Executive Bios — Marty Broadwell

Marty Broadwell is acting general manager of the Defense Space & Systems (D&SS) Division of EMS Technologies, Inc., serving in this role since December 2006. His responsibilities include providing direction and operational management for D&SS operations in Atlanta, which has more than 250 employees and annual revenues exceeding $50 million.

Broadwell joined EMS Technologies in 2002, and has served in several roles, including Vice President of Programs, with profit & loss responsibility for all D&SS programs, Vice President of Airborne & Terrestrial Systems, and Director of EMS’s Defense and Electronic Systems Business Area, consisting of 15 programs achieving annual revenues of $30 million.

Prior to joining EMS, Broadwell was director of C-5 Avionics Modernization Program for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, a position he held beginning in 1999. In this position, Broadwell managed the $500 million development program to modernize the Air Force’s fleet of C-5 aircraft to meet future Global Air Traffic Management requirements using commercial avionics to upgrade the flight controls and avionics.

From 1997 to 1999, Broadwell served as director of the F-22 Avionics Product Development Team, a $4 billion+ segment of the F-22 development program. The team developed avionics for the world’s most capable fighter aircraft. The contractor team included Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and more than a dozen major avionics suppliers. Under his leadership, the F-22 team integrated and qualified all Block 1 Avionics sub-systems, coordinated the test flight of the avionics system and completed lab integration for Ship 4004 Block 1 first-flight avionics.

From 1994 to 1997, Broadwell was deputy F-22 avionics product manager. He managed all Lockheed Martin Avionics suppliers, and Lockheed Martin’s F -22 avionics workforce of more than 200 staff. Under his leadership, the team completed all software and subsystem CDRs and delivered and supported the avionics for the first F-22 flight in 1997.

From 1991 to 1994, Broadwell launched and managed the Lockheed Martin F-22 Software Engineering department in Marietta, Ga., and led the Joint Boeing-Lockheed Martin Mission Software Product Development Team.

From 1986 to 1990, Broadwell was program manager for a five-year DARPA Pilot’s Associate research program, which he managed through a three-year initial competitive program that culminated in a follow-on down-selection award.