Lockheed Martin integrates sustainability into its business strategy and uses resilient design to retain material value throughout the product life cycle. Its approach focuses on improving processes and efficiencies, extending product durability and lifecycle, and integrating sustainable elements into design—including material efficiency, renewable or recyclable materials, simplified part counts, and planning for remanufacture and recycling.

Christopher Richard, Ph.D., LM Fellow for Climate and Data Science, accepted the award on the company’s behalf.

Terrie Boguski’s career spans more than three decades in LCA, from helping establish formative approaches to data collection and modeling to supporting the credibility of today’s life cycle information through independent review and verification. As President and Owner of Harmony Environmental, she focuses on critical review of LCAs and verification of Product Category Rules (PCRs) and Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs).

The National Laboratory of the Rockies demonstrates how life cycle thinking and rigorous analysis can support complex industrial and public-sector challenges. Alberta “Birdie” Carpenter, Distinguished Member of Research Staff and Senior Researcher in NLR’s Strategic Energy Analysis Center, accepted the award. Her work focuses on industrial decarbonization, circular economy strategies, and environmental and justice impacts.

Rui Shi develops tools that bring LCA into technology development earlier, when the opportunity to change course is greatest. An Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Penn State, her research includes agile LCA frameworks for evaluating emerging technologies such as biorefineries, plastics recycling and circular manufacturing pathways before they reach commercial scale.

Reed Miller is helping build the professional capacity needed to put LCA into practice. An Assistant Professor in the University of Maine’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Miller teaches LCA and engineering decision-making and is launching an online micro-credential introducing practicing engineers to LCA and EPDs. His students apply LCA to real-world engineering and materials challenges.

Quintino Medi brings a science-diplomacy perspective to LCA, focused on connecting scientific evidence with communities, policymakers and practitioners positioned to act on it. A doctoral student at Clemson University, Medi has also served as an ACLCA conference student volunteer for the past three years, demonstrating an early commitment to both the practice and professional community of LCA.