hours of soaring and more than 4500 miles of crosscountry flights. He also enthusiastically pursued a new passion: painting in watercolors, often near his second house in the beach town of Carmel.
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