Space Vector Corporation
Chris Yamada serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Space Vector Corporation since April 2019. Prior to this role, Yamada held various positions at Northrop Grumman from 2005 to March 2019, including Vice President and General Manager, as well as General Manager of Strategic Business Units. Earlier experience includes serving as Director of Affiliates and Strategic Business Planning at TRW Space & Tech from 2003 to 2005, and as President of TRW Astro Aerospace from 2000 to 2003. Yamada's career began at TRW Defense & Space Systems Group, where multiple roles were held from 1983 to 1997, including Program Manager. Additional experience includes serving as Vice President and General Manager at PSI Group from 1997 to 2000.
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Space Vector Corporation
Space Vector is a small business dedicated to providing high reliability components, systems, and launch vehicle solutions to the aerospace industry. As a prime contractor to various government agencies, Space Vector has launched 37 rockets over the past 40 years in support of scientific and defense related projects with an enviable 94% success rate. Many of our vehicles are boosted by refurbished Minuteman motors that have proven to be very reliable and cost effective. We are a key subcontractor to Lockheed Martin and provide a variety of products and services under the Targets and Countermeasures Prime Contract. These include GPS metric tracking units, rechargeable flight safety and system batteries, and reentry vehicle adapter structures and separation systems. We also provide flight and ground software as well as guidance and control expertise to Lockheed Martin. Space Vector is supplying the United Launch Alliance (ULA) with GPS Tracking Units and Low Noise Amplifiers for the Atlas V and Delta IV launch vehicles. These critical components are part of the Air Force Space Command vision for Launch and Range Enterprise Transformation for metric tracking and eventually fully autonomous flight safety. Our post boost attitude control systems have flown on hundreds of NASA sounding rockets. These subsystems integrate our fully adjustable cold gas pneumatic components with a variety of sensors and controllers.