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Larry Harrell retired as a Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems Vice President assigned to support the recent acquisition of Scaled Composites acting as an advisor to the President of Scaled Composites. Larry’s unique abilities to cultivate start-up businesses are being utilized in the formation of The Spaceship Company (TSC), a joint venture LLC with Virgin Holdings Group. Merging the innovative, rapid prototyping capabilities of Scaled with the process driven requirements for TSC to build a spaceship system manufacturing business is the challenge. He was the Managing Director and CEO of AGS Industries GmbH, a joint venture company that represented the interest of the six shareholder companies and the Industrial Participation interests of the other NATO countries. He was responsible for managing the prime contract for the NATO AGS Program. As the prime contractor, he led the JV in preparing the AGS-I proposal, negotiations, and issuing contracts to the six core industries and the main sensor provider (Transatlantic Cooperative Advanced Radar). Prior to this assignment, Larry was Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Technology in charge of Integrated Systems and Platforms with responsibilities for coordination among Northrop Grumman’s Newport News, Ship Systems, and Integrated Systems sectors. His responsibilities included Sector business strategy, front-end merger, acquisition and divestiture, and optimizing technology investments in connection with developing the company’s strategic framework.

With 34 years of professional experience in the defense industry, including 26 years with Northrop Grumman Corporation, Larry has expertise in test and evaluation, research and development, project management, manufacturing operations, program management, business management, and business development. He has worked as an engineering manager on the B-2 Program, and was the air vehicle manager on the first aircraft delivered to the U.S. Air Force and the manager on the first B-2 upgrade program as part of the spiral development program.