by the Service's weapon budgets, which devote most funding to fighters rather than bombers. Retirement Allen did not believe that manned spaceflight was useful. He reportedly told a Manned Spaceflight Engineer that he had helped cancel Manned Orbiting Laboratory in the 1960s, and would have canceled the Space Shuttle program. Following his retirement from the Air Force in 1982, Allen became the director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), during part of the Voyager Program (space probes launched in 1977), and he served as the Director of the JPL until 1990. Allen was a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the Council on Foreign Relations. From 1993 to 1995, Allen served as a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) and the Intelligence Oversight Board. Allen was awarded the 1999 Distinguished Graduate Award of the Association of Graduates, the alumni association of West Point graduates. Allen died in Potomac Falls, Virginia, on January 4, 2010, of complications from rheumatoid arthritis. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery on March 22, 2010. Legacy The United States Air Force created the General Lew Allen, Jr. Trophy in Allen's honor, which is awarded annually to an Officer and a Senior NCO in the aircraft maintenance or munitions career fields directly involved with setting up aircraft sorties. In 1983, Allen received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement. Since 1986, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory awards in his honor the Lew Allen Award for Excellence, until 1990 called the Director's Research Achievement Award. Minor planet 4125 Lew Allen is named in his honor. Awards and decorations See also Project Shamrock References External links Official Air Force biography JPL mourns passing of former director Lew Allen – JPL/NASA News Service United States Air Force generals 1925 births 2010 deaths Directors of the National Security Agency Recipients of the Legion of Merit Chiefs of Staff of the United States Air Force United States Military Academy alumni Grainger College of Engineering alumni People from Gainesville, Texas Deaths from arthritis Burials at Arlington National Cemetery Vice Chiefs of Staff of the United States Air Force Recipients of the Defense Distinguished Service Medal Recipients of the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal Recipients of the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal Military personnel from Texas