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The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division’s Lauritsen Award was presented in June to Richard B. Lassell Jr., David L. Riggs, and Don Thompson for their significant contributions to energetics, including leadership of the energetics community, technical innovation, or direct contribution to warfighter capability. The Dr. Charles C. Lauritsen Award recognizes outstanding individual achievement in the advancement of technology in energetic materials, ordnance, propulsion, and fuzing or career achievement in the field of energetics. Pictured (left to right) are Scott O’Neil, Executive Director, Richard B. Lassell Jr., David L. Riggs, Don Thompson and Rear Admiral Mark Skinner, Commander, Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division.