AEROJET ROCKETDYNE
With an advanced manufacturing facility , providing the digital factory of the future , Aerospace Rocketdyne demonstrates operational excellence
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F or over 70 years , Aerojet Rocketdyne has delivered innovative solutions to aerospace and defense market customers all over the world . The company provides propulsion and energetics technologies to space , missile defence , strategic , tactical missile and armaments customers , and lives and dies by a simple mission : to build a ‘ brighter future for the next generations … who look to new frontiers and advances in global technologies ’.
As technology continues to disrupt and redefine industries and markets all over the world , such a leading company as US-based Aerojet Rocketdyne must evolve in a changing landscape . This is something Chief Technology Officer ( CTO ) Alan Avakian understands . “ Technology continues to leapfrog and the industry has changed a lot in the past decade ,” he says . “ With Aerojet Rocketdyne today , I am managing a group of outsourcing partners that provide IT services to our company . I look at strategy and technology development and then work out how we bring those technologies to the operation side of things so that we can start implementing those enhancements while adding business value to our internal customers .”
Working with customers across a market as delicate and important as the defence and aerospace industries , where information and data are key , there is one conversation surrounding technology that continues to grow even today .
“ There ’ s definitely a major focus on cybersecurity , given the number of high-level security breaches that
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