Chip Fichtner
Head of Engineering
Background
Head of Engineering
Chip Fichtner serves as Head of Engineering for Hemisphere Defense, leading system and platform engineering, technical design, engineering standards, and program execution across development efforts. He brings more than 40 years as an engineering and operations executive, including service as an Executive Director at RTX, where he led large engineering, manufacturing, quality, and program-management organizations. His career spans P&L responsibility from $5 million to $900 million and teams of more than 500 across domestic and international operations, with expertise in advanced manufacturing, Lean operations, and complex systems integration. He is recognized for recovering underperforming programs and building disciplined organizations that deliver complex work reliably, experience he now applies to Hemisphere Defense's engineering and program development.