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John R. Wormington is vice president, Program Assessment. He assumed this position on January 1, 2004. Wormington's responsibilities include working with senior leaders of the company's customers to establish independent review processes for national security space programs, conducting reviews of major acquisition programs, and making recommendations to improve the executability of programs. He had been executive director of Program Executability before being promoted to vice president.
Wormington held senior leadership positions at Boeing Satellite Systems and Hughes Space and Communications before joining The Aerospace Corporation in 2002. His assignments in commercial space programs included leadership of the successful development of XM Satellite Radio and other commercial satellite programs, including all HS702 programs at Hughes Space and Communications.
Wormington served in the U.S. Air Force from 1966 to 1995, retiring as a brigadier general. As a leader of military space programs, his responsibilities included direction of launch and range operations at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and the Eastern Test Range at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida and leadership of the Advanced Launch System Program. He also created and led the Space Surveillance and Tracking System Program, among other achievements.
In the Pentagon at Headquarters U.S. Air Force he was planning and program officer for space defense, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans, and the space shuttle program element monitor, Deputy Chief of Staff for Research, Development and Acquisition.
Wormington has bachelor of science degrees in astronautical engineering, physics, and engineering science from the U.S. Air Force Academy, a master's degree in astronautical sciences from Stanford University, an MBA from Auburn University and a master's in aerospace operations management from the University of Southern California. | 