 He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery on March 22, 2010.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.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".