Christopher Duffey Email & Phone Number

Over 34 years experience in Aerospace industry, including space launch support systems, ISR payload integration on large manned and unmanned aircraft, flight test, data analysis. Engineering Director and Chief Engineer on major projects for Northrop Grumman in R&D and Production environments. Critical member of teams that designed, built and tested four "clean sheet" manned and unmanned aircraft designs as well as two general aviation aircraft conversions to optionally piloted.__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Significant Career Assignments;Engineering Director and Chief Systems Architect for Northrop Grumman's Unmanned Systems Center of Excellence product portfolio in Rancho Bernardo California (2013 - 2018)Engineering Director, Chief Systems Architect and Deputy Chief Engineer for Northrop Grumman Strike in Melbourne Florida (2018 - 2021)Vice President and Chief Systems Architect for Aerion Supersonic (2021)Currently the Vice President of Engineering for Freedom Lift Innovations__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Platform Experience; E-8C Joint STARS, Global Hawk (ACTD, Blk 10, 20, 30, 40), Firebird Optionally Piloted Vehicle (Demonstrator, Blk 1, Blk 2), Missionized King Air, Cessna Caravan, Diamond DA-40, DASH-8, Bell 212, Scaled Composites Proteus, NASA WB-57 and others that must remain nameless !__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Payload Experience; Various FMV (FLIR Safire 380 - and older variants, L3 Wescam MX-15/20, Raytheon, Cineflex HD), Still imaging cameras (SYERS-2C, MS-177, Raytheon EISS, Optical Bar Camera) Radars (various GMTI and SAR), LIDAR Systems, ELINT, SIGINT, COMINT and CYBER.__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Communications Experience; Various Tactical UHF/VHF/L-band radios (L3/Harris, Raytheon, Collins), CDL/TCDL (Harris/L3), Ku/Ka Band SATCOM (L3/Harris, ViaSat), Iridium (various)__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Experience with High Performance Computing Systems integration and other advanced computing technologies