Charles E.. Toups
Vice President
Engineering & Mission Assurance
Integrated Defense Systems
Charles Toups is vice president of Engineering and Mission Assurance for Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, a $32 billion business unit with 70,000 employees worldwide that combines weapons and aircraft capabilities, intelligence and surveillance systems, communications architectures and extensive large-scale integration.
Toups is responsible for ensuring world-class technical integrity for all IDS products and services. He leads a 30,000-person international engineering organization that includes teams across the three IDS businesses -- Boeing Military Aircraft, Network and Space Systems, and Global Services & Support -- as well as a Tanker Programs unit and an advanced technology development organization known as Phantom Works. In addition, Toups heads a companywide effort to improve quality and productivity, called Lean+ 10X, that is part of Boeing's Lean+ approach to continuous improvement.
Toups joined the company in 1982 and has held a number of senior engineering and management positions throughout his distinguished career.
Most recently, Toups served as vice president of Navigation & Communication Systems for Boeing's Space and Intelligence Systems (S&IS) division, which included programs such as the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) system, Transformational SATCOM Space Segment (TSAT), GPS IIF satellite system, Modular Communications Program (MCP), Systems Technology Laboratories (STL) and Boeing's work on the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS).
Prior to that, Toups managed Boeing's facility in El Segundo, Calif., the location of its Satellite Development Center, the world's largest satellite factory. There, he was responsible for the development and deployment of the S&IS engineering work force and for improving and standardizing engineering processes and tools.
In other assignments, Toups served as vice president of Engineering and Operations at Boeing Satellite Systems and as its vice president of programs. He headed the procurement, development and production phases of the Modular Communications Program, which was honored with both the Department of Defense David Packard Excellence in Acquisition Award and the National Reconnaissance Office Gold Medal of Distinguished Performance.
Toups also was general manager of the Electron Dynamic Devices subsidiary and drove its successful performance as the industry's leading supplier of high-power amplifiers for space, military and terrestrial applications as well as power electronics, electric propulsion and passive microwave devices for space systems. In addition, he directed the groundbreaking Spaceway program and led the critical early development of the space segment of this global broadband satellite network project.
Toups earned a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from University of California at Irvine in 1980 and a Master of Science degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982. He completed a Sloan Fellowship at Stanford University Graduate School of Business and earned a Master of Science in Management degree in 1997.