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Michael Tweed-Kent
Vice President and General Manager, Integrated Combat Systems
Michael Tweed-Kent is vice president and general manager for the Integrated Combat Systems division. The unit's goal is to be a leader in shipboard and mission system integration by developing, producing, engineering, and integrating highly reliable, open architecture solutions for customers. Prior to this position, Tweed-Kent was vice president and general manager for the Command and Control Systems strategic business unit from 2001 until October 2003. Under the leadership of Tweed-Kent, the unit grew to over $300 million in sales. Significant new programs included weapon system integration for the U.S. Navy SSGN program and a key system integration role on one of the three teams selected to perform a preliminary design concept of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program. Tweed-Kent was previously the vice president of programs and engineering for General Dynamics from 1998 through 2001. During this time, he was responsible for leading a high technology multi-functional organization of over 800 people. Accomplishments include the deployment of the U.S. Navy's Trident II Fire Control Modernization program, which involved the delivery of over 1.5 million software lines of code in a successful large-scale application of commercial-off-the-shelf equipment to a shipboard weapon system. As vice president of land combat programs for General Dynamics from 1997 to 1998, Tweed-Kent was responsible for the development and production of complex transmission systems for the U.S. Army's Bradley Fighting vehicle. Other previous positions include director of quality, general manager of advanced programs, technical director, and manager of hardware engineering. Tweed-Kent received his master's degree in electrical engineering from Pennsylvania State University, and a bachelor's degree in physics from Millersville State College.
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