Mercury Systems, Inc. Announces Appointment of Orlando P. Carvalho to Its Board of Directors
January 14, 2020 at 04:01 pm
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Mercury Systems, Inc. announced that Orlando P. Carvalho, former Executive Vice President of Lockheed Martin’s Aeronautics business, was elected to the company's Board of Directors on January 13, 2020. Mr. Carvalho was elected as a Class III Director and will stand for re-election at the company's 2020 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. Mr. Carvalho was appointed to each of the Compensation Committee and the Government Relations Committee of the Board of Directors. With this election, the Board of Directors will consist of nine members, eight of which are independent directors. Mr. Carvalho has over 38 years of experience in the aerospace and defense industry with Lockheed Martin. Before his retirement from Lockheed Martin in 2018, he was Executive Vice President of Lockheed Martin’s Aeronautics business, a 24,000-employee enterprise. Mr. Carvalho held several integral leadership positions with Lockheed Martin, including Executive Vice President and General Manager of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter program, President of Lockheed Martin Mission Systems & Sensors, and General Manager and Vice President of Surface-Sea Based Ballistic Missile Defense Systems. Mr. Carvalho presently serves as the Vice Chairman on the Board of Advisors for the University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business and he is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Mercury Systems, Inc. is a technology company that delivers processing power for aerospace and defense missions. The Company's end-to-end processing platform enables a range of aerospace and defense programs, optimized for mission success in challenging and demanding environments. Processing technologies that comprise its platform include signal solutions, display, software applications, networking, storage and secure processing. It manufactures components, products, modules and subsystems for defense prime contractors, the United States government, and original equipment manufacturers (OEM) commercial aerospace companies. Its mission critical solutions are deployed by its customers for a variety of applications, including command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR), electronic intelligence, mission computing avionics, electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR), electronic warfare, weapons and missile defense, hypersonics and radar.