McCabe brings more than 20 years of executive legal and operations leadership at high-technology companies and currently serves as SVP and general counsel at Alion Sciences and Technology Corp., Orbital said Monday.
A former vice president and deputy general counsel at XM Satellite Radio, McCabe earlier held senior legal and financial positions at GRC International after serving as a partner at law firm McCarthy and Burke.
McCabe previously served as a judicial law clerk in U.S. District Court to Judge C.R. Richey and holds graduate law and business degrees from Notre Dame and an undergraduate degree from Georgetown.