Executive Vice President, Space Systems

Joanne Maguire is Executive Vice President of Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company (SSC) and an officer of Lockheed Martin Corporation.  SSC employs approximately 15,000 people and generated more than $8 billion in sales for Lockheed Martin in 2011.

Under her leadership SSC provides a broad array of advanced-technology systems for national security, civil, and commercial customers.  Chief products include human space flight systems; a full range of remote sensing, navigation, meteorological, and communications satellites; strategic and missile defense systems; space observatories and interplanetary spacecraft.

Ms. Maguire serves on the board of directors for United Launch Alliance, a Lockheed Martin joint venture, and on the board of Lockheed Martin UK, which oversees the Corporation’s interests in Great Britain.  She actively supports several non-profit organizations, including chairing the Advisory Council for Rocky Mountain USO (United Service Organizations), which provides men and women in uniform with morale, welfare, and recreational services. She also serves as a member of the advisory council for the Denver School of Science & Technology (DSST), a free, open-enrollment, college preparatory charter school with a science and technology focus, and is a member of the UCLA Engineering Advisory Council.

She is the first female to receive the prestigious International von Karman Wings Award presented by the California Institute of Technology in 2010 for her visionary accomplishments in space, and was honored with UCLA’s Alumni Achievement Award in 2010. She received the National Defense Industrial Association’s distinguished Peter B. Teets Space Division award in 2012 for contributions that have strengthened national security by direct application of space capabilities and enhanced the industrial technology base.  She has been selected numerous times by Fortune magazine to its annual list of “50 Most Powerful Women in Business.”  Girls Inc. honored her in 2008 for her achievements as a “leader and role model for young women,” and in 2009, she received the Society of Women Engineers’ Upward Mobility Award in recognition of her outstanding contributions in aerospace engineering and for pioneering work in technology and diversity management.

Ms. Maguire assumed her current position in 2006.  She previously served as Vice President and Deputy to the Executive Vice President of Space Systems, assisting with the full range of general management duties.  Ms. Maguire joined Lockheed Martin in 2003 serving initially as the company’s Vice President, Special Programs, focused on sensitive national security space system developments.  

Prior to joining Lockheed Martin, Ms. Maguire enjoyed a productive career at TRW’s Space & Electronics sector (now part of Northrop Grumman) participating in missions spanning national security, civil, and international space.  At TRW, she assumed a range of progressively responsible positions from engineering analyst to Vice President and Deputy to the sector’s CEO, holding leadership roles over  programs as well as engineering, advanced technology, manufacturing, and business development functions.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Michigan State University and a master’s degree in engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).  Ms. Maguire also completed the executive program in management at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management and the Harvard Program for Senior Executives in National and International Security.  She was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2011 and is a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and a member of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA).