Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has promoted 13-year company veteran Lucas Firliet to director of information technology within its defense systems business sector.
The former automation and controls engineering manager wrote in a LinkedIn post that he will support the segment’s digital transformation efforts in his new position.
Firliet started his career at Northrop in 2009 as a manufacturing engineer and later he became a program manager with responsibility over F-16 radar sustainment and modernization efforts.
He also managed capital plan and budgets for the company’s Annapolis, Maryland, site capital plan, led a team of manufacturing engineers and oversaw a sector team focused on digital technology and strategy for mission system manufacturing.