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Linda Gooden is Executive Vice President of Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Global Services (IS&GS) business area and an officer of Lockheed Martin Corporation. IS&GS, which employs approximately 52,000 people worldwide and generated $8.4 billion in equivalent sales for Lockheed Martin. Lockheed Martin is the largest provider of federal technology services in the world.
Under her leadership IS&GS provides its federal customers with information technology solutions, mission services, logistics services, energy and homeland security support, business process services, and global peacekeeping and nation-building services.
Ms. Gooden actively supports professional, academic, and civic organizations, serving on numerous executive boards including Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) International; Information Technology Association of America (ITAA); University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering and Robert H. Smith School of Business’ Center for Electronic Markets & Enterprises; University of Maryland, Baltimore County; and Prince George's Community College Foundation; Maryland Business Roundtable for Education; and the Executive Leadership Council.
Ms. Gooden was selected as 2006 Black Engineer of the Year by U.S Black Engineer and IT Magazine, was featured as one of Black Enterprise Magazine’s Women of Power in Business for 2006, and was named a 2006 Aiming High honoree by Legal Momentum. She was named winner of the 2002 Federal 100 Eagle Award by Federal Computer Week and received the 2002 Corporate Leadership Award by Women in Technology. She was voted one of Washington Business Journal’s Women Who Mean Business in 2004. Ms. Gooden also holds Dollars & Sense Magazine’s 1997 Salute to America’s Best and Brightest; and the Annual Peat Marwick High Tech Entrepreneur Award in 1994.
Ms. Gooden assumed her current position in January 2007. She served previously as President of Lockheed Martin Information Technology, a business unit she grew over 10 years to become a multibillion dollar business. She was Vice President of Lockheed Martin’s Software Support Services unit from 1994 and earlier held other positions of increasing responsibility within the corporation's Data Systems and Information Systems companies. Prior to joining the corporation in 1980, Ms. Gooden was employed as a software engineer for General Dynamics of San Diego in support of engineering systems.
She received her degree in Computer Technology from Youngstown State University and completed post-baccalaureate studies at San Diego State University. She also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Maryland, University College. In 2005, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Public Service degree from the University of Maryland University College in recognition of her service to the community and to higher education. | 