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Paragon Opens Washington, DC Office

TUCSON, Arizona, August 1 – Paragon Space Development Corporation, headquartered in Tucson, Arizona announces the opening of their Washington DC office, expanding now to four locations including, Denver and Houston.

Dr. Lance Bush is the head of the Washington office and is now the Chief Strategic Officer of Paragon.  Dr. Bush has significant experience in Washington and with the space community, having served with NASA for almost 20 years and at NASA Headquarters in a role spanning human spaceflight, life sciences, commercialization and international relations.  Dr. Bush previously served as the Chief Operating Officer of Paragon and is thrilled to bring his experience to this new position.

Taber MacCallum, CEO of Paragon, stated: “Paragon strives to exceed its customer’s expectations and we want to be vertically integrated with our customers and their leadership in the Washington area.  We are proud that our customers have continued to appreciate our work, helping us grow to this level and we hope this new office will extend our service to them even further.”

Paragon was recently honored by Popular Science Magazine for their invention of the contaminated-water dive system, developed for the US Navy.  Paragon's innovation in the dive system for an extreme environment is a contributing factor for their growth in the space industry.  Paragon invests in a broad range of R&D for extreme environments.  Paragon, as a subcontractor to Oceaneering, helped win the contract award for the Constellation Space Suit and also supports Lockheed Martin for the Orion program. 

Paragon, founded in 1993, is a full-service aerospace engineering and technology development firm specializing in life support in extreme environments. Paragon is a major supplier of environmental control and life support system and sub-system design for the aerospace industry with expertise in thermal control for orbiting and re-entering spacecraft and hyper-velocity aircraft. For more information, see:  www.paragonsdc.com

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For more information, press only:
Leslie Melton, Paragon SDC 520-903-1000 ext 4841
lmelton@paragonsdc.com