Robert Waldron, Robert Pentz: New Assignments
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (8/25/99) -- Dr. Robert J. Waldron, Jr., has been appointed principal director of the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center -- Western Region at The Aerospace Corporation. The center's former director, Robert M. Pentz, has assumed a new position in the Office of Technology Operations.
Waldron, who has been with the company since 1974, will direct the law enforcement center's overall operations in support of the National Institute of Justice -- the center's primary customer -- as well as law enforcement agencies in the western region of the country. He previously was systems director for the Border Research and Technology Center, part of the Law Enforcement and Public Safety Directorate.
Pentz, named principal engineer reporting to the vice president of Technology Operations, will work in the growing area of public safety, identifying new markets for the company's technologies with a focus on state and local agencies.
Waldron joined the company as a member of the technical staff in the Physical Sciences Programming Department, Information Processing Division. Subsequent positions included manager of the Data Systems Analysis Section; director of the Data Concepts and Analysis Department; senior project engineer in the Systems Application Directorate; and systems director of the Operations Directorate, Systems Application Directorate.
He attended Gonzaga University, earning a bachelor's degree in mathematics, and Michigan State University, where he earned a master's in mathematics and a doctorate in applied mathematics.
Pentz has held a number of increasingly responsible positions since joining Aerospace in 1968 as a member of the technical staff.
In addition to organizing and heading the law enforcement center, he was principal director of the Public Safety and Law Enforcement Program.
In 1997 he received the company's President's Achievement Award for developing initiatives in the application of space technology solutions to law enforcement.
