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PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
PASADENA, CALIF. 91109. (818) 354-5011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMarch 12, 1991
Malvin L. Yeater has been appointed assistant
laboratory director for Technology and Applications Programs by
JPL Director Dr. Edward C. Stone.
Yeater will head the JPL office that manages the NASA
technology program as well as work done for agencies other than
NASA, including the Defense Department, the Department of Energy,
Federal Aviation Administration, U.S. Forest Service, the
Environmental Protection Agency and the state of California
Department of Commerce. Since 1987 Yeater has served as deputy
assistant laboratory director for the same office.
He joined the Laboratory in 1964 and has held a number
of senior engineering and management positions over the years.
Yeater was project manager of the All-Source Analysis
System/Enemy Situation Correlation Element (ASAS/ENSCE) Project
(1984-1987); deputy project manager of the ASAS/ENSCE Project
(1982-1984); program manager for Tracking and Data Acquisition
Networks Consolidation Program (1979-1982); deputy office manager
for Tracking and Data Acquisition Engineering (1975-1979);
section manager for the Mission Computing and Control Center
(MCCC) Data Systems Engineering (1972-1975); system engineer for
MCCC (1970-1972); and project engineer for the Multi-Mission
Telemetry System of the Deep Space Network.
Prior to joining JPL, Yeater was a design engineer and
technical group supervisor at the Douglas Aircraft Corp., in
Santa Monica, Calif. He also served as an electronics engineer
in the U.S. Navy.
Yeater received a B.S. in electrical engineering from
the University of California at Berkeley in 1960, and an M.S. in
electrical engineering from California State University, Long
Beach in 1968. He has participated in the NASA Senior Executive
Program at Wallops Island, Va. Yeater also received a
Certificate of Advanced Management from the University of Chicago
and completed the Executive Program in Business Management at the
University of California at Los Angeles Graduate School of
Management.
He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers, the Armed Forces Communications and
Electronics Association, the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society and the
JPL/Caltech Management Club.
Yeater was born on Oct. 22, 1931, in Morley, Iowa. He
lives in Tujunga, Calif. and is married to Gladys Yeater. They
have two children, Andrew Karl Yeater and Ann Kathleen Rodriguez.
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