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WALTHAM, Mass., March 1, 2010 -
Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has appointed
William F. Kiczuk to the position of
chief technology officer and vice president, reporting to
Mark E. Russell, the company's vice president of Engineering, Technology and Mission Assurance.
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William F. Kiczuk
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In this role,
Kiczuk will be responsible for developing and executing an integrated technology and research strategy for the company.
He will chair the company's technology leadership team, which oversees
Raytheon's collective research collaboration and technology opportunities.
He will also represent the company on outside councils regarding technology and the defense industry.
"Bill leads with a deep understanding of our technologies from complex systems to components," said
Russell.
"As CTO, he'll leverage this broad domain knowledge to align Raytheon's world-class people and technology as we continue to meet our customers' most pressing needs."
Kiczuk is a Raytheon senior principal engineering fellow with nearly 30 years' experience with the company.
He joins the corporate team from
Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems where he had been
technical director and director, Strategic Architectures, since 2003.
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Prior to that,
Kiczuk held technical leadership positions at
Raytheon Network Centric Systems where he was director of technology development efforts for the
Future Combat Systems program and served as technical director of the
Integrated Land Combat System department.
Raytheon Company, with 2009 sales of
$25 billion, is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, homeland security and other government markets throughout the world.
With a history of innovation spanning 88 years,
Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration and other capabilities in the areas of sensing; effects; and command, control, communications and intelligence systems, as well as a broad range of mission support services.
With headquarters in
Waltham, Mass.,
Raytheon employs 75,000 people worldwide.
Contact:
Jon Kasle
781.522.5110 (office)
Jon_kasle@raytheon.com
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Mark E. Russell
Vice President of Engineering,
Technology and Mission Assurance
Mark E. Russell is vice president of Engineering, Technology and Mission Assurance for Raytheon Company.
He assumed the position in July 2008, and was elected a company officer in June 2008. Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), with 2009 sales of $25 billion, is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, homeland security and other government markets throughout the world.
With headquarters in
Waltham, Mass., Raytheon employs
75,000 people worldwide.
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Mark E. Russell, Vice President of Engineering, Technology and Mission Assurance.
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Russell guides the company’s vision and provides corporate leadership in the strategic areas of technology and research, engineering, operations, performance excellence, programs security,
Raytheon Six Sigma and Mission Assurance.
He is responsible for 45,000 world-class people working on more than 8,000 programs.
Prior to leading Raytheon’s engineering organization,
Russell was
vice president of engineering for Raytheon’s Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) business.
In this role, he was responsible for leading IDS’ engineering activities, including the capture and management of technology and advanced programs; coordination of strategic architecture initiatives; development and production of advanced semiconductor products at Raytheon RF Components; continuous improvement of processes and tools; and product development.
Russell has worked in design engineering, operations, field testing, and project and program management for
state-of-the-art radar, missile and communication systems including
Patriot, HLDA1, Wide Band Gap Semiconductor (WBGS), Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) System, Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor (JLENS), Sea-Based X-Band Radar (SBX), Cobra Judy Replacement, Upgraded Early Warning Radar (UEWR) and the
DDG 1000 destroyer.
He has overseen the management of production facilities, including the
Advanced Products Center and
Raytheon RF Components.
He has also served as director of surface radar engineering, and the
Radar Design and
Electronics Center for Raytheon’s Electronic Systems business, and he has expertise in the development of microwave systems and components.
Russell has published 16 peer-reviewed papers on active electronically steered arrays and radar systems, missiles, photonic technology, solid-state transmitters and communications systems.
He holds
36 patents in the areas of microwave and millimeter wave components, high-range resolution radar applications and missile seekers.
Outside of Raytheon,
Russell provides leadership on the
Board of Directors of the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering and Valeo Raytheon Systems.
He is involved in the
University of Massachusetts K-16 Engineering Collaborative and the
National Science Foundation’s Engineering Research Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA), and he is Raytheon’s campus executive for the University of Massachusetts.
Russell graduated from the University of Massachusetts Lowell with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering.
He joined
Raytheon after graduation, and then attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst under the
Raytheon Advanced Study scholarship program, earning a master’s degree in electrical engineering.
The universities have both honored
Russell for his career accomplishments with distinguished alumni recognition.
Russell has completed several
Raytheon management programs, including the
Executive Leadership Summit and
Business Leadership Program, and is a qualified
Raytheon Six Sigma Specialist.
Russell is a member of the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
http://www.raytheon.com/ourcompany/rtnwcm/groups/public/-documents/profile/bio_russell.pdf