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Mr. Bowes is a retired Vice Admiral and an experienced industry executive. As Vice Admiral, he served as Commander of the Naval Air Systems Command, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition (RDA), and Acting Assistant Secretary of the Navy for RDA. In 1996, following his retirement from active duty, Mr. Bowes joined Hughes Electronics as corporate vice president and deputy general manager of Hughes Aircraft Company’s Sensors and Communications Systems Segment. Shortly after Raytheon acquired Hughes, he joined Litton Industries where he held positions as vice president for Corporate Strategic Planning and vice president of Programs Management at Litton’s Integrated Systems Division. After Northrop Grumman acquired Litton, Mr. Bowes was assigned to lead one of three business units in the newly created Navigation Systems Division of Northrop. Mr. Bowes is a highly experienced program manager and during his career he managed the F-14 Aircraft, Phoenix Missile, Tomahawk Cruise Missile, and GE F-110 Engine, Infrared Search and Track Systems programs. As a corporate executive in the aerospace industry, he has been involved with the development and manufacture of numerous avionics and software systems. Mr. Bowes holds a Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Idaho and a Masters degree in Systems Acquisition Management from the Naval Postgraduate School. He has completed financial management, corporate planning and director courses at Harvard, Wharton, the University of Chicago, and the Anderson School of Business at the University of California, Los Angeles. Mr. Bowes currently serves on the board of directors of Innovative Solutions and Support, the board of visitors for the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, and is a Fellow for the Society of Experimental Test Pilots. | 