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9 0 C O M M U N I T Y M A G A Z I N E FA L L 2 0 2 5 tomers, people from academia, and people from government, and they often have different expec- tations. You're finally getting them in a room where they can argue, sometimes vigorously, but come to terms together. They're usually people who are competitors on any other day, but in that meeting room, they're collaborators. That's a pretty cool thing to see. Seeing these publicly available stan- dards get published after all that work is pretty rewarding to me. Did you get a chance to meet some of the people connected to those cool fighter jets? What was that like? I met Don DuPriest from Lockheed Martin when I joined in 1999. That was pretty cool. Don is a leg- end in our industry and a recipient of our Associa- tion's highest honor, the Raymond E. Pritchard Hall of Fame Award. We had a workshop in Fort Worth in 2011, and he had arranged a tour of their aircraft division plant, where they had the assembly line for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter up and running and we got to walk (and sometimes cart) from one end to the other. They start at one end of the plant with some wheels, and then there's a portion of a wing and the fuselage, and you go down the line and watch the aircraft slowly getting pieced together. It's a mile-long plant, and at the other end, a brand new F-35 is ready to roll out. That was pretty cool. Tell me more about your job here. You're helping lead the effort to create the standards. My focus is on the standards addressing the bare printed boards, whether they are rigid, flexible, HDI, or the ultra HDI boards we're trying to address now. The committees I work with develop and maintain standards for the design of the boards, their fabrica- tion, testing and lot acceptance, and their contin- ued reliability—everything that happens with the board before it goes to the assembler. John, thank you for doing this interview. I greatly appreciate it. It's wonderful to get to know you a little better. Great talking with you, Barry. It was a nice trip down memory lane. I think I got something in my eye… B I T S & B Y T E S