Burt Smith is the president of L-3 Communications’ Telemetry-West division located in San Diego, California. Telemetry-West serves commercial, military and civilian customers worldwide with a product offering that includes telemetry ground system components and solutions, TT&C satellite transponders, high data rate satellite transmitters, high power amplifiers, high-reliability receivers/transmitters, encryption/decryption units, video compression/decompression units, tactical intelligence radios, terrestrial HF and microwave radios and specialized telemetry and surveillance products. Mr. Smith joined Telemetry-West from L-3’s Ocean Systems division, where he held numerous operations and business management positions, most recently as chief operating officer. Prior to joining L-3, Mr. Smith had a distinguished career in operations, materials management and manufacturing and test engineering with AlliedSignals’ Air Transport Avionics Division and IBM’s Personal Computer Division. |