PASADENA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory Picks New Deputy Director
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Larry N. Dumas has been named deputy director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. He will be responsible for day-to-day management of the lab.
Dumas, 55, succeeds Peter T. Lyman, who will retire on July 1. Dumas is a 30-year JPL veteran who has held various engineering and management positions. Most recently, he was charged with overseeing JPL’s worldwide Deep Space Network--the antenna complexes near Barstow, Madrid and Canberra that allow Earth communication with spacecraft heading for asteroids and other planets.
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