Keynote: "Capabilities and Technologies to Stay Ahead of Ready" -- Linda Cadwell Stancin, Vice President Air Vehicle Engineering, Aeronautics, Lockheed Martin - Capabilities and Technologies to Stay Ahead of Ready

Linda Cadwell Stancin is currently serving as Vice President, Air Vehicle Engineering at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company. The Directorates in AVE include Military Operations Analysis, Conceptual Design, Flight Sciences, Vehicle Systems, Model Base Systems Engineering, Structures Engineering, Material, Specialty, and Process Engineering, Simulations, Test and Evaluation and Flight Test. AVE leadership provides functional strategies, engineering expertise and staffing to support all Aeronautics programs and technologies. Approximately 5000 AVE engineers, scientists and technicians serve Lockheed Martin and our customers. Linda is also the Engineering executive sponsor for the development and implementation of Model Base and Digital Engineering.

She previously served as Vice President of Research and Technology in Lockheed Martin’s Chief Technology Organization. This role included: Global Research and Innovation, Research Programs, Technology Integration and Intellectual Property Management, Tech Collaboration, and Emerging Operations Technologies. She also served as the Chair of Lockheed Martin’s Technology Council, executive sponsor of the LM Fellows Program, Co-Chair of the EO Intellectual Property Board, and represented Engineering and Technology on the EO Diversity and Inclusion Council and the corporate Sustainability Leadership Group.

She joined Lockheed in March 2018 from Spirit AeroSystems to stand up Emerging Technologies for Digital Transformation. At Spirit AeroSystems, Linda was the executive leader of Research and Manufacturing Technology for the corporation.She led teams across multiple sites, including a research site in Scotland. Her teams provided research and engineering enabling significant OEM and other business wins. She was also the technical executive responsible for Intellectual Property strategy and the sponsor of the Technical Fellowship. Prior to this role she was the Director of Corporate Structures Engineering and Technology, including laboratories, structures analysis and certification, material and process engineering, and executive skill team leadership for Engineering.

Before joining Spirit, Linda worked at the Boeing Company for 16 years. Her last role was as senior manager for Composites, Interiors and Finishes Technologies for Boeing Commercial Airplanes.She also led the multidisciplinary skill area for the enterprise. Prior to this role she led corporate research and technology support to BCA Product Development.

Linda is currently on the Board for the Manufacturing Institute MxD. She advises and was an affiliate professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. She received her Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with research in materials science. She has multiple publications and patents.