Lorraine Flanders

Lorraine Flanders, FLC MAR Deputy Regional Coordinator, is a 1984 graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo with a degree in Electrical Engineering.  She started her career at General Electric, Electronic Systems Department as a test equipment design engineer, working primarily in infrared systems.  After several years she began her Government career at Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in Rome, NY as a program manager in optical systems.  While at AFRL Mrs. Flanders became a technical agent in wide area surveillance technologies for the Counterdrug Technology Development Program Office (CNTDPO).  She then joined the Navy team of the CNTDPO at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) as the deputy program manager of National Wide Area Surveillance Programs.  After a brief stint in naval shipboard radar systems she became the manager of the NSWCDD Office of Research and Technology Applications where she has served for the last 4 years.  She has also recently been named Chair of the Awards committee for the Federal Laboratory Consortium.  Mrs. Flanders lives in Fredericksburg, VAA with her husband and three of her four children.