WASHINGTON: Indian-American Vivek Lall is the latest to be named in a position in the American administration. The 49 year old vice president at Lockheed Martin will represent the viewpoints of defence technology organisations in the NextGen Advisory Committee of the Department of Transportation. The committee advises the government on topics including, but not limited to, NextGen investment priorities, capability deployment timing, equipage incentives, specific technologies, and deployments such as DataComm, National Airspace System performance metrics, and airspace design initiatives.
A globally renowned aerospace scientist, Lall has been appointed for a two-year term on the committee that provides guidance on wide-ranging topics affecting the US and the global aviation community. He was the top official at Boeing and General Atomics in the past and successfully led over $12 billion of US-India trade.
