Carole Rickard Hedden retired in 2022 as Executive Editor for custom content and Program Excellence for the Aviation Week Network, providing custom content and research to industry executives. She also was Managing Editor of Aviation Week’s Advanced Air Mobility Report. She joined Aviation Week in 1996 as a financial/business editor and has led special projects for more than two decades.
Prior to joining Aviation Week, Hedden worked for over 20 years in the news media and as a corporate communications leader at Fortune 100 companies.
Mitre and United Launch Alliance (ULA) are very different companies, but they share one important attribute. Both are providing the workplace challenges, flexibility, diversity and career opportunities that aerospace and defense employees say are most important when looking at career options.
They still have a hard time competing for talent with Silicon Valley and its legendary minting of millionaires before they turn 30, but aerospace and defense (A&D) companies are holding their own when it comes to compensating their technical talent.
An unprecedented storm is descending on the aerospace and defense (A&D) industry. A severe economic downturn has choked demand and financing for new aircraft, while military spending is leveling off and will likely decline under the Obama administration.
