Scott P. Willoughby

Scott P. Willoughby is the vice president of Program Excellence serving Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems sector, a premier provider of space and launch systems serving national security, civil and commercial customers. In this role, Willoughby is responsible for driving excellence in quality and customer satisfaction across Space Systems.
Prior to assuming this role, Willoughby served as the vice president of Operations for the company’s Strategic Space Systems division. In this role, he oversaw all aspects of production capabilities and enabling digital transformation strategies across manufacturing, integration and test, mission assurance, global supply chain, manufacturing and operations.
During this time, he also held the role of vice president and program manager for the James Webb Space Telescope overseeing all aspects of the program.
Prior to his current responsibilities, Willoughby served as the P858 program manager in the Advanced Concepts, Technology and Emerging Systems division. His primary responsibilities were to drive process improvements and delivery of this critical and strategic program. He oversaw program management including financial management, human resources, capital, customer and subcontractor interfaces at all levels of contract management.
Before his leading role on P858, Willoughby was the program manager for the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) program, where he led the team on early deliveries to Lockheed Martin for two AEHF payloads, Flight 1 and Flight 2, and positioned the program for a subsequent early delivery of Flight 3.
Additionally, Willoughby was responsible for the Milstar program which included payload support for a constellation of five operational satellites. He also served as the AEHF deputy program manager for Flight 1 payload production and delivery. Willoughby had overall responsibility and complete authority for day-to-day activities associated with completing the Flight 1 AEHF to include payload hardware and software manufacturing, production, testing, integration and delivery.
Throughout his long career, Willoughby has accumulated broad experience across many areas including systems engineering; integration, test and launch; antenna products; and project and functional management. He was the director for Integration, Test and Launch within Northrop Grumman Space Technology’s Production and Supply Chain (PSC) organization, where he focused on improving best practices across sector programs.
Early in his career, Willoughby led the PSC Production Control Directorate, developing common tools and processes for production schedule planning and execution. Moreover, Willoughby supported both commercial and milsatcom systems having directed the Astrolink Antenna Products and Integration and Test teams. He also served as the Milstar offsite manager for the

integration of the first Block II payloads and as a systems engineer on Milstar Block and the lead systems engineer on APSTAR.
Willoughby joined Northrop Grumman in 1989 as a member of the technical staff of TRW, a heritage Northrop Grumman company. He received a bachelor’s degree, summa cum laude, in electrical engineering from Lehigh University in 1989 and a master’s degree in communication systems from the University of Southern California in 1991. He is also a graduate of the UCLA Executive Program at the Anderson School of Management.
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