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Michael S. Soimar was appointed president of Combat Propulsion Systems in February 2005. Prior to his appointment at L-3 Communications, Mr. Soimar served as Managing Director of General Dynamics Land Systems Propulsion Systems in Muskegon, Michigan, a position held since January 1997. Prior to joining GDLS, Mr. Soimar served as Vice President of New Product and Business Development for Rotary Power International (RPI), the world’s foremost developer of stratified charge rotary engines and the sole owner of rotary engines previously developed at John Deere Technology International Inc. and earlier, at Curtiss-Wright Corporation. Mr. Soimar started his career as a faculty member of the Technical University of Bucharest where, for several years, he taught Applied Thermodynamics and Propulsion Engineering. Recently, Mr. Soimar was the lead of the Army XXI Land Systems Legacy Vehicles working group comprised of government and industry representatives for the Fuel Efficient Army After Next (FEAAN), an Army Materiel Command (AMC) initiative that focused on the technology and policy initiatives aimed at reducing the high fuel consumption of the legacy combat vehicles. | 