Missiles & Space appoints leaders
Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space president Sam Araki on July 2 announced three appointments to the leadership team.
Mike Henshaw was appointed executive vice president and joined Araki and Executive Vice President Vic Victorino in the office of the president, which heads Missiles & Space in Sunnyvale. Previously, Henshaw was vice president of civil space at Missiles & Space. He came to Missiles & Space last year after the Lockheed-Martin Marietta merger.
John Dietz was named vice president of business development, advanced programs and technology. Dietz joined the former Lockheed Missiles & Space Company in 1975 as a research specialist.
Michael Coats is the new vice president of civil space. He came to Missiles & Space from Heritage Loral's Space Information Systems, Coats was an astronaut from 1979 until 1991, when he joined Loral.
Sunnyvale gets CDBG monies
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded $1,397,000 in Community Development Block Grant funds to the city of Sunnyvale for fiscal year 1996-97.
Cities that receive CDBG funds must use them to fund public-service groups and projects. The Sunnyvale City Council approved this year's CDBG schedule in May, granting monies to organizations such as Sunnyvale Community Services, the Emergency Housing Consortium and the Senior Nutrition Program.
Sunnyvale also received $494,000 in federal funds for affordable-housing projects.
Police seek supsects in armed robbery
Sunnyvale Public Safety officers are still looking for two men who robbed a restaurant at gunpoint July 9. At 9:05 p.m., the two men entered Round Table Pizza on Mary Avenue, pistol-whipped an employee and removed an unknown amount of cash from the register and the safe. The employee suffered minor injury. The case is under investigation.
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This article appeared in the Sunnyvale Sun, July 17, 1996.
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