Neel Mehta 
Lockheed Martin and IERUS Technologies have received the Defense Department’s Nunn-Perry Award for their performance as a mentor-protege team.
The DoD handed the award to Lockheed Martin’s Donna Longmire and IERUS Technologies’ Jason Keen at a ceremony in Virginia, Lockheed Martin said Friday.
“Through the DoD mentor-protege program, we are able to help a small business expand, and that, in turn, strengthens our supplier base,†said Longmire, a program manager for Lockheed Martin space systems.
Lockheed Martin began mentoring Huntsville, Alabama-based IERUS, a certified historically underutilized business zone company, in 2012.
IERUS Technologies provides systems engineering and program management support, and electromagnetic spectrum and software acceleration technologies.
