Distinguished Service Award for Larry Coulter presented by Peter Shyprykevich (July 2010)
First I will read what his Supportability Chair, Bud Westerman wrote in his behalf.
Larry Coulter has been able to integrate the ever changing Supportability Working Group into a well documented success story. During the last seven years, Larry’s leadership has been instrumental in improvements in the HDBK. Larry was right there with ideas to help designers and maintainers produce better products. Integrating supportability attributes across the other HDBK chapters will prove to be Larry’ legacy. Larry’s ability to referee heated discussions, keep the team on schedule, and promote industry and government participation will be missed. The entire CMH-17 team wishes him well in the next chapter of his life.
Now let me add a few words. When Larry took over the leadership of the Supportability Working Group he thought it would be an easy government job. I handed him a Supportability Chapter that almost complete and all that remained was to reconcile Greg Kress and Allen Fawcett. But we did not anticipate the coming of the Damage Tolerance and Durability train that derailed the chapter and broke it up into pieces, in fact the chapter became two chapters. Larry was stuck to put it back together for Rev. G. A job well done.
It is my pleasure to present this Distinguished Service Award to Larry.
