Gigabit December 2018

AEROJET ROCKETDYNE
With an advanced manufacturing
facility, providing the digital factory of
the future, Aerospace Rocketdyne
demonstrates operational excellence
150
F
or over 70 years, Aerojet
Rocketdyne has delivered
innovative solutions to
aerospace and defense market
customers all over the world. The
company provides propulsion and
energetics technologies to space,
missile defence, strategic, tactical
missile and armaments customers,
and lives and dies by a simple
mission: to build a ‘brighter future
for the next generations… who look
to new frontiers and advances in
global technologies’.
As technology continues to
disrupt and redefine industries and
markets all over the world, such
a leading company as US-based
Aerojet Rocketdyne must evolve in
a changing landscape. This is
something Chief Technology Officer
(CTO) Alan Avakian understands.
“Technology continues to leapfrog
and the industry has changed a lot
in the past decade,” he says. “With
Aerojet Rocketdyne today, I am
managing a group of outsourcing
partners that provide IT services to
our company. I look at strategy and
technology development and then
work out how we bring those
technologies to the operation side
of things so that we can start
implementing those enhancements
while adding business value to our
internal customers.”
Working with customers across
a market as delicate and important
as the defence and aerospace
industries, where information and
data are key, there is one conversation
surrounding technology that
continues to grow even today.
“There’s definitely a major focus
on cybersecurity, given the number
of high-level security breaches that
DECEMBER 2018