Larissa Payne

Serving for more than 85 years, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is a corporate research laboratory serving the Navy and Marine Corps of the United States. NRL is a campus-like complex of diverse scientific facilities, with a staff of more than 2,500 researchers, engineers, technicians and support personnel. NRL has received various awards, including Nobel Prize, Bower Prize, Robert J. Collier Trophy, National Medals of Science and Technology, Roosevelts Gold Medal for Science and SES Awards. Some of the systems provided by NRL include global positioning systems, high frequency radio, moon relay, STU-III, radar, naval radar systems, monopulse radar, airborne radar, over-horizon radar and friend-or-foe system. It also offers rockets, such as V-2 Rockets, Aerobee, Rockoon, Nike Booster and NavSpaSur.

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr is a law firm that offers services in a wide range of practice areas. Its practice areas include patents, underwriting, bankruptcy, labor and employment, real estate, securities litigation, estate administration, international arbitration, investment management, alternative dispute resolution and tax matters. The firm represents clients in complex civil and criminal litigation, corporate investigations, international arbitrations and foreign corrupt practices act. It represents various accounting and law firms, corporate officers and directors, associations and other individuals in the professional services industry. It also offers services in a wide range of regulatory, corporate and litigation matters. The firm has more than 1,000 lawyers and offices in over 10 cities in the United States, Europe and Asia, including Belgium, the United Kingdom, China, Palo Alto, Calif., Berlin, Waltham, Mass., Boston, New York City and Washington, D.C.