Doug Belair

Doug leads the development of strategies and initiatives to promote growth for the U.S.-based sectors and across elements of the global company, through organic investments, acquisitions, and the pursuit of international business opportunities.

Douglas E. (Doug) Belair is the Senior Vice President of Strategy and Planning for BAE Systems, Inc., where he leads the development of strategies and initiatives to promote growth for the U.S.-based sectors and across elements of the global company through organic investments, acquisitions, as well as the pursuit of international business opportunities.   This role combines strategic planning and business development implementation functions to ensure direct insight and access across a range of portfolio actions, including internal investments, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, and international development opportunities to enable the organization to protect its core business and pursue international growth.

Belair began his career in 1979 with General Electric Defense Systems as a software engineer.  He received his MBA from the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University in 1987 and in 1993, when GE sold the Defense Systems Division to Lockheed Martin, Belair accepted a program management position with the new company.  In this role, he developed an incremental modernization approach to upgrade a major weapon system over a ten-year period. As a result of his work, Belair received the inaugural Lockheed Martin Corporate Nova Award for Strategic Excellence. 

In 1997, Lockheed Martin named Belair Technical Director and assigned him the responsibility for transforming military technologies into applications for the commercial marketplace.  Over a two-year period, he successfully introduced liquid propellant technology into the automotive airbag industry and transferred computer-based diagnostics developed for the U.S. Navy into an automotive maintenance system for Chrysler Corporation.

In early 1999, Belair joined General Dynamics and accepted the challenge to build on his previous commercial successes at Chrysler. In June 2000, he directed a number of acquisitions and was named General Manager of TechSight, a commercial business unit selling electronic documentation and computer-based diagnostics technology to the airline and automotive markets.

Belair joined BAE Systems in 2002 and was named Vice President of the Undersea Warfare Division in February 2003, and President of Technology Solutions and Services (TSS) in June 2006.  As President of TSS, Belair led more than 8,000 employees across 50 major locations to deliver technical solutions to customers for products at any point in their life-cycle, anywhere in the world.

Belair lives in Ijamsville, Maryland with his wife Sue.