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                                                  July 13, 2000


       WILLIAM D. (BILL) LANE NAMED CHIEF TECHNOLOGIST OF THE
                WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS BUREAU  


     Thomas Sugrue, Chief of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (Bureau) has
announced that Bill Lane has been named Chief Technologist of the Wireless
Telecommunications Bureau.

     Since January 1999, Lane was the Chief Scientist with Femme Comp Incorporated and
served on the staff of the Director for Information Systems for Command, Control,
Communications, and Computers (DISC4) at Headquarters, Department of the Army, where he
was responsible for the Joint Tactical Radio System Program.  

     Previously, Lane completed a career as a US Army Signal Corps Officer culminating
with the rank of Colonel and assignment as the Deputy Head of the Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science at the United States Military Academy.  His assignments and
responsibilities included a broad range of tactical communications ranging from special
operations to division- and corps-level communications as well as strategic level
communications with the former Defense Communications Agency.  In addition, he served as an
Instructor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the United States Military Academy and
as the Special Projects Officer for the Chief of the Army Section of the Joint United States
Military Mission for Aid to Turkey.   

     Lane received his Ph.D. degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology, his MBA
degree from Long Island University, and his BS degree from the United States Military
Academy.  He is a Senior Member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE) and is a Registered Professional Engineer in the state of Virginia. 

     
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