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AIA Announces New Assistant Vice President Of Technical Operations WASHINGTON, D.C., January 27- - David Johnson, Director of Engineering Management at the Aerospace Industries Association has been appointed Assistant Vice President of Technical Operations at AIA. AIA President and CEO John W. Douglass said, "David Johnson is a bright, high energy, take charge engineer with a successful track record. I'm delighted to have him assume a critical leadership position here at AIA." Prior to joining AIA, Johnson worked as a research assistant for the University Professor of International Affairs at The George Washington University, for the Policy Division and the Office of International Affairs (Japan) of the National Research Council (NRC), the staff arm of the National Academies in Washington, D.C. He worked as a consulting research analyst in Industrial and Manufacturing Systems for TASC, Inc. (now a division of Northrop Grumman), in Arlington, Virginia, where he developed the prototype of the TechScape (tm) technology assessment tool. He was also a visiting researcher in the Broadband Network Systems Laboratory of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) Communication Switching Laboratories in Mushashino, Japan. Johnson worked as a Spacelab payload integration design engineer on the first Space Shuttle mission (Atlantis STS-71) to the Russian space station Mir, an extra-vehicular activity systems (EVAS) design and project engineer on the International Space Station, a structural design engineer on the YF-22 Raptor stealth fighter prototype, and a liaison engineer on the F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter. Johnson holds a Masters of Philosophy in Political Science and an M.A. in Science, Technology and Public Policy from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. P.A. Rel 2003-02 01.27.03 -AIA- Contact: Matt Grimison, AIA |
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