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Linda A. Mills is corporate vice president of Operations for Northrop Grumman. Mills is responsible for driving effective operations to enable top performance, innovation and affordability. This includes direct responsibility for corporate programs, quality, technology and engineering and the associated corporate councils. She is a member of the company’s Corporate Policy Council.

During her Northrop Grumman career, Mills has held numerous positions of increasing scope and responsibility. Most recently, she was corporate vice president and president of Northrop Grumman’s Information Systems sector, a leading global provider of advanced solutions for defense, intelligence, civil agency and commercial customers.

Earlier, Mills was with the company’s former Information Technology sector, where she served as vice president for Operations and Processes, president of the sector’s Civilian Agencies business group, and corporate vice president and president of the sector.

Mills was honored as one of Profiles in Diversity Journal’s “Women Worth Watching in 2007.” In 2009, she was listed as one of “Washington’s Top 100 Tech Titans” by the Washingtonian Magazine. In 2010, Mills received the Alumni Award for Distinguished Service from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s College of Engineering for outstanding leadership and management. In 2012, she received the Federal 100 Award from Federal Computer Week, recognizing government and industry leaders who have played pivotal roles in the federal government IT community, and was named one of the top 100 Women Leaders in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by STEMconnectorTM, as well as the sixth most powerful woman in aerospace by Fortune magazine.

Mills serves on the boards of the Air Force Association, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, and the Northern Virginia Technology Council, as well as the board of visitors for the University of Illinois College of Engineering.

Mills earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Santa Clara and a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Illinois.

Northrop Grumman is a leading global security company providing innovative systems, products and solutions in unmanned systems, cyber, C4ISR, and logistics and modernization to government and commercial customers worldwide.