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he and his team provide, the structure of developing, testing and fielding an operational BMDS would breakdown. Bushra has met many challenges during his tenure. One challenge he has routinely faced is the need to syn- chronize and standardize threat across radar, missile, space and communications systems programs, but with his team of fifty engineers strategically placed all over the world, he has stayed ahead of evolving sources, types and mo- tives of threat, and led development of tough scenarios against which ground test missile defense tests are done. He also maintains open dialog with multiple organizations within the U.S. Intelligence community and Department of Defense agencies. Bushra also spends much of his time fostering next generation missile defense professionals by serving as a mentor for interns and early-career engineers.
Hugh Butler Division Director, Business Management Navigation Systems Northrop Grumman Corporation
track record of directing and improving business management operations in the defense industry. He graduated in 1978 with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Whittier College, California, and over a decade cut his teeth on multimillion subcontracts for the space shuttle and anti-submarine warfare navy programs at Lockheed Martin and Rockwell Space. He joined Northrop Grumman (NG) in 1985 and built on his reputation for cost saving and increasing the bottom line operating margin.
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Since that time, Butler has held positions of increas- ing responsibility on programs, such as the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber and Longbow Hellfire Missile Guidance. He served as a business manager for the corporation’s high- volume manufacturing land combat systems Alabama plant (1999-2003). From Huntsville, he moved to the space based infrared systems program in California and successfully turned things around resulting in a huge increase in operating margins by more than $40 million. For his next challenge, he moved to the Joint Strike Fighter program, one of the largest single procurements by the U.S. Department of Defense. There he reorganized the business management team to grow along with the increasing contract requirements. As the Director of Business Management in navigation and positioning systems since 2008, Butler has led an operat- ing margin initiative that improved margins by fifty percent in 2009. He is responsible for more than two hundred and fifty employees, greater than $800 million in annual sales.
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Wayne E. Brown Director, Supplier Quality Boeing Commercial Airplanes The Boeing Company
his thirtieth year in the aerospace industry in the summer of 2010. His career began in 1980 while he was an undergraduate engineering student at the University of Arizona. He worked at night as a shop floor mechanic building Learjets, and completed both junior and senior years of college during the day. About a year into a new position at Hughes Aircraft, he was asked whether he’d like to become a quality control inspector. He accepted and was trained in the science and art of tooling and quality. McDon- nell Douglas later bought Hughes Aircraft and from 1985 to 1990, Brown designed and oversaw construction of various tools and test stands. He was named manager of a quality technologies labora- tory and in 1992 led his engineering technical support to achieve Software Engineering Institute Level 3 rating for software configura- tion and quality control systems, the first for McDonnell Douglas Corporation (MDC). They also achieved simultaneous certification rating from the U.S. Department of Defense and the Federal Aviation Association. He was awarded MDC’s quality achievement award for leading system transformation. Following the merger of MDC and Boeing, Brown continued his technical leadership focus on process management and quality improvement activities, resulting in more than a million dollars in savings. Brown has also served as a senior manager for executive staff, as the Director of Human Resources and Shared Services, Director of 747 Program Quality, Director of Boeing Commercial Airplane (BCA) Engineering Human Resources, and Director of Productivity Improvement Projects. He was appointed to lead BCA’s supplier quality organization in January 2008, with more than five hundred team members that work with suppliers to improve the quality of hardware, software and services. In 2009, he created a systemic improvement that resulted in a fifteen percent reduction in airplane factory disruption in 2009. He also achieved the same degree of supply chain quality performance in 2010. Children and education are also a focus for Brown. He is involved with mentoring both with Boeing and outside the company. He has served on the Snohomish County Boys and Girls Club board for nine years. Over the past two years, he has served as President of the International Aerospace Quality Groups, an important industry body that plays a vital role in the health of the aerospace industry relative to quality. He is a senior member of the American Society for Quality, the Society of Aerospace Engineers, and is active with the NAACP and NSBE. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Business Administration from the University of Phoenix, in 1988 and 1994, and a master’s degree in Aeronautical Science from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 1991. He played a big part in establishing the first diversity council at Boeing.
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