Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has appointed Linnie Haynesworth vice president and deputy program director for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS). In this position, Haynesworth will remain responsible for execution of the current program of record, for which Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems sector is the prime contractor.

The White House announced February 1 that NPOESS, a dual weather-climate satellite program being developed for the U.S. Air Force and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), would be terminated. Haynesworth had been NPOESS deputy director since June 2008 and has more than 30 years of experience with the company. She has held business development, functional and program positions of increasing responsibility in multiple sectors of the company. Her program experience includes government, commercial and international partnerships. Prior to this assignment, she led the former Space Technology subcontracts organization.