Director, Business Strategy and Development for Airborne Early Warning Programs, Integrated Systems Sector, Northrop Grumman Corporation

As Director of Business Strategy and Development for Airborne Early Warning Programs, Mr. Wood is responsible for directing both domestic and international new business pursuits for the E-2C Hawkeye and C-2A Greyhound aircraft programs. He leads the Business Capture Integrated Product Team and sets the strategic business direction and future technology development for all new business activities within the AEW IPT.

Prior to this assignment, Mr. Wood worked for Anteon International Inc., a $1B defense services company, as a program manager for one of their Naval programs business sites. He also worked for the Boeing Company from 1998 to 2001 as their Manager for F/A-18 Business Development leading the Washington, DC business development and marketing effort for the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet.

Mr. Wood is a retired 21-year career Naval aviator, having flown over 11 different aircraft. He has had 27 years experience in Naval aviation, high technology aerospace projects, war-fighting requirements development and program management. He has over 4,000 flight hours and 800 carrier landings in primarily the A-7, F/A-18, and F-14 aircraft and has also flown the E-2 and S-3 aircraft. As the F/A-18 Requirements Officer in his last tour in the Pentagon, he authored the Operational Requirements Document (ORD) on the F/A-18E/F aircraft and the Advanced Targeting FLIR (ATFLIR). He wrote the requirement for the F/A-18F aircraft to replace the F-14 and worked on all fleet requirements/ORD development for the F/A-18E/F Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar, the Shared Reconnaissance Pod (SHARP), MIDS, IDECM, and Night Vision Goggles (NVGs), and all associated weapons/avionics systems for the F/A-18A/B/C/D/E/F aircraft. In addition he worked on the requirement and program start for the F/A-18G aircraft, (EW variant as a follow-on to the EA-6B).

He commanded an F/A-18 squadron and made seven deployments to the Western Pacific, Indian Ocean and Arabian Gulf region during his Naval career. Two of these deployments were at the cessation of Desert Storm hostilities and in Operation Southern Watch, flying 32 combat missions over Iraq as a combat strike leader.

Mr. Wood joined Northrop Grumman Corporation in April of 2003. Mr. Wood holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History from the University of Rochester, a Masters Degree in Organization Development form the University of San Francisco, and a Masters Degree in National Security & Strategic Studies from the Naval War College.

Northrop Grumman's Integrated Systems is a premier aerospace systems integration enterprise. It has the capabilities to design, develop, integrate, produce and support complete systems, as well as airframe subsystems, for airborne surveillance and battle management aircraft, early warning aircraft, airborne electronic warfare aircraft, and air combat aircraft.