People news: Parkhurst named director of life cycle management at SRCTec

CICERO, N.Y. — Geoff Parkhurst has been promoted to director of life cycle management at SRCTec.

As a director, Parkhurst will lead the life cycle management, sustainment, and service activities for all of SRCTec’s products and programs. He will also be instrumental in expanding the sustainment support we provide our customers.

“With Geoff’s help we have made great strides with our company’s logistics and sustainment efforts, especially during the design of new SRC products,” said Tony Stewart, general manager of SRCTec. “He has [an] extensive background in life cycle management, and as a veteran, he understands our military customers and their mission.”

Parkhurst started at SRCTec in 2019 as the senior manager of integrated logistics support. He served on active duty in the U.S. Air Force for 26 years, achieving the rank of colonel as commander of the 56th Maintenance Group, which was the Air Force’s largest field maintenance unit at the time, where he led 2,800 military and civilian employees who maintained 186 F-16 fighter aircraft and launched 150 pilot training flights each day.

Parkhurst holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical/aerospace engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology and master’s degrees in business administration from the University of Rochester and in administrative service from Northern Michigan University.

SRCTec is a manufacturing and life cycle management company specializing in the production of advanced military electro-mechanical products. SRCTec is a subsidiary of SRC Ventures, Inc., a holding company for SRC’s for-profit companies, according to the SRC website. SRC, a not-for-profit research and development company, says it combines information, science, technology and ingenuity to solve “impossible” problems in the areas of defense, environment, and intelligence.