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Swales Aerospace to Realign Business Operations

 

BELTSVILLE, Md., Dec. 7/Satnews Daily/ ¾ Swales Aerospace will reorganize its internal business structure, effective January 1, 2005, to better meet the demands of its expanding customer base. Swales Aerospace said the new company structure will consist of four Strategic Business Units (SBUs). A corporate vice president, reporting directly to the CEO, Tom Wilson, will lead each unit.

 

As Vice President of the Civil Services SBU, Art Chomas, who has been with Swales for fifteen years, will be responsible for the company's core engineering support business to its NASA customers, including Goddard Space Flight Center, Langley Research Center, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Johnson Space Center.

 

Pete Weinberger has been with Swales since 1982. As the new Vice President with responsibility for Commercial Programs and Engineering Services, he will lead the business unit that provides flight hardware and thermal management systems for commercial space systems in the U.S. and Europe.

 

Dan Mark, a Swales employee for 12 years, was named Vice President in charge of Civil Programs. In this role he will have responsibility for leading the company's activities to provide full service technology and systems solutions for NASA's Exploration and Science initiatives.

 

Tom Wilson, Jr., has been overseeing the company's activities in the national security arena since he joined Swales in 2001. As Vice President of the National Security Programs and Engineering Services SBU, he will lead business efforts to bring the full complement of the company's aerospace engineering and satellite capabilities to meet needs in the national security space sector.

 

The company also announced creation of an Engineering Directorate, led by Dennis McCarthy, Vice President, and a Production Operations organization, led by Paul Barcomb, Vice President, to support the new SBU-based structure and to ensure the successful implementation of customer objectives. In a related move, Eric Haught was named Vice President of Strategic Planning.

 

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