MCLEAN, Va., Aug. 24, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Northrop
Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) announced it has appointed
Skip Magness, vice president,
operations, for its cyber division within the company's Information
Systems sector, effective immediately.
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Magness will report to Shawn
Purvis, vice president and general manager, cyber division,
and will have executive responsibility for the coordination,
execution and optimization of internal operations and resources to
fulfill the division's long-term and annual operating plan
commitments. This includes workforce and resource planning, driving
affordability initiatives and managing the day-to-day business
structure of the organization. In this role, he will have direct
oversight of the execution of division's strategy, new business
pursuits and the expansion of the division's core capabilities and
collaboration initiatives.
"Skip brings to this role an incredible amount of program and
operations experience," said Purvis. "He is a proven business
leader and we will look to his expertise to optimize our
operations, utilizing his breadth of experience across our
different mission areas and customer domains."
Most recently, Magness was the director of network defense and
intelligence operations for the cyber division, where he was
responsible for the delivery of mission-critical cyber solutions to
customers in the federal government, including the Department of
Homeland Security, as well as several customers in the intelligence
community.
Magness joined Northrop Grumman in 1990 and has extensive
experience in program management, strategic development and
planning, business development, operations and systems engineering.
Before making his transition to industry, Magness' career included
several years in the research and engineering organization of the
National Security Agency (NSA) as a systems engineer developing
various intelligence systems. He began his career in the NSA's
cooperative education program.
He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from
Drexel University and a master's degree
in business administration from the University
of Maryland. He is also a senior fellow at the Center for
Cyber and Homeland Security (CCHS) at the George Washington University.
Northrop Grumman is a leading global security company providing
innovative systems, products and solutions in unmanned systems,
cyber, C4ISR, and logistics and modernization to government and
commercial customers worldwide. Please visit
www.northropgrumman.com for more information.
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