63 Northrop Grumman Employees Honored at Women of Color in Technology STEM Conference

Market Watch
November 1, 2010

Sixty-three Northrop Grumman Corporation employees received awards for their achievements at the fifteenth annual Women of Color in Technology STEM (Science, Technology Engineering and Math) Conference in Dallas. The conference recognizes outstanding women in the STEM fields and provides opportunities for professional development, networking, and recruiting.

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Vicky Harper-Hall, manager of socio-economic business programs and government relations for Northrop Grumman's Aerospace Systems sector in El Segundo, Calif., was honored with the Diversity Leadership -- Industry award. Harper-Hall oversees all aspects of company programs related to small, small disadvantaged, women-owned, historically underutilized, veteran-owned and service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses as well as historically black colleges/universities and minority institutions. She also works to increase company partners' participation in government and commercial contracts. Harper-Hall earned a master's degree of business administration from West Coast University, Los Angeles and a bachelor's degree from California State University, Long Beach...

...Amanda Vallejo, a senior management executive for the company's Shipbuilding sector's Gulf Coast operations in Pascagoula, Miss., was honored with the Diversity Leadership -- Industry award. Responsible for the design and implementation of a diversity and equal employment opportunity program for more than 16,000 employees in three states, she led a team that developed a set of initiatives to address the needs of the company's English-limited workforce. The program was recognized as a corporate best practice by the New York-based Council of the Americas think tank. Vallejo attended the University of Southern California.

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