posted 02-11-2011 08:46 AM               

"Ken's leadership abilities, vast array of experiences and contacts, and recognition and respect from several of our key customers will provide SAIC with the leadership, insights, and networking abilities critical to our future success," said SAIC Senior Vice President and Deputy Operations Manager David Cazes.

On the contract, SAIC provides safety, reliability, maintainability and quality for the space shuttle, International Space Station, payloads and other items prepared for flight for NASA's Johnson Space Center. SAIC also supports technical and process issues, future programs and new technologies and the White Sands Test Facility near Las Cruces, N.M.

Cameron left NASA in August of 1996 to join Hughes Training, Inc., a subsidiary of General Motors Corporation, as Executive Director of Houston Operations. In September of 1997, Cameron was transferred to Saab Automobile, AB, in Sweden, as Vehicle Line Executive for the Saab 9-3 automobile. Upon return to the U.S., he worked at the General Motors Technical Center, near Detroit, in positions in World Wide Purchasing, Supplier Technology Acquisition, and Research & Development, Fuel Cell Vehicle Development.

Following the loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia and her crew, Cameron returned to the space program in October 2003, taking a founding position in the NASA Engineering & Safety Center as a Principal Engineer, based at the NASA Langley Research Center, in Hampton, Virginia. In June 2005 Cameron was selected as Deputy Director for Safety of the NESC, and in June 2007 he was relocated to the NESC office at Johnson Space Center, in Houston, Texas.

Cameron retired from NASA in December of 2008 to join Northrop Grumman Corporation as the Director of Houston Operations for Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems.