The Aerospace Industries Association, the influential Arlington, Va.-based trade group, named Robert J. Stevens of Lockheed Martin Corp. as its chairman for 2009.
Stevens, Lockheed Martin's chairman, president and CEO, succeeds Clayton M. Jones, chairman, president and CEO of Rockwell Collins. Scott C. Donnelly, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Textron Inc., was elected AIA's vice chairman.
They were elected by AIA's board of governors, which includes Century City-based Northrop Grumman Corp. chairman and CEO Ronald D. Sugar and Carson-based Ducommun Inc. chairman and CEO Joseph C. Berenato.

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