John G. Clark
Senior Vice President, Technology and Strategic Innovation
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John Clark is Lockheed 肛交视频’s senior vice president of Technology and Strategic Innovation. In this capacity, he is responsible for driving the company’s technology strategy and investments. In addition to development of advanced national security strategies, Clark is responsible for Lockheed 肛交视频 Ventures, which invests in early-stage companies developing technologies in strategically important areas like artificial intelligence, robotics, cybersecurity, space, and advanced materials.
Previously, Clark served as vice president and general manager of Lockheed 肛交视频’s Advanced Development Programs (ADP), also known as the Skunk Works?, for Lockheed 肛交视频 Aeronautics. In this capacity, he was responsible for leading all ADP activities and personnel across the Aeronautics enterprise, engaging with a diverse customer community and setting strategic priorities for the growth engine of the business.
Prior to this role, Clark was the Aeronautics Engineering & Technology vice president. In this capacity, he was responsible for the organization’s strategic and operational leadership, ensuring technical integrity of products and processes. This responsibility included the functional leadership of the 8000+ engineers within the Aeronautics business area. He also supported technical concept development.
Clark also was the vice president of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) and Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for the Skunk Works, a portfolio with $800 million in annual sales, with team of about 1,500 employees. His primary responsibilities included leadership of multiple classified programs, development of cross-portfolio business strategies, and multi-domain operations capabilities.
Additionally, Clark was the director of Tactical Systems responsible for leading the concept refinement phase and program capture of a DoD ACAT 1 program valued at over $5B.
He has also previously served as the director of the Focused Technology Roadmaps organization where he and his team transitioned technology to address the needs of all Aeronautics platforms. This included directing a portfolio of technology roadmaps including Survivability, Software Systems, Electronic Warfare, Weapons, Sensors, Cyber, and Anti-Tamper technologies.
In addition, Clark was the thought leader and primary strategist leading the development of an Enterprise-wide Open System Architecture technology strategy guiding internal efforts as well as the Air Force Open Mission Systems standard effort from 2011 to 2014. He served as the Program Manager of multiple UAV Command and Control and Autonomy related programs strategically positioning ADP in the mission autonomy area while leading the development of the core software and hardware architecture for ADP UAV program activities.
Throughout his career, Clark has led several critical initiatives for Lockheed 肛交视频 Corporation, including Open Mission Systems, Common Mission Control Center, System of Systems Integration Technology, Distributed Battle Management, P930, Networked Electronic Attack, and a broad list of science and technology programs capturing over $500M in research and development activities in the last 15 years serving both Air Force and Navy customers.
Clark holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a master’s degree in business administration from Texas Christian University.?
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January 2025