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From 2005 to 2007, Mackay was president of a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, which served the Coast Guard. In 2007, he was appointed a Vice President of Corporate Business Development, managing customer relation- ships and corporate orders growth at Lockheed. In 2011, he was elected Vice President of Ethics and Business Conduct by Lock- heed Martin’s Board of Directors. He is responsible for manag- ing the ethics program focused on promoting adherence to the highest standards of personal and professional conduct. Mackay is a board member of the Council of Excellence in Government, member of the U.S. Naval Institute, the Council on Foreign Rela- tions, and the Aspen Strategy Group.
Throughout his 28-year career in the public and private sec- tors, Mackay has taken time to share his experience, knowledge and expertise. He is a mentor to fellow engineers in industry and he has made contributions to organizations that serve the greater good. He is a member of the board of directors of the Cook Chil- dren’s Medical Center and Foundation in Fort Worth and a past president of the Lutheran Inter-City Network Coalition (1999- 2001). Recently, Cook Medical was among 76 facilities ranked in the U.S. News Best Children’s Hospitals. Inter-city network is a cooperative effort of 22 Dallas/Fort Worth area congregations. Mackay is a long-serving chair of the Board of Visitors of the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. Here, he worked hard to arrange meetings with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to help the school reshape its health policy program and improve the care of service members coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan with complex injuries sustained from improvised explosive devices.
There, he analyzed intelligence on ballistic missiles and space systems. While on active duty, he climbed to the rank of cap- tain. He also earned two Master’s degrees from the University of Dayton in 1991, in Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Management, and while there volunteered to tutor undergraduate and graduate engineering students.
Jones won a National Science Foundation engineering doc- toral fellowship in 1991, left active Air Force duty and came to the University of Maryland (UM) in 1992 to pursue a doctorate. While he conducted full time research into helicopter rotors, he helped one of his professors set up a mentoring program for 25 at-risk students from a local high school. As part of a UM outreach program, Jones visited schools to give demonstrations on how helicopters work and encourage students to explore the many different fields of engineering. He also led a group for gradu- ate students (and under- graduates) to prevent them from dropping out of their programs. Over six years at UM’s Clark School, he served as Graduate Student Government President, football and basketball coach and a role model for high- and middle-school kids.
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Christoper T. Jones Senior Vice President and General Manager Integrated Logistics and Modernization Division Northrop Grumman Corporation
service in the military, in the aerospace and defense industry, and the engineer- ing community. As a National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering scholar and on a ROTC scholarship at Georgia Insti- tute of Technology from 1982 to 1986, he led small study groups to support continuous academic achievement. After he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering in 1986 from the Georgia Institute of Technology he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Air Force and assigned as an aerospace engineer at the Wright Patterson Air Force base in Dayton, Ohio.
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After completing his Ph.D. with a concentration in rotorcraft, Jones joined the aerospace industry as the Acoustics Engineer at Sikorsky Aircraft —com- bining his expertise from his Air Force background and his ongoing National Guard activities to improve technologies supporting America’s men and women in uniform. He also continued to maintain his role as a mentor and a role model. Between 1998 and 2004, he was a recruiting lead at his alma mater as a member of the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation re- cruiting group and acted as a liaison with the National Society of Black Engineers and the American Helicopter Society. As a member of the Connecticut Air National Guard, Jones represented the 103rd Air Control Squadron at functions, deploy- ing to Afghanistan as Chief of Maintenance in 2003. His team was responsible for operating all satellite communication, sen- sors, computer and radio equipment for more than 150 close air support missions and 40 troops-in-combat engagements. Jones joined Northrop Grumman Corp. in 2004 as Director of Product Support for the Airborne Aarly Warning and Control Program, leading eight aircraft product support and international programs for the E-2 Hawkeye weapon system, an all-weather,
Becoming the best in their field and using their expertise to af- fect change and accomplish goals globally are the hallmarks of an elite group of Black engi- neers. Eugene Beckles, for ex- ample, manages Boeing’s cus- tomer relationships in countries across the globe. Dr. Cameron Brook leads the healthcare seg- ment of IBM’s Global Public Sector. Roderick M. McLean, a vice president with General Dy- namics, has oversight respon- sibility for the F-16 aircraft for Egypt and the fleet in Bahrain and Jordan. Despite the interna- tional scope of their professional duties, these stellar individuals still find time to help others. Ce- dric V. Bazemore, for example, is with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Japan and is active in a middle school program that gives students the opportunity to shadow professionals.
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