Northrop Grumman Restructures Several Business Areas

Northrop Grumman Corporation has announced several organizational changes and associated executive-level appointments within its Electronic Systems sector. These changes will better position the sector for future business opportunities.

• George W. Perkins, sector vice president, Business Operations and Global Solutions
  
• Taylor W. Lawrence, sector vice president and general manager, C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) Systems Division
  
• John V. DeMaso , sector vice president and general manager, Naval & Marine Systems Division.

George W. Perkins, in the newly created position of sector vice president, Business Operations and Global Solutions, will be responsible for capital resources, facilities and security as well as safety and environmental compliance. He will also continue to have executive oversight for the Global Solutions (formerly Airspace Management Systems) business unit. He had been vice president and general manager of the former C4ISR and Naval Systems Division, which is being divided into two divisions.
Mr. Perkins joined Northrop Grumman in 1997 following a distinguished 26-year career with the U.S. Navy and private industry. He earned a bachelor’s degree in management from the U.S. Naval Academy and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Michigan.
Taylor W. Lawrence, as sector vice president and general manager of the newly formed C4ISR Systems Division, will be responsible for helping accelerate the sector’s business growth in the command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance business areas. In addition, he will chair the sector’s newly formed Intelligence Program Council. He is formerly vice president and general manager of the Systems Development and Technology Division.
Prior to joining Northrop Grumman in 1999, Lawrence served as staff director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and earlier served as deputy director of the information systems office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. He previously was engaged in various research activities at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and NASA’s Office of Exploration. He earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from the California Institute of Technology and master’s and doctorate degrees in applied physics from Stanford University.
John V. DeMaso, as sector vice president and general manager of the new Naval & Marine Systems Division, will be responsible for all programs and business objectives associated with those sector businesses located in Charlottesville, Va.; Sunnyvale, Calif.; Annapolis, Md.; Ocean Springs, Miss., and New Malden, U.K. He is formerly president of the company’s Charlottesville-based Sperry Marine business unit.
With more than 30 years of executive management experience in the naval and marine technology industry, Mr. DeMaso previously served as vice president of marketing, sales and service and executive vice president of operations at Sperry Marine. He earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering from North Carolina State University and an MBA from the College of William and Mary.