NORTHROP APPOINTS STRATEGY EXECUTIVE.Byline: Daily News PALMDALE - Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is an aerospace and defense conglomerate that is the result of the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company is the third largest defense contractor for the U.S. appointed Matthew W. Ganz as sector vice president for strategy and technology for Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems. Ganz will serve as chief technology officer for the sector, which includes Northrop Grumman's Palmdale plant, and will be responsible for developing the integrated business strategy and for executing long-range operating, planning and reporting processes. Reporting to Ralph D. Crosby Jr., corporate vice president and sector president, he will advise senior management on the sector's position in selected markets, external strategic relationships and priorities for allocating investment resources. Bringing over 15 years of experience in strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. and new business development to Northrop Grumman, Ganz was most recently managing director and chief executive officer of Navigator Technology Ventures, Cambridge, Mass. He previously served as vice president of technology and vice president of programs at The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., formerly the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, was founded by Charles Stark Draper in the late 1930s to teach students how to design the scientific instruments necessary to accurately measure and study motion. , where he was responsible for program management, strategic planning and new business development. Ganz also worked for the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency Defense Advanced Research Project Agency - Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency as director of the Sensor Technology Office, and was an associate group leader for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory MIT Lincoln Laboratory, also known as Lincoln Lab, is a federally funded research and development center managed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and primarily funded by the United States Department of Defense. . Ganz holds doctorate, master's and bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering from Ohio State University Ohio State University, main campus at Columbus; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1870, opened 1873 as Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, renamed 1878. There are also campuses at Lima, Mansfield, Marion, and Newark. . He is a member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board and has served on several panels of the Defense Science Board. |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion