David “Heat” Lyons, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel, has joined Scientific Systems Co. Inc. as vice president of business development.
He will bring to the role over three decades of aerospace and defense industry experience as he oversees SSCI’s client base and new markets, the company said Thursday.
Lyons, a global strike subject matter expert, was an F-16 fighter pilot and served as an instructor at the U.S. Air Force Weapons School.
His military career included time as an operational adviser to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and staff assignments at the Headquarters Air Force and sub-unified command.
He previously served as growth lead for spectrum systems at Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY) and was a National Defense Fellow at the Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
Scientific Systems President Kunal Mehra said the company has developed capabilities in artificial intelligence, autonomy-at-the-edge and machine learning in the past 30 years and Lyons will help bring such capabilities to warfighters.
