Nelson To Lead Northrup Grumman Engineering

By  //  March 11, 2013

30-Year Company Veteran

BREVARD COUNTY • MELBOURNE, FLORIDA – Peggy Nelson, vice president and program manager of Northrup Grumman’s advanced mission programs business area, has been appointed a VP of engineering and global product development.

Veteran aerospace program manager Peggy Nelson has been named vice president of Northrup Grumman’s engineering and global product development. (Image courtesy of Northrup Grumman Corporation)

The 30-year company veteran will be responsible for leading the aerospace systems sector in developing products for customers, according to a press release issued by the company

Tom Vice. Northrup Grumman Corporate vice president and aerospace systems sector president, said Nelson has experience in building teams with the goal of helping drive innovation.

Nelson has previously served as lead executive for mission assurance, quality systems, engineering capabilities and university alliances for the company’s former space technology sector.

Prior to that, she served as VP and Prometheus 1 project manager with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and director for the systems development organization in Northrop’s former mission systems sector.

Nelson graduated from the University of California in Los Angeles with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and earned her electrical engineering master’s degree from California State University in Northridge.

She has also completed the Executive School of Management program at UCLA.

Northrop Grumman’s Melbourne facility is a significant component of the aerospace industry in Brevard County.

The site employs more than 1,300 and is home to Northrup Grumman programs for the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Army and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.