Primary Job Title Vice President Contracts and Supply Chain Primary Organization Raytheon
Gender Male
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David Wilkins
is vice president of Contracts and Supply
Chain for Raytheon Company
(NYSE: RTN)
. He was
named to the position in March 2010. He is a member
of Raytheon’s senior leadership team and participates in
the operational management and strategic planning of
the company.
Raytheon Company, with 2012 sales of $24
billion and 68,000
employees worldwide, is a technology
and innovation leader specializing in defense, security and
civil markets throughout the world. Raytheon’s global
headquarters is in Waltham, Mass.
Wilkins is responsible for maintaining an effective
risk review process, providing corporate-wide policy,
direction, training and oversight of contracts, supply
chain, and export/import matters and ensuring that
all Raytheon businesses meet acceptable performance
standards in these areas. He serves as a principle interface
with key government regulators regarding all contract,
supply chain, and export/import matters, government
regulatory policy and oversight. He also develops and
implements companywide supply chain strategies and key
processes. He is responsible for enterprise socio-economic
business planning, strategy and compliance relative to our
supply chain.
Prior to his corporate leadership role, Wilkins was vice
president, Contracts, for Raytheon Network Centric
Systems based in McKinney, Texas, after joining the
company in January 2002.
Before joining Raytheon, Wilkins served in a number of
positions with increasing responsibility in the aerospace
and defense industry, including as a business unit
vice president of Contracts at Northrop Grumman
Corporation, College Park, Md., a business unit vice
president of Contracts, Supply Chain, and Pricing at the
Litton Corporation, as well as a director of Supply Chain
Management at Hughes Space and Communications. He
has also served as a contracting officer and acquisition
analyst at the DoD Space and Missile Systems Center
in Los Angeles, Calif., and in the Air Force’s Contract
Management Division in Anaheim, Calif.
Wilkins is a member of the Maryland Bar and the
American Bar Association. He is also a Certified
Professional Contract Manager (CPCM) through the
National Contract Management Association.
He received his bachelor’s degree in economics and
financial management in 1984, and his M.B.A. in 1985,
from the University of New Mexico (E). He earned his
law degree from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.
