Aeronautics Group appoints Dan Slasky as CEO

The Aero­nau­tics Group’s board of direc­tors has appoint­ed Dan Slasky as CEO to pro­vide inte­grat­ed turnkey solu­tions based on unmanned sys­tems plat­forms, pay­loads and com­mu­ni­ca­tions for defence and home­land secu­ri­ty (HLS) appli­ca­tions.

Head­ed by chair­man Major Gen­er­al (retired) Yoav Har-Even, Slasky replaces Moshe Elazar, who com­plet­ed a suc­cess­ful three-year term as Aero­nau­tics Group CEO, dur­ing which time the com­pa­ny dou­bled sales, tripled its order back­log, devel­oped prod­ucts and won major inter­na­tion­al ten­ders.

For the past five years, Slasky served as CEO of the SCD Group, joint­ly owned by Rafael and Elbit Sys­tems to devel­op and man­u­fac­ture infrared sen­sors for the defence and civil­ian mar­kets.

Under his lead­er­ship, the com­pa­ny has grown and devel­oped into a world leader in the field, with annu­al sales around $200 mil­lion, a wide geo­graph­ic dis­tri­b­u­tion, and prod­ucts installed on major plat­forms in Israel and around the world.

Pri­or to that, Slasky served in senior man­age­ment posi­tions at Elbit Sys­tems, includ­ing as senior vice pres­i­dent of the air­borne elec­tro-opti­cal and laser divi­sion for direc­tion­al infrared counter mea­sures (DIRCM) anti-mis­sile defence sys­tems installed on mil­i­tary and civil­ian air­craft, as well as tac­ti­cal and long-range obser­va­tion sys­tems for drones and manned air­craft, space imag­ing sys­tems, head up dis­play sys­tems for air­craft, and laser-based sys­tems.

Har-Even said: “I wel­come the appoint­ment of Dan Slasky as CEO of the Aero­nau­tics Group, as he brings with him a wealth of skills and expe­ri­ence, both as CEO and in lead­ing large mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary teams in the air­borne domain. I wish to thank Moshe Elazar for the company’s impres­sive achieve­ments in recent years.”

Aero­nau­tics Group pro­vides a com­pre­hen­sive solu­tion based on an autonomous mul­ti-mis­sion oper­a­tional con­cept. Its prod­ucts offer com­pre­hen­sive solu­tions for intel­li­gence, sur­veil­lance, tar­get acqui­si­tion and recon­nais­sance (ISTAR) and HLS mis­sions.

Backed by con­tin­u­ous research and devel­op­ment, these sys­tems are built on decades of tech­no­log­i­cal and oper­a­tional expe­ri­ence. As part of Rafael Advanced Defense Sys­tems, Aero­nau­tics utilis­es the tech­no­log­i­cal syn­er­gy between Rafael’s advanced air, land and naval defence capa­bil­i­ties and Aero­nau­tics’ sta­tus as a lead­ing unmanned and autonomous solu­tions inte­gra­tor.