Aerospace Industries Association
JP Stevens
Vice President, Space Systems
Aerospace Industries Association
J.P. Stevens, Vice President, Space Systems, oversees all space policy for AIA, including national security space, commercial space, and civil space. He also serves as co-chair of AIA’s Space Council with his corporate counterpart.
Before assuming his present position in January 2005, Stevens served in a number of leadership roles in AIA, including director of Space Operations, assistant vice president of Supplier Management, and vice president of Special Projects. He also created and served as executive director of the world’s largest rocket contest, the Team America Rocketry Challenge, an important event to attract middle and high school students to aerospace careers.
From 1994 to 1999, he was a congressional advisor to former U.S. Senator John Glenn on defense, military space, and domestic issues. Prior to that, Stevens was a career officer in the United States Marine Corps, where he served in numerous aviation and acquisition positions, including as a Naval Flight Officer in operational A-6E squadrons, the Program Manager for Night Attack and Reconnaissance Systems in the F/A-18 Program Office, and Requirements Officer for all Marine fixed-wing ordnance.
Stevens is a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles, the Marine Corps' Command and Staff College, and the Defense Systems Management College.
Founded in 1919, the Aerospace Industries Association represents the nation’s leading manufacturers and suppliers of civil, military, and business aircraft, helicopters, unmanned aerial systems, space systems, aircraft engines, materiel, and related components, equipment services, and information technology.
