Obituary For Former Northrop CEO Jones

Credit: Northrop Grumman
Thomas V. Jones, who led the Northrop Corp. for almost 30 years, died Jan. 7 of pulmonary fibrosis. He was 93. Jones became CEO of Northrop in 1960. When he was 33, he joined the company from the Rand Corp., where he had studied the balance of cost and effectiveness in military aircraft. Northrop...

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