Mike Heffron

Mike Heffron assumed leadership of EI&S in September 2008 when it was formed through the integration of two U.S. based operating groups - Customer Solutions and Electronics & Integrated Solutions.

The group produces a wide range of electronic systems and subsystems for military and commercial applications as well as integrated technical and professional service solutions for U.S. national security and federal markets.

In January 2007, Mike Heffron served as president of the former Electronics & Integrated Solutions operating group. Prior to that, he served as president of the Platform Solutions business for E&IS. Before taking that position in April 2006, he headed the Information Warfare business since its formation in March 2003 and before that, he was vice president of engineering for the Information & Electronic Warfare Systems unit of BAE Systems.

Mike has been a BAE Systems employee since the company purchased several aerospace and electronic companies from Lockheed Martin in 2000.

He began his defence career in 1978 as an engineer for the U.S. Air Force. In 1986, he joined Lockheed Martin's Aero Naval Systems in Baltimore, Maryland as a senior principal engineer. From 1994 to 1995, he served as associate director of programs for the Lockheed Martin Corporate Research Center at Baltimore, and then joined Sanders, a Lockheed Martin Company, as director of programs for its Signal Processing Center of Technology.

In 1997, he became the Sniper program director in Sanders' Avionics Division, and then director of program operations for the company's Mission and Space Electronics Division.

He was appointed vice president of engineering for Sanders in 1998, and continued in that role following the BAE Systems acquisition in November 2000.

He received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Detroit, and has a master's degree in electrical engineering from Syracuse University.