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L3 Hires Former MDA Director O’Reilly For New Engineering Position

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, January 9th, 2018

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L3 Hires Former MDA Director O’Reilly For New Engineering Position

Patrick "Pat" O'Reilly has been hired by L3 Technologies for the new position of corporate vice president of Engineering. He joins L3 from Alphabet Energy. Photo: Alphabet Energy.

A day after adding a former Navy acquisition chief to its executive roster, L3 Technologies [LLL] on Tuesday said it has hired retired Army Lt. Gen. Patrick “Pat” O’Reilly, former director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), to a new corporate engineering role.O’Reilly will report to Paul DeLia, L3’s Chief Technology Officer, and will help L3 President and CEO Christopher Kubasik with his efforts to better integrate technical and systems solutions capabilities across the company, which was built over the…

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