{"id":82382,"date":"2018-10-18T07:44:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T11:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=82382"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:33:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:33:06","slug":"engineer-who-changed-the-way-the-navy-designed-ships-and-fought-discrimination-dies-at-83-u-s-stripes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=82382","title":{"rendered":"Engineer who changed the way the Navy designed ships and fought discrimination dies at 83 – U.S. – Stripes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Raye Montague, a trailblazing black woman from Arkansas who revolutionized the way the U.S. Navy designed ships, has died. She was 83.<\/p>\n

Montague, who had a 33-year career in the Navy, developed a computer program that created rough drafts of ship specifications. She told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in 2012 that the program allowed the Navy to cut the time it took to build a ship’s draft design from two years to 18 hours and 26 minutes.<\/p>\n

The newspaper reports she died Wednesday at a hospital in Little Rock. Her son, David Montague, says his mother died of congestive heart failure.<\/p>\n

Raye Montague, a civilian engineer, fought discrimination during her career. When a co-worker wouldn’t show her how to operate a computer, she taught herself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n