Jeff Morris

Jeff Morris started with Lockheed Martin in 1980 as a Radar technician. He was noted for his troubleshooting skills and soon was indoctrinated into the Systems Engineering organization as a requirements, analytics and design engineer in support of ever-increasingly complex systems.

From 1982 through 1990 Jeff was assigned development of the first operational over-the-horizon high frequency radar system being built for the US Air Force.

From there he became the software technical lead for the US Navy’s Seawolf fast attack submarine combat system including 5.7 million source lines of code (SLOC) representative of the most complex, software-oriented program undertaken by the Navy.

In 1993 he was assigned Chief Architect for development of a satellite ground system for the US intelligence agencies responsible for scheduling, communications and ground processing of real time, mission critical operations.

In 1997 Jeff was assigned the Jindalee Operational Radar Program (JORN) in Australia for the Defense Material Organization (DMO) as the development leader. He was instrumental in leading the program to a successful completion in terms of cost, schedule, technical and operational effectiveness.

Upon returning to the US from Australia Jeff was assigned Director of Systems Engineering for the Lockheed Martin corporate Radar Systems business and was handed a complex set of international programs as the engineering management lead. He was successful in impacting positive program execution and as a result was selected as the Director of Programs for the Information Systems & Global Solutions (IS&GS) business area.

Jeff was promoted to Vice President of Engineering, IS&GS in 2007 and led a team of over 5,000 engineers world wide in the development, execution and maintenance of complex, embedded, mission-critical platforms for US and foreign military and intelligence organizations. His team was noted for several, high-profile, successful US and foreign government missions.

In 2011 the Lockheed Martin Chief Operating Officer (COO) and the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) assigned Jeff as the Vice President, F-35 Mission Systems Software for the high priority F-35 fighter jet program following the Nunn-McCurdy breach. Jeff led a successful turn-around of the systems and software development efforts resulting in highly positive reaction from senior Lockheed Martin, Allied and US Government leaders.

In 2014 Jeff was assigned Vice President of IS&GS programs representative of nearly 600 contract-unique programs spanning US and international customers, from design, development, operational and maintenance aspects.

He retired from Lockheed Martin in 2015 after 35 years of successful engineering, program management and customer-focused leadership.

Jeff earned an AS in Electronics Technology from Eastern Maine Technical College, a BS in Industrial Technology from the University of Maine and worked on his MS in Software Engineering from the State University of Pennsylvania.