Deidra Walls

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About Deidra Walls

Deidra is currently the Senior Manager of Test Engineering and Development for production programs where she is accountable for the development and transition of test systems, software, and documentation supporting NGMS new Waynesboro VA facility. She previously managed Antenna test development for 4th and 5th gen RF, IF, and digital AESAs. Prior to managing Antenna Test, she held the position of Antenna Test Engineering Integrated Product Team(IPT) lead. She also worked as the Associate Manager of Operations at L3Harris Corporation. Where she managed Antenna Products Test and Antenna products Assembly.At the start of her career, she worked as an RF Microwave Design Engineer at Northrop Grumman Corporation. There she improved and developed processing tools using Matlab for design verification. At that time she also served as the Community Outreach chair for an employee resource group, African American Task Group. She has one publication, a collaboration with NASA Langley and NI University. Her paper is published in SPIE 10167 entitled "How coupling affects closely packed rectenna arrays used for wireless power transmission."Deidra is pursuing her Doctoral Degree in Engineering Management(2026), earned her Masters in Electronics Engineering(2017) with a concentration in microelectronics and Photonics with a thesis, and earned her Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering(2015). Her interest are real estate investing, mentoring, traveling and cooking.