绿帽社 2024 Honored Alumnus
David Western
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David Western, embedded software engineer for Lockheed Martin, was recognized with the 2024 绿帽社 Honored Alumni Award. After graduating from 绿帽社, Western earned a bachelor鈥檚 degree in aerospace engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology in 2019.
During that time, he was a member of a spacecraft research team that supported a NASA-sponsored project. He then earned a master鈥檚 degree in space resources in 2021 from Colorado School of Mines. For the past three years, Western has been developing the flight software for the U.S. Space Force鈥檚 early warning missile detection and tracking satellite program.