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Samuel D. Wyman III became EADS North America’s Vice President of Homeland Security Programs in October 2006, with the responsibility of further evolving EADS North America’s contribution to security and homeland defense.
He has extensive military, government and industry experience, including combat service as a U.S. Army helicopter pilot, a Senior Policy Analyst in the White House Science Office, a Deputy Office Director at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), along with corporate management assignments with General Dynamics, BEI Defense Systems and the Harris Corporation.
Prior to joining the company, Wyman was a member of The Spectrum Group, where he was involved in the consulting firm’s strategic planning and positioning, merger and acquisition support, marketing and business development and technology road mapping.
Wyman’s other industry management positions included the President of Harris Corporation’s Microwave Communications Division, Vice President of Systems for BEI Defense Systems, and Executive Director of the Defense Diamond Development Company a startup joint venture of General Dynamics and the Norton Company.
In government service, he was a Deputy Office Director in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, as well as a Special Assistant to the Director. Wyman also was a senior policy analyst in the White House Science Office, where he was involved in developing policies for telecommunications, conventional force enhancement, critical technology transfer and aeronautics.
While in the U.S. Army, Wyman flew as a combat helicopter pilot in Vietnam; served as a research officer with NASA; and was the Research and Development Coordinator, then Assistant Program Manager (International) for the Apache AH-64 attack helicopter. He also had other command and staff assignments in NATO, and with the U.S. Army in Europe and the United States. | 