Dan Crowley, longtime Lockheed Martin executive who led the company’s F-35 strike fighter program through May, has begun a new gig—with Raytheon. Crowley now runs Raytheon Network Centric Systems in McKinney, Tex., which is about 50 miles northeast of Fort Worth, home to Lockheed’s aeronautics business unit, where he was chief operating officer. “Dan’s extensive industry background and deep expertise in operations, engineering, strategic business development, and global customer engagement are ideally suited to his new role with Raytheon,” said Bill Swanson, Raytheon chairman and CEO, in the company’s release. Crowley succeeds Colin Schottlaender as NCS president. The latter is retiring.
Facing competition from fast-growing startups, Lockheed Martin is speeding up production of an “affordable, scalable” hypersonic glide body, dubbed the Next Generation Glide Body, the firm said in a June 24 release.