Federal Contractors | Technology 2024: ADAM RIDDLE

In April 2023, Riddle was named chairman and CEO of Rolls-Royce North America and president of its defense division. Riddle has more than a decade of experience under his belt with the British aerospace, defense and engineering company.

Most recently, Riddle headed up Rolls-Royce’s global services division, which accounts for more than half of Rolls-Royce’s defense unit’s annual revenues. Previously, Riddle was director of strategy and future programs.

Before coming to Rolls-Royce, Riddle worked for Boeing in defense operations. He is a West Point graduate and former U.S. Army officer.

In 2023, Rolls-Royce Holdings reported $19.75 billion in underlying revenue, up from $16.29 billion in 2022. In May, it was announced that Rolls-Royce Holdings had won a contract to supply technology for a new version of the “doomsday plane” for the American military as part of the Survivable Airborne Operations Center project. With the contract, Rolls-Royce will join other contractors to develop a successor to the U.S. Air Force’s E-4B planes, which can survive a nuclear blast and function as mobile command centers in the event of a national emergency.