Date posted: 02/26/2010*

William F. Kiczuk has been appointed Raytheon chief technology officer and vice president, reporting to Mark E. Russell, the company’s vice president of Engineering, Technology and Mission Assurance.

In this role, Kiczuk is responsible for developing and executing an integrated technology and research strategy for the company. He chairs the company’s technology leadership team, which oversees Raytheon’s collective research collaboration and technology opportunities. He also represents the company on outside councils regarding technology and the defense industry.

“Bill leads with a deep understanding of our technologies from complex systems to components,” said Russell. “As CTO, he’ll leverage this broad domain knowledge to align Raytheon’s world-class people and technology as we continue to meet our customers’ most pressing needs.”

Kiczuk is a Raytheon senior principal engineering fellow with nearly 30 years’ experience with the company. He joined the corporate team from Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems where he was technical director and director, Strategic Architectures, from 2003-2010.

Prior to that, Kiczuk held technical leadership positions at Raytheon Network Centric Systems where he was director of technology development efforts for the Future Combat Systems program and served as technical director of the Integrated Land Combat System department.