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From designing the world’s largest transducer; to lobster-like surf crawling robots to detect and destroy mines; to creating a new bowling score system; to designing, building and delivering sonar systems used by the most powerful navy on the planet,

Massa Products Corporation represents nearly eight decades of invention and innovation. Dawn Massa Stancavish shares her insights and experience as a female, third generation leader of this innovative sonar and ultrasonic products engineering company.

Dawn Massa Stancavish standing in front of a display at the Reagan National

Library’s “Secrets of

By Greg Trauthwein

WWII” exhibit honoring her grandfather, Frank Massa.

Photo courtesy Massa Products Corporation ollowing in the footsteps of But through it all, Dawn Massa Stancavish has fallen back on an invention and engineering her broad business acumen, as well as her long-tenured experi- pioneer is neither straight nor ence in and love of the family business to prepare Massa for easy. Following in the foot- another generation of growth.

steps of your grandfather and Massa Products Corporation is self-proclaimed as “the eyes father, taking the helm of a and ears for naval ships and submarines,” founded by Frank 77-year-old iconic company Massa, who pioneered the ? eld of electroacoustics. Today Mas- in the midst of a global pan- sa engineers and manufactures sonar and ultrasonic products for demic, as a female leader in use in the water and air, selling to commercial, industrial and a male-dominated business, military markets.

makes the path a bit more per- At a glance, Massa is an engineering and invention company to ilous. its core. But once you dig deeper, it is far more, with the ability

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