He announced his new role in a LinkedIn post on Wednesday.
In this capacity, Drews will serve as a cross business-area executive overseeing a portfolio of organizations focused on developing all-domain systems and nuclear command, control and communications capabilities for global connectivity.
He most recently served as chief engineer at Lockheed Martin Space, where he led innovation strategies and technical excellence for about 12,000 engineers in support of space, mission and ground system mission areas.
Before joining Lockheed in 2000, Drews held project management and engineering roles at Octant Technologies and Integrated Systems and started his career at NASA’s Ames Research Center as an aerospace engineer, according to his LinkedIn profile.
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