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Michael A. Heffron
Mike Heffron is president of the Electronics & Integrated Solutions (E&IS) operating group within BAE Systems. E&IS, with headquarters in Nashua, New Hampshire, is a major defense electronics business with 17,000 employees in 16 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, the United Kingdom, and Israel. The group designs, develops, and manufactures a wide range of electronic and intelligence systems, and provides integrated solutions for military and commercial applications.
Heffron previously served as president of the Platform Solutions business for E&IS. Before taking that position in April 2006, he headed the Information Warfare business since its formation in March 2003. Prior to that, he was vice president of engineering for the Information & Electronic Warfare Systems unit of BAE Systems. He has been a BAE Systems employee since the company purchased several aerospace and electronic companies from Lockheed Martin in 2000.
Heffron began his defense and industry career in 1978 as an engineer for the U.S. Air Force. In 1986, he joined Lockheed Martin’s Aero Naval Systems in Baltimore, Maryland as a senior principal engineer. From 1994 to 1995, he served as associate director of programs for the Lockheed Martin Corporate Research Center at Baltimore, and then joined Sanders, a Lockheed Martin Company, as director of programs for its Signal Processing Center of Technology. In 1997, he became the Sniper program director in Sanders’ Avionics Division, and then director of program operations for the company’s Mission and Space Electronics Division. He was appointed vice president of engineering for Sanders in 1998, and continued in that role following the BAE Systems acquisition in November 2000.
He received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Detroit, and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Syracuse University.
Mike and his wife, Dawn, reside in Bedford, New Hampshire. They have two children.
E&IS offers products and integration services, including electronic warfare and self-protection systems; surveillance and intelligence systems; platform systems; sensor and precision targeting systems; communication, navigation, identification, and reconnaissance systems; large-scale enterprise solutions and information management systems in support of the defense and intelligence communities; mission-specific software and geospatial exploitation products; advanced information technology; and rapid C4ISR prototyping, among others.
BAE Systems is the premier global defense and aerospace company delivering a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, information technology solutions and customer support services. With 97,500 employees worldwide, BAE Systems' sales exceeded $31.4 billion in 2007.
