Dr. LynnDee Ford is associate director and systems engineering discipline lead at Raytheon Intelligence & Space, a business of Raytheon Technologies. Over a 27-year career, she has demonstrated strategic visionary leadership, orchestrating and empowering teams leveraging transdisciplinary engineering to solve high-consequence problems. In her current role, Ford is responsible for ensuring systems engineering excellence across RI&S, focusing on execution to produce the most capable technologies at an affordable cost and faster time to market for the most advanced defense and information systems in the world. Ford has held numerous challenging technical leadership roles in systems engineering across diverse businesses, namely Secure Sensor Systems, Electronic Warfare Systems and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Systems. 

She led the special mission aircraft command, control, communications, computers (C4) for ISR architecture and mission system software, system of systems (SoS) for international pursuits. Her experiences span all phases of the product lifecycle, from early research, development, and pursuits through production and sustainment. Ford received P.H.D. in Transdisciplinary Design, Process, and Systems Engineering from Texas Tech University. Ford earned a master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a dual bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and Biology from Purdue University. She is an active member of the International Council on Systems Engineering.