Orlando P. Carvalho

Orlando P. Carvalho is a retired corporate officer of the Lockheed Martin Corporation and retired executive vice president of its aeronautics business area, a 24,000-employee enterprise generating over $20 Billion dollars in annual revenue.

In his 38 years with Lockheed Martin, Carvalho has held several integral leadership positions, including executive vice president and general manager of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter program. In this role, he led the system development and demonstration program, aircraft production, flight testing and global sustainment of the three F-35 variants for the United States, eight partner countries and three foreign military sales customers.

Previously, he served as vice president and deputy for the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter program; President of Lockheed Martin Mission Systems & Sensors; and general manager and vice president of surface-sea based ballistic missile defense systems. Carvalho is credited with securing and managing the Spanish Navy’s F-100 Combat System program – Lockheed Martin’s first significant entry into the European naval combat system market.

Carvalho presently serves as an elected independent director on the Board of Mercury Systems, a leading technology company serving the aerospace and defense industry. He also serves as chair of the board of advisors to the dean for the University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business. He is an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and was named executive of the year by the National Management Association in 2015.

Carvalho holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Maryland at College Park, and a Bachelor of Science in mathematics from Fairfield University in Connecticut.