{"418241":{"#nid":"418241","#data":{"type":"news","title":"AE Alumnus Christopher Jones Elected to Key Leadership Position at Northrop Grumman","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Northrop Grumman board of directors recently elected Christopher T. Jones, AE 1986, to serve as corporate vice president and president of the Technical Services sector.\u0026nbsp; He currently is vice president and general manager of the Integrated Logistics and Modernization division within Technical Services.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJones earned a bachelor\u0027s degree in aerospace engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, a master\u0027s degree in aerospace engineering and engineering mangement from the University of Dayton, and a doctorate in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland.\u0026nbsp; Additionally, he was commissioned in the U.S. Air Force in 1986 and is currently a lieutenant colonel in the Connecticut Air National Guard.\u0026nbsp; He recently won the Career Achievement in Industry Award for his distinguished career in the field of engineering at the 2012 Black Engineer of the Year Conference.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Northrop Grumman board of directors recently elected Christopher T. Jones, AE 1986, to serve as corporate vice president and president of the Technical Services sector."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-06-24 13:07:27","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:49","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-08-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-08-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"130101","name":"Christopher T. Jones"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["communications@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}