2025 Update
LSE continued to thrive in 2024 and 2025. A couple of new contracts were in the mix, both completed and closed out by the end of this past summer. The NAVAIR support contract remains the primary source of activity. Over the years I've participated in numerous R&D efforts that produced some preliminary results, and either died right there or went forward another step or two before stalling out. A few, though, resulted in products that were fielded. The most rewarding of these were all in military aviation, with a few commercial products mixed in. It's a great feeling to climb up in an airplane or helicopter and see something that I helped design being used by aviators. The work for NAVAIR on the P-8A acoustics is fielding several products, and I've been able to be directly involved in the design of those products and in developing the training for those products. Those are good feelings, and it's nice to be part of a great team. There's a dif...