 Neil G. Siegel
Neil G. Siegel
Sector Vice President, Technology and Advanced Systems
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems
Neil G. Siegel is sector vice president of technology and advanced systems. Within Northrop Grumman's 17,000-person Mission Systems sector, Mr. Siegel is responsible for (a) the technical content of major programs and bids; (b) the creation of technologies that create positive market differentiation; (c) the activities that grow key technical talent for the sector (he has created several effective and innovative methods for cultivating and maturing technical leaders); (d) the creation of a sector-level technology strategy that is responsive to the sector's business aspirations (and aligning and synergizing those strategies with the strategies of other Northrop Grumman sectors), and overseeing the execution and monitoring of those strategies; (e) technology partnerships; and (f) intellectual asset management.
Prior to taking this assignment, Mr. Siegel was the sector vice president and general manager of the company’s Tactical Systems Division, whose organic growth averaged 25 percent per year during the seven years he ran that organization. Before that, he held increasingly-responsible positions in engineering, business development, and program management, and led successful activities in commercial information technology, simulation and training, radar, and intelligence processing. He has international business experience in both the Middle East and Europe.
He has supervised the creation and fielding of successful systems and products in many domains, including air/missile defense, battle command, Blue-Force Tracking, network-centric warfare, tactical operations centers, integrated security/force protection, commercial information technology, simulation and training, radar, intelligence, unmanned air vehicles, and logistics automation.
Mr. Siegel has led Northrop Grumman to become the world leader in battlefield digitization – the use of information technology and wireless networking to improve the effectiveness of combined-arms land combat forces. Battlefield digitization achieves force multiplication through improved situational awareness, improved operational tempo, and decreased mission timelines. The resulting product – sometimes called "Blue-Force Tracking" – is deployed on thousands of U.S. Army and U.S. Marine vehicles worldwide, including in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. Blue-Force Tracking played a decisive role in these combat and peacekeeping operations, and commanders credit this system with improving the outcome of combat operations, and saving lives by reducing the "fog of war."
He has also played important roles in the creation of several other businesses for the corporation, including mobile command posts, force protection, integrated security systems, wireless battlefield networking, air defense command and control (C2), missile defense BM/C2, logistics automation, and military-base information technology infrastructures.
He had executive responsibility for the maturation of the Hunter Unmanned Air Vehicle program, a reliable and effective weapon system.
He was the program manager for the U.S. Army's "digitization of the battlefield" activity, which received recognition in 2001 as one of the five best-managed software programs in the entire U.S. government, and has also been awarded the 2003 Institute for Defense and Government Advancement’s award for the most innovative U.S. government program, the 2003 Federal Computer Week Monticello Award (given in recognition of an information system that has a direct, meaningful impact on human lives), and other awards.
His patents and inventions span many domains, including real-time manufacturing, medical systems, communications protocols, and computing systems. Other contributions to the company’s technology base include work in networking, software development methodologies, system-of-systems engineering, and advanced systems integration techniques.
Mr. Siegel has been a member of various government panels such as Defense Advanced Research Project Agency Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence panel, the Army Science Board, and the Defense Science Board.
He has received a variety of other awards from the company, from customers, and for his involvement with community and charitable affairs.
He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2005, and is now one of only five active Northrop Grumman employees to be so honored.
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