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Bill Clark: Vice President of Emerging Programs
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BSME (UC San Diego)
EPM Course (Defense Acquisition University)
 
Mr. Clark has over 25 years of experience in the aerospace industry, managing unmanned systems. He 
started his career at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works involved in the design and development of multiple 
classified efforts. His design expertise and passion was in the configuration design of low observable 
vehicles. He was the chief designer for the Darkstar Program, for which he was recognized with the 
Lockheed Martin Gold Skunk Award for Achievement and Excellence. During his career, he had the 
opportunity to work on a wide variety of programs (F-117A, YF-22, SR-71, U-2, Sea Shadow, X-33, 
VentureStar, and other classified programs).  
 
In 2002, Mr. Clark joined the Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems as program director of the Advanced
Technology Development Center. There he managed a multi-billion dollar portfolio of advanced ISR 
systems. In 2006 he was promoted to vice president of special programs. He was recognized with the 
Northrop Grumman Chairman's Award for his key contributions in technology and program management.   
He joined Insitu in late 2008 as vice president of emerging programs. In this role, he is responsible for the 
Integrator program development, advanced system development, oversight of the Canadian SUAS (Small 
Unmanned Aircraft System) program and direct management of the pending competition for the small 
tactical unmanned air system (STUAS) for the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps. Bill graduated from 
University of California, San Diego with a BS in Mechanical Engineering. He is also a graduate of the 
Executive Program Management course at the Defense Acquisition University. He has received three 
patents for his work in advanced systems design.
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