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Ball Aerospace Divides Growing Defense Business Unit, Names New Leadership |
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BROOMFIELD, Colo., Aug. 1, 2006/Satnews Daily/ ― Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has divided its defense operations organization unit into two separate business units to provide enhanced customer focus and to position the company for future opportunities.
To refine the company's structure and further drive that success, two new business units have been established:
· National Defense Solutions is a new business unit led by Fred Doyle, formerly vice president, special programs. This organization combines the company's space hardware capabilities and systems engineering expertise to provide focused solutions for nationally significant intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and space superiority missions.
· The Advanced Technologies & Products business unit led by Drew Crouch, formerly vice president, corporate strategy, relations and administration, focuses the company's core technology and product capabilities into one organization serving civil, commercial and national security program needs. This business unit will strengthen the company's merchant supplier position in the aerospace market.
Fred Doyle joined Ball Aerospace in 2005 as vice president of special programs. He continues to oversee these programs. Prior to joining Ball Aerospace, Doyle held various executive-level positions at Space Imaging and spent 20 years in government service with the Defense Mapping Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). He holds a master's degree in photogrammetry from Purdue University and a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Virginia Tech.
Drew Crouch has held a number of executive, managerial and technical positions at Ball Aerospace during his 13-year tenure with the company. He led strategic development and corporate relations and supported key operational and financial performance activities during the company's recent five-year period of unprecedented growth. In addition to his experience at Ball Aerospace, Crouch served in executive leadership positions in several venture-funded development stage technology companies and a privately funded venture finance firm. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University.
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