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MEADS International Taps Steven Barnoske As New President

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Friday, April 10th, 2009

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The MEADS International Board of Directors announced Steven Barnoske April 1 succeeded Jim Cravens as president of the international joint venture developing the next generation of ground-mobile air and missile defense systems for the United States, Germany and Italy. Italy's MBDA, LFK in Germany and Lockheed Martin [LMT] in the United States are the participating companies in MEADS International. The 1,800 employees from these companies are completing final engineering designs for MEADS program, which is closely watched as a model…

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