Woodward (NASDAQ: WWD) — Company Overview, News & Financial Data
Woodward designs control solutions for aerospace and industrial sectors, focusing on energy optimization and sustainability.
Woodward
Woodward is an American designer, manufacturer, and service provider of control system solutions and components for the aerospace and industrial markets. Headquartered in Fort Collins, Colorado, the company operates through two primary segments: Aerospace and Industrial. Its product offerings include fuel metering units, electronic controls, actuators, valves, pumps, cockpit controls, and engine control systems used in commercial and military aircraft, ground vehicles, power generation equipment, oil and gas operations, and heavy transportation systems. Woodward serves major original equipment manufacturers and system integrators globally, providing integration, field service, and aftermarket support across worldwide commercial and defense networks.
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Operations
Products and/or services of Woodward
- Aircraft Engine Controls: Manufacturing and supply of fuel metering units, main fuel pumps, electronic engine control units, airflow control valves, and thermal management systems for commercial airliners, business jets, and military fixed-wing and rotary aircraft engines.
- Flight Actuation and Controls: Supply of primary and secondary flight control actuators, utility actuation mechanisms, integrated cockpit control systems, and electro-mechanical motion components used across commercial airframes, defense platforms, and unmanned aerial vehicles.
- Heavy Transportation Fuel Systems: Engineering and manufacturing of high-pressure fuel injection systems, electronic control units, dual-fuel pumps, and combustion components for large marine vessels, freight locomotives, and mining equipment engines.
- Industrial Power Generation Controls: Production of digital engine governors, automatic generator set controllers, fuel management valves, and power management units for land-based power plants, distributed generation facilities, and backup emergency power systems.
- Oil and Gas Turbomachinery Controls: Provision of specialized turbomachinery control systems, gas turbine fuel valves, industrial actuators, and safety control systems installed in oil and gas extraction, pipeline compression, and petrochemical processing operations.
- Space and Defense Systems: Design and manufacture of specialized thrust vector control actuation, missile steering control systems, land vehicle motion controls, and high-reliability electro-mechanical mechanisms for defense applications and space launch vehicles.
Woodward executive team
- Mr. Charles P. Blankenship Jr.CEO & Chairman
- Mr. William F. LaceyExecutive VP & CFO
- Mr. Thomas G. CromwellExecutive VP & COO
- Mr. Randall L. HobbsExecutive VP & President of Industrial
- Daniel ProvaznikDirector of Investor Relations
- Ms. Karrie M. BemExecutive VP, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary & Chief Compliance Officer
- Mr. Ron C. CharlesExecutive VP & Chief Human Resources Officer
- Mr. W. John GodsmanExecutive Vice President of Strategy & Business Development
- Mr. Shawn McLevigeExecutive VP & President of Aerospace Segment