Bio

Corporate Vice President, Program Management Excellence

Doug Young is corporate vice president for program management excellence at Northrop Grumman, a technology company focused on global security and human discovery. In this role, Young drives excellence across the enterprise working with teams to leverage his decades of experience in program management, customer and supplier relationship management, technology innovation, and organizational and people leadership.

Most recently, Young served as sector vice president for and general manager, Strike, for Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems, leading provider of long-range strike and stealth aircraft systems for operations in the highly contested environment. In this role, Young oversaw the Strike division, including the B-21 Raider, B-2 Spirit and other restricted programs. Young also served as vice president and program manager for B-21 Raider, the world’s first sixth generation aircraft.

Young joined Northrop Grumman in 1985 as a member of the B-2 Spirit development team and, over the next 10 years, progressed through engineering, production, flight test and business development roles on the program. Young also led business development for heritage Space Systems, where he executed growth strategies in support of the division’s core programs, including the former National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System, James Webb Space Telescope, Space Tracking and Surveillance System demonstrators, Advanced Extremely High Frequency protected communications satellite payloads and restricted programs.

Young earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Connecticut and a master’s degree in systems management from the University of Southern California. He attended several executive development programs, including the executive Defense Systems Acquisition Program and the Wharton Advanced Management Program. He is also chairman emeritus of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Design Engineering Technical Committee.

Northrop Grumman is a leading global aerospace and defense technology company. Our pioneering solutions equip our customers with the capabilities they need to connect and protect the world, and push the boundaries of human exploration across the universe. Driven by a shared purpose to solve our customers’ toughest problems, our nearly 100,000 employees define possible every day.