Robert Seto and Chris Crumbly Join Ball Aerospace Ares Team
June 26 2007 - 1:53PM
PR Newswire (US)
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., June 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ball Aerospace
& Technologies Corp. has hired two veteran aerospace industry
managers to lead the company's efforts to provide integration and
production support for NASA's Ares I Instrument Unit contract for
the Ares I Launch Vehicle. (Photo:
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http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070626/LATU122-B) Robert Seto
has been named program manager for the Ball Aerospace team for the
Ares Instrument Unit here. Seto brings 30 years of experience on
large development programs for commercial aircraft and space
transportation systems to the Ares pursuit. Seto joins Ball
Aerospace from Rocketplane Kistler where he worked on NASA's
Commercial Orbital Transportation System and served as vice
president of engineering and, most recently, chief of staff. He
also held leadership positions at Bombardier Aerospace, Bell
Helicopter Textron, and Pratt & Whitney. Seto holds a master's
degree in business administration from Newman University, Wichita,
Kan., and a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from McGill
University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Also joining the company is
Chris Crumbly, who will serve as deputy program
manager-subcontracts for the Ares pursuit. Previously, Crumbly
worked at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, where he was the
deputy manager of Propulsion Systems Engineering and Integration in
Marshall's Shuttle Propulsion Office. He also served as chief
systems engineer for NASA's Constellation Program Office, and held
several key leadership roles in NASA's Space Launch Initiative and
Orbital Space Plane programs. Crumbly holds both a bachelor's and
master's degree in aerospace engineering from Auburn University.
Seto and Crumbly will work directly with Bill Townsend, vice
president for Exploration Systems. Ball Aerospace is pursuing a
contract to provide integration and production support to NASA for
the Ares I Instrument Unit. The Ares I Crew Launch Vehicle will
launch the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, the system currently
being designed to replace the space shuttle after its retirement in
2010. Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. supports critical
missions of important national agencies such as the Department of
Defense, NASA, NOAA and other U.S. government and commercial
entities. The company develops and manufactures spacecraft,
advanced instruments and sensors, components, data exploitation
systems and RF solutions for strategic, tactical and scientific
applications. Over the past 50 years, Ball Aerospace has been
responsible for numerous technological and scientific 'firsts' and
acts as a technology innovator for the aerospace market. Ball
Corporation (NYSE:BLL) is a supplier of high-quality metal and
plastic packaging products for beverage, food and household
customers, and of aerospace and other technologies and services,
primarily for the U.S. government. Ball Corporation and its
subsidiaries employ more than 15,500 people worldwide and reported
2006 sales of $6.6 billion. Forward-Looking Statements This release
contains "forward-looking" statements concerning future events and
financial performance. Words such as "expects," "anticipates,"
"estimates" and similar expressions are intended to identify
forward-looking statements. Such statements are subject to risks
and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ
materially from those expressed or implied. The company undertakes
no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward- looking
statements, whether as a result of new information, future events
or otherwise. Key risks and uncertainties are summarized in filings
with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Exhibit 99.2
in our Form 10-K, which are available at our Web site and at
http://www.sec.gov/. Factors that might affect our packaging
segments include fluctuation in consumer and customer demand and
preferences; availability and cost of raw materials, including
recent significant increases in resin, steel, aluminum and energy
costs, and the ability to pass such increases on to customers;
competitive packaging availability, pricing and substitution;
changes in climate and weather; crop yields; industry productive
capacity and competitive activity; failure to achieve anticipated
productivity improvements or production cost reductions, including
those associated with our beverage can end project; the German
mandatory deposit or other restrictive packaging laws; changes in
major customer or supplier contracts or loss of a major customer or
supplier; and changes in foreign exchange rates, tax rates and
activities of foreign subsidiaries. Factors that might affect our
aerospace segment include: funding, authorization, availability and
returns of government and commercial contracts; and delays,
extensions and technical uncertainties affecting segment contracts.
Factors that might affect the company as a whole include those
listed plus: accounting changes; successful or unsuccessful
acquisitions, joint ventures or divestitures; integration of
recently acquired businesses; regulatory action or laws including
tax, environmental and workplace safety; governmental
investigations; technological developments and innovations;
goodwill impairment; antitrust, patent and other litigation;
strikes; labor cost changes; rates of return projected and earned
on assets of the company's defined benefit retirement plans;
pension changes; reduced cash flow; interest rates affecting our
debt; and changes to unaudited results due to statutory audits or
other effects.
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Technologies Corp. CONTACT: Roz Brown of Ball Aerospace &
Technologies Corp., +1-303-533-6059, Web site:
http://www.ballaerospace.com/
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