Claudia Mowery

Claudia Mowery 
'16 Executive Perspective for Scientists and Engineers Program (EPSE),
UC San Diego
'04 Systems Engineering Certificate, Caltech
'01 B.S. Mechanical Engineering, San Diego State University
Chief Operations Officer
Redwood Strong

Biography

Claudia Mowery is Chief Operations Officer for Redwood Strong. She brings 20+ years of experience in the unmanned systems side of the Defense Industry. She most recently led the Group 5 effort for Anduril as Program Director, and prior to that she was Vice President of USAF programs at General Atomics Aeronautical System, responsible for managing all MQ-9A Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC), Air National Guard (ANG), and USAF Domestic and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) programs.

While at GA-ASI, Claudia has held several positions including: Program Director of USAF Block 50 Ground Control Station responsible for managing development and test.

Technical Director / Chief Engineer of the Block 50 GCS. Claudia was responsible for successful technical design reviews: Preliminary Design Review (Apr 2016) and Critical Design Review (May 2017) as well as Contractor Testing and First flight of the Block 50 GCS (2019).

Integration Manager for the Army’s flagship MQ-1C Gray Eagle program ($100M Acquisition Category ACAT-1D). Claudia was directly responsible for the integration and testing of the system in preparation for an Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E) and a Follow-on Test and Evaluation (FOT&E). Both of these milestone test events were successfully executed in 2012 and 2015 respectively and resulted in Full Rate Producfion (FRP) for the program.

Prior to 2007, Claudia worked at Northrop Grumman where she held various positions as an Engineer: Mass Properties Engineer, Mechanical Subsystems Engineer (fuel, bleed-air, hydraulic), Environmental Control Systems Engineer, and Guidance Navigation and Controls Engineer on the RQ-4A and RQ-4B Global Hawk program for 5 years.

Ms. Mowery earned her Mechanical Engineering degree from San Diego State University with the distinguished honor of “Summa Cum Laude” and Valedictorian of the College of Engineering (2001). She also holds a Systems Engineering Certificate from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena (2004) and is a graduate from the University of California San Diego’s Executive Perspective for Scientists and Engineers Program (2016).

Claudia was recently honored by AIAA for Outstanding Contribution to Aerospace Engineering (2019) and San Diego Magazine’s Rising Star (2018).