Don Kinard

Don Kinard is a Senior Fellow with Lockheed Martin focused on advanced manufacturing and digital transformation.  He has been with Lockheed Martin for almost 40 years working in Design, Materials, and Manufacturing for both the F-22 and F-35 programs.  Prior to Senior Fellow, Dr. Kinard was the Production Engineering director for the F-35 program responsible for aircraft tooling, planning, testing and factory support, he was later lead for the Fighter Production System, F-35 Ramp to Rate Production effort.   He was recently awarded a lifetime achievement award from the Manufacturing Leadership Council for Digital Engineering.