Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. announced July 31 that it has divided its defense operations organization unit into two separate business units to provide enhanced customer focus and to position the company for future opportunities. Ball Aerospace has leveraged its core technologies and capabilities into unprecedented business growth in all market segments over the past five years.
To refine the company's structure and further drive that success, two new business units have been established:
- National Defense Solutions is a new business unit led by Fred Doyle, formerly vice president, special programs. This organization combines the company's space hardware capabilities and systems engineering expertise to provide focused solutions for nationally significant intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and space superiority missions.
- The Advanced Technologies & Products business unit led by Drew Crouch, formerly vice president, corporate strategy, relations and administration, focuses the company's core technology and product capabilities into one organization serving civil, commercial and national security program needs.
Ball Aerospace is an industry leader in laser applications, satellite navigation, cryogenics, thermal management, acquisition, pointing and tracking, conformal antennas and communication subsystems for space, air, sea and ground platforms.
"Over the past 50 years, Ball Aerospace has enabled many of the nation's most technically challenging missions and dramatic scientific discoveries," said David L. Taylor, president and CEO. "In fact, our sales have nearly doubled in five years. This announcement demonstrates the additional commitment we are devoting to programs of national importance."
Fred Doyle joined Ball Aerospace in 2005 as vice president of special programs. He continues to oversee these programs. Prior to joining Ball Aerospace, Doyle held various executive-level positions at Space Imaging and spent 20 years in government service with the Defense Mapping Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). He holds a master's degree in photogrammetry from
Drew Crouch has held a number of executive, managerial and technical positions at Ball Aerospace during his 13-year tenure with the company. He led strategic development and corporate relations and supported key operational and financial performance activities during the company's recent five-year period of unprecedented growth. In addition to his experience at Ball Aerospace, Crouch served in executive leadership positions in several venture-funded development stage technology companies and a privately funded venture finance firm. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from
