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.
The U.S., South Korea, and Japan flew an unusual trilateral flight with two U.S. B-52H Stratofortress bombers escorted by two Japan Air Self-Defense Force F-2s, and two ROK Air Force KF-16 fighters—both countries’ respective variants of the F-16—July 11. That same weekend, the top military officers of the three nations…