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Dr. James (Jim) T. Wimmers is president of Cincinnati Electronics Corporation (CE), which was acquired by L-3 in December, 2004. Dr. Wimmers has served the company in a variety of key leadership positions over the past 27 years, including positions in research & development, program management and engineering. Dr. Wimmers joined CE in 1977 as principal investigator for CE’s Detector and Microcircuit Devices Laboratory (DMDL) IR&D program. In 1980, he served as program manager for the 2-D Detector Array Development Program for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the Galileo Orbiter Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (NIMS) Focal Plane Array, also for JPL. In 1983, he was appointed technical director of the Detector and Microcircuit Devices Laboratory, and was responsible for the Detector Fabrication Facility and the Advanced Focal Plane Development activities, including internal research and development programs. In 1988, Dr. Wimmers became the general manager of the DMDL business unit, and in 1995 he was appointed president and CEO. Dr. Wimmers received his MS and Ph.D. in Solid State Physics from the University of Kentucky. As a Doctoral Fellow from 1974-78, his thesis research investigated the effects of doping inhomogeneities in metal-semiconductor devices and their relation to metal-nonmetal transitions in radiation-compensated semiconductors. Dr. Wimmers is a Fellow of the Military Sensing Symposia (MSS). | 