Blackman targets military and aerospace market

LynuxWorks has appointed Steve Blackman as Director of Business Development for the company's military and aerospace market segment.

LynuxWorks has appointed Steve Blackman as Director of Business Development for the company's military and aerospace market segment.

Blackman joins LynuxWorks with more than 25 years of embedded systems experience within the military and aerospace markets.

In his new role, he will be responsible for business development, strategic partnerships, product strategy and developing the company's overall future vision in the aerospace and defence markets.

In addition, Blackman will focus on LynuxWorks' involvement and support for both the military's Future Combat Systems programme as well as the information assurance solutions programme.

Prior to joining LynuxWorks, Blackman was the Senior Director of Business Development for Wind River's Aerospace and Defence Business Unit.

While in this role for Wind River, Blackman directed the company's entry into the integrated modular avionics market with a COTS-based development platform that supported the safety critical standards of ARINC653 and DO178B.

Blackman was also responsible for the development and market introduction of the company's secure RTOS technology.

Prior to his role at Wind River, Blackman held various sales and marketing positions at Embedded Support Tools, Applied Microsystems, Mentor Graphics, Honeywell and Data General.

Blackman holds a bachelor of science degree in applied and engineering physics from Cornell University and a master's in management from Boston University.

"I speak on behalf of myself and everyone at LynuxWorks in saying that we are honoured and eager to have Steve join our distinguished and highly regarded team", said Dr Inder Singh, CEO and Chairman of LynuxWorks.

"We are certain that he will continue the strong momentum we have underway in the military and aerospace market, and open an array of new doors for us".

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