Maintaining a talented, world-class team is paramount to Curtiss-Wright's success.
It begins with our culture, which incorporates a dedication to total integrity, excellence and continuous improvement, with a commitment to delivering strong operational results. We pride ourselves on operational and commercial excellence, and customer satisfaction, and are constantly working to develop products for must-not-fail, safety-critical solutions that address our customers' most challenging engineering problems. As a result, we understand that the continued success of our Company requires attracting, retaining, and developing the best people and identifying our next generation of leaders to drive our performance for decades to come.
With those goals in mind, we continue to invest in our workforce in support of our Pivot to Growth strategy and to position Curtiss-Wright for long-term, profitable growth. We are constantly evaluating and refining our key talent programs to meet future challenges and improve overall employee engagement.
As part of our on-going investment, we provide an enterprise-wide suite of professional development and training tools focused on enhancing skills that are critical for our long-term success, such as supply-chain management as well as program and project management training, along with opportunities to improve employee financial acumen, strategic thinking and executive presence. Our programs include targeted engineering leadership training and a cross-functional New Business Leader (NBL) program focused on the development of early-career, high-potential employees, which has produced nearly 350 graduates thus far.
Top left: Employees nominated to participate in the New Business Leader (NBL) program conclude their nearly 2-year development journey with action learning project presentations to Curtiss-Wright's senior leadership team.
Top right: Curtiss-Wright employees, including Sr. VP and General Manager Brian Perry, brief CEO Lynn Bamford on our comprehensive suite of ruggedized, reliable, and secure COTS solutions that are aligned with key defense industry standards.
Bottom: Chief Operating Officer Kevin Rayment commences the awards presentation congratulating the teams on their successful achievements and completion of the program.
For our most distinguished technical experts - many of whom are recognized across their respective industries - our Technical Fellow program represents our commitment to advancing technical excellence by recognizing the top 1-2% of our engineering colleagues who exhibit the peak of expertise and authority in their field. In 2024, this distinguished program consists of more than 50 honorary members.
In 2024, we significantly invested in a new digital suite of talent management solutions that are tailored to the different stages of an employee's career, from the initial hiring and onboarding process, all the way to retirement. This is supported by on-demand videos and workshops to help develop each employee's knowledge and skill set, along with coaching and consistent feedback to help them succeed and advance in their careers. We also launched a new suite of self-directed employee development tools which provides a significant step forward in our commitment to fostering continuous learning and professional growth within our organization.
At the same time, new IT systems provide our management team with a common interface for employee development which facilitates check-in processes and performance reviews against objectives, and also help in workforce planning, resulting in improved connectivity across our global organization.
In all, our culture and development programs are truly foundational to our success and our ability to continue to deliver strong financial results.
The implementation of an enterprise-wide training and development tool creates a roadmap for managing the Employment Development Life Cycle. It utilizes AI to produce innovative development material, including role-specific curriculums to increase capabilities and retention, matching the individual's needs and the important roles and practices that the Corporation believes are critical for success.
