Raytheon Co. extends its deepest condolences and heartfelt support to the family and friends of Jon C Jones, a Raytheon Co. VP, and president of the Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) business, who died of an apparent heart attack. He was 55. An admired leader and colleague, Jon Jones joined the Raytheon family in 1977. He steadily progressed to senior management by overseeing the engineering and development of some of the company’s premier missiles product lines. Before being appointed president of El Segundo, California-based SAS in November 2005, Mr Jones served as vice president and deputy general manager of SAS and had also held a similar position with Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson, Arizona. Mr Jones served as executive diversity champion for Raytheon and was a member of the Raytheon Executive Diversity Leadership Team.