2022 HENAAC Awards

Education: Bachelor’s, Electrical Engineers, Rochester Institute of Technology; Master’s (candidate), Engineering Management, Clarkson University. 

Abigail McFiggins has established herself as an engineering leader with impressive technical and leadership ability who is as comfortable with fostering talent as she is with innovating advanced systems and technical problem solving. 

In her current role as the electrical systems and circuit card assembly design manager, Ms.  McFiggins leads a team of engineers developing electrical architectures and generating detailed designs and prototyping. Her team is responsible for providing Lockheed Martin’s defense customers with training and simulation solutions that include complex digital landscapes and cityscapes for fighter aircraft simulators. Her work has helped propel more than $600M in sales.

Born in Tijuana, Mexico, Ms. McFiggens migrated to the United States with her family when she was only 7.  Her own experiences struggling with a new language and other challenges many immigrants face has driven her to go above and beyond the call of duty to help the next generation of underserved students and younger colleagues overcome the obstacles she faced. To accomplish this, she’s become a senior leader and a prolific volunteer with Lockheed Martin’s Hispanic Leadership Council, or HOLA.

In addition to events for HOLA members across the company, including the annual Leadership forum, Ms. McFiggens spearheads many of the company’s K-12 outreach programs.  Partnering with groups like Great Minds in STEM, she helps bring Lockheed Martin employees face to face with elementary and middle school students to expose them to technical fields like robotics and block programming, empowering thousands of students with STEM-specific programming. She also helped develop and deliver the Lockheed Martin-sponsored SHPEtinas Forum with the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, a national event to kick off women’s history month.  On top of that, she was the lead coordinator for the Tioga County Mathalon for 5 years, and she served a 3-year term as the director of the Catholic Schools of Broome County where she advocated for expanding STEM education.