Mr. Porter is the President of Centennial Consulting Services, Inc., a firm that he created after retiring from Lockheed Martin in the spring of 2004 as Vice President for International Program Development and Systems Analysis. During a career at Lockheed Martin spanning almost three decades he managed the development of new technologies, advanced programs, and business development for the Department of Defense, NASA and commercial programs and endeavors. Programs he managed included the Lockheed Martin Astronautics-Radarsat International commercial Radarsat imaging partnership from 1995-1998; the Lockheed Martin successful bid on the Consolidated Space Operations Contract (CSOC), a $3.4B program awarded by the NASA Johnson Space Flight Center to Lockheed Martin's Space Operations Company in Houston, Texas.
Mr. Porter graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering degree and, M.S. degree in Industrial Management. He has also served as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force from 1972-76. |