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Ann W. Stevens

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  • M.A., Organizational Management, The George Washington University
  • B.S.., Aerospace Engineering, Virginia Tech
Ann W. Stevens

As the Senior Director of Maritime Undersea, Ann W. Stevens leads a profit-and-loss business within the Autonomous Systems Division of Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS). Maritime Undersea provides platforms and end-to-end mission solutions for the collection or delivery of information in support of national defense objectives. She oversees a team of 450 engineers and program managers collaborating across the United States, with roughly half in the Washington, D.C., area and half in Huntington Beach, California.

  • (June 2019 - Present) Senior Director, Maritime Undersea, Autonomous Systems Division of Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS).                    
  • (April 2018 - June 2019) Senior Portfolio Manager, Advanced Mission Solutions, Autonomous Systems Division, Boeing
  • (September 2015–April 2018) Senior Program Manager, Government Satellite Systems Division, Boeing
  • (March 2011–September 2015) Project Leader, Strategic Planning and Growth, Satellite Operations & Ground Systems (SOGS), Boeing
  • (September 2011–September 2015) RQM/SR Initiative Requirements Rapid Response Team, Core Engineering, Boeing Defense, Space & Security
  • (August 2012 - May 2014) Operations and Maintenance Center (OMC) Program Manager, Iridium Ground System, Satellite Operations & Ground Systems (SOGS), Boeing
  • (October 2010 - March 2011) Lead Systems Engineer and Deputy Program Manager, Iridium NEXT Application Software Program, Boeing
  • (October 2007 - October 2010) Signal in Space Integrated Product Team Lead, iGPS Program, Boeing
  • (March 2007 - October 2007) Systems Engineer, iGPS Program, Boeing, 
  • (November 2004–March 2007) Real-Time System Operations Lead, 
  • Iridium Operations and Maintenance, Boeing
  • (April 2003–November 2004) Real-Time Operations Support Engineer, Iridium Operations and Maintenance, Boeing 
  • (August 2002–April 2003) Flight Operations Specialist, Operations and Maintenance, Boeing