Richard Raiford

Retired
Northrop Grumman

 

 

 

 

 

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Richard Raiford recently retired after a 39-year career with Northrop Grumman. His job assignments encompassed positions of increasing responsibility within projects/programs, management and senior leadership. These include aeronautical engineering R&D, computational fluid dynamics design and analysis, project engineering, wind tunnel and flight testing, program management, strategic planning, weapon systems logistics, mergers and acquisitions, and risk management. He received a Bachelor of Science from Purdue in aeronautical and astronautical engineering and a master's from the University of Southern California in Aerospace Engineering. He is an AIAA Associate Fellow and received an Outstanding Aerospace Engineer award from AAE in 2018.