David F. Berganini, Jr.

David F. Berganini is President of MEADS International, a multinational joint venture to develop the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS). He is responsible for a $3.6-billion trinational development contract to develop the next-generation air and missile defense system, and for the work of 1,800 personnel at five Lockheed Martin business units and two MBDA business units in Europe. Within Missiles and Fire Control he is the MEADS Program Director, reporting to the Vice President of Air and Missile Defense Systems. He has 25 years of systems-engineering and program-management experience.

In 2007 Mr. Berganini was named Chief Engineer for MEADS International. In this role he was responsible for Mission Success across all facets of the system/subsystem technical design and was the architect for the incremental Critical Design Review (CDR) that led to trinational approval of the MEADS design in August 2010. He also led the industry team working with NAMEADSMA to implement a low-risk optimized program for integration and test of the advanced air and missile defense system.

Previously at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control (MFC), Mr. Berganini was Director of Systems Engineering, responsible for technical and personnel leadership and oversight of the Systems Engineering Department. From 2000 to 2003, he was the line of business Technical Director responsible for technical execution of all MFC Fire Control programs including Joint Strike Fighter Electro-Optical Targeting System, Advanced Targeting Pod, Platform Survivability, Tracer, Hawkeye, Apache EO, and Longbow Fire Control Radar as well as development and execution of the mission area technology roadmaps and oversight of IRAD efforts. From 1996 to 1999, he held Technical Director positions for the Shipboard Infrared Search and Track (IRST) program and the Hawkeye Fire Control System program. As Technical Manager of the F-14 IRST program, he transitioned the technical team, product improvement development effort, and production line from New York to Florida when the program was acquired by MFC.

Mr. Berganini received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering (1987) from the University of South Florida and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering (1990) from Syracuse University.