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Keoki Jackson
The Path to Leadership
How does one become the Chief Technology Officer of a large, leading, multinational aerospace and defense R&D organization? We decided to ask one. Dana "Keoki" Jackson, CTO of Lockheed Martin, is a self-professed "space nerd" who started his career working as a NASA Research Fellow while completing his undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. From there he moved on to Lockheed Martin.
"[At Lockheed] I started as a Guidance, Navigation and Control engineer working on military space communications and navigation satellites," Jackson said, "but rapidly had the opportunity to take on a series of management roles that led to program manager positions in space-based missile warning and GPS satellites. Along the way, I kept my hand in the technology world, teaching graduate courses at Stanford, and starting a groundbreaking collaboration between Lockheed Martin and Stanford to train engineers."
At Lockheed Martin, Jackson is responsible for the corporation's advanced technology strategy and serves as a primary liaison with the US Government and international science and technology community. The biggest challenge to fulfilling his roles, he says, is the ability to "harness the incredible technology and engineering talent across our broad and diverse organization."
"As the pace of technology accelerates, we need to combine the deep domain experience of our existing team with new skills and new talent in fields ranging from data analytics and cybersecurity to advanced manufacturing, revolutionary materials, and next-generation electronics," he said. "This challenge is in reality our greatest opportunity--by combining the transformational R&D with deep mission understanding, we bring the greatest strengths from places like the Skunk Works, our space systems' Advanced Technology Center, our corporate Advanced Technology Labs, and our newly launched STELaRLab R&D Centre in Melbourne, Australia."
As one who has achieved the title of CTO at a leading, multinational organization, we asked Jackson to give advice to those striving to achieve the same one day. He said an individual's ability to grow comes from his or her desire to take on challenges and learn from them. He said three things are important: 1) "Take advantage of the incredible development opportunities around you," 2) "Take on the hardest challenges you can find," and 3) "Work with the best people you can find."
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Celebrating RTM's 60th Anniversary
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Happy 60th RTM! Volume 60, Issue 1, of RTM is now available. This is a special issue on "Innovation Management: State of the Art," with guest articles from Henry Chesbrough, Robert Cooper, Eric Von Hippel, Vernor Vinge, Don Norman, Christian Crews, Ted Farrington, and Richard Miller. It also contains the 2017 R&D Trends Forecast report, made in collaboration with
R&D Magazine
. This issue will be open to all for a limited time. Please share it with your friends and colleagues.
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IRI Me
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Praxair Starts Up Hydrogen Facility for Dow Chemical, Signs Long-Term Nitrogen Supply Agreement
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PPG Acquires Automotive Refinish Coatings Company Futian Xinshi
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Battelle's David Winkel Receives Prestigious Award for NBC Defense Research
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Headline News
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International
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Research Remix
Research Triangle Park, NC
February 22 - 24
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Spring Networks Meeting
New Orleans, LA
March 13 - 15
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Brown Bag Webinar
"Foresight and the Future of R&D"
Your Desk
March 3, Noon Eastern
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2017 Annual Meeting
"R&D Beyond Four Walls"
Boston, MA
May 8 - 11
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Shaping Innovation Leaders
Executive Management
Program
at Kellogg
Evanston, IL
May 13 - 19
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NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
April 11, 2017 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
NASA and the Technology Collaboration Center are holding an
Omics Workshop
, at the NASA Johnson Space Center covering a broad range of cross-industry Omics and Systems Biology topic areas. Omics integrates multiple biological disciplines (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, epigenomics, metabolomics and microbiomics) to focus on measurements of a diverse array of biomolecules.
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Thank You 2017 Industry Sponsors
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New, Flexible Industry Partner Program
Reach innovation decision makers at nearly 200 private sector companies and federally funded laboratories with a variety of Partner Options best suited to your needs, style, and budget. Make sure your vendors know about our new Industry Partner Program.
Contact Jennifer Kerhin, Sponsorship Boost, 301.200.4616 for complete details.
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