Norman Malnak

Prior to joining Thunderbolt Software, LLC, Mr. Malnak was the Chief Technology Officer for the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company. In this position, he was responsible for the identification, strategic roadmaps, portfolio commonality and technology adoption to drive technology and product commonality across the Aeronautics portfolio. This included responsibility and oversight of the recovery of troubled programs. He held this position from March 2019 through December 2020.

Mr. Malnak previously served as Vice President Aeronautics Chief Architect from November 2017 until March 2019. Prior to that he served as Vice President F-35 Mission Systems and Software for the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics business unit from September 2012 to December 2017. He was responsible for mission systems design requirements, avionics software, and mission systems hardware development and delivery. Overall responsibilities included design, development, system and flight test, verification, qualification and production of the F-35 avionics hardware, subsystems, software and build and integration of the product.

Prior to joining the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics team, Mr. Malnak was Vice President of Technical Operations for the Lockheed Martin MS2 business unit from November 2010 to September 2012. He was responsible for a multi-discipline engineering organization of more than 5,800 people spanning multiple locations, and had direct responsibility for providing people, process, and technology leadership in radar, command and control, weapons systems engineering, software, and hardware design and development. Through this time, he held numerous senior-leadership positions in the systems, computer systems and software engineering disciplines, where he has managed the design, development, integration and fielding of complex, large-scale military systems.

Mr. Malnak received his bachelor’s degree in computer science from Rutgers University in 1984. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and has received the Lockheed Martin NOVA leadership award in 2001, the Lockheed Martin Leadership Association Silver Knight Award in 2007 and the IEEE 2009 Engineer of the Year (Philadelphia Chapter).