Heritage

Founders

Don Roberts - As Lockheed Martin Fellow for Airworthiness and Airworthiness Certification, Don brings over 33 years of expertise in Design, Manufacturing, Quality Assurance, and Airworthiness Engineering gained working numerous civil and military programs at both Boeing and Lockheed Martin. His outside interests include serving on the Baylor University School of Engineering and Computer Science Board of Advocates. Don currently serves as consultant to Aeronautics Site Leads and Program Airworthiness Leads to standardize all Lockheed Martin Aeronautics programs.

Denna Mason is an Airworthiness Certification Specialist for Lockheed Martin. In this role, she is responsible for the development and implementation of airworthiness improvement activities to ensure the necessary professionals, processes, procedures, tools and independent oversight are integrated across all Lockheed Martin Programs.

Previously, Mrs. Mason was the Airworthiness Lead for the F-22, C-5, and P-3 Programs. She was responsible for establishing an airworthiness certification process and leading the airworthiness strategy, planning, reportability assessments, certification development, risk determination, compliance documentation and approval process support. She was also responsible for the integration of Airworthiness into the System Engineering processes.

Mrs. Mason has served in roles of increasing responsibilities at Lockheed Martin. Mrs. Mason began her career in 2001 at Lockheed Martin as a Procurement Quality Engineer responsible for the oversight of avionics, structural, propulsion, and subsystem commodities to ensure supplier conformance to industry quality standards by validating supplier corrective actions, performing surveillance of manufacturing processes, and conducting process evaluations/audits of the engineering and manufacturing operations to ensure compliance to process documentation. She subsequently worked as a Flight and System Safety Engineer for the F-22 Program. As a System Safety Engineer, Mrs. Mason was responsible for the areas of functional hazard development and system safety assessment development.

Mrs. Mason is an alumnus of the Operations Leadership Development Program (OLDP). As an OLDP participant, she performed tasks and assignments emphasizing development of technical and strategic leadership and interpersonal skills in a structured framework within the operations disciplines.

Mrs. Mason is a graduate of Embry Riddle Aeronautical University with a Master of Science Degree in Aeronautical Science and a Bachelor of Science in Management of Technical Operations. Mrs. Mason is also a member of the International System Safety Society (ISSS), International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), and the Society of Women Engineers (SWE). Mrs. Mason serves as the Treasurer of the North Texas Chapter of INCOSE.

Mrs. Mason is an INCOSE Certified Systems Engineering Professional and a FAA Airframe and Powerplant licensed mechanic.

Mike Fox - Over thirty-five years in the aircraft design, test, and certification field. Mr. Fox has focused on military aircraft while at General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin and advanced aircraft concepts while at NASA Langley Research Center. He has been an integral team member in numerous aircraft programs from the design through test flight phases. He led the origination of the F-35 Airworthiness Certification approach and process through the joint industry, government, and customer forum, which has resulted in providing U.S. and international customers with an airworthy aircraft for fleet operations.