Jay Jabour

Corporate Lead Executive, Dayton, Ohio
Northrop Grumman Corporation

Jay Jabour

William J. “Jay” Jabour is the corporate lead executive for Northrop Grumman in Dayton, Ohio.

In this capacity as CLE, he is responsible for providing a single face to the customer for all aspects of Northrop Grumman Corporation, as well as promoting close communications among all Northrop Grumman organizations in the area. Mr. Jabour has extensive senior-level leadership experience directing large, complex defense organizations in challenging operational, training and joint environments.

Jabour is a retired brigadier general with more than 30 years in the United States Air Force. He was vice commander, Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, where he played a key role in leading the Air Force's center of excellence for development and acquisition of systems. Prior Air Force duties included program executive officer for fighter and bomber aircraft in the Pentagon, where he managed the acquisition and sustainment of all major Air Force fighter and bomber programs. He served as system program director for both the F-22 and B-2 programs.

As a test pilot and director of the Combined Test Force, Jabour was responsible for management and testing of the F-22 Raptor air superiority fighter. Prior to becoming a test pilot, he was an aircraft commander and instructor pilot in the F-4 and T-38 aircraft for Tactical Air Command and the United States Air Force in Europe. Jabour entered military service as a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1973.

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