????即將赴任洛克希德馬丁公司（Lockheed Martin）CEO的克里斯托弗?庫巴斯科中途意外落馬，卻讓《財富》最具影響力女性榜單（Fortune's Most Powerful Women）中的一位高管有了晉級的機會。

????瑪麗琳?休森在今年的最具影響力女性榜單中排名第19位。按預定計劃，明年1月1日,克里斯托弗?庫巴斯科將接替鮑勃?斯蒂文斯，成為公司CEO；屆時，瑪麗琳?休森將擔任公司首席運營官。然而，由于一份道德調查結果顯示，庫巴斯科與一位下屬關系曖昧，因此，庫巴斯科在今天提出辭職，原先的計劃被徹底打亂。于是，明年年初，休森將成為公司的舵手。

????休森已經在洛克希德工作了將近30年時間，目前負責公司最大的部門——電子系統部門。2011年，該部門的銷售額約占公司總銷售額的三分之一。

????今年夏天的《財富》最具影響力商界女性論壇上，休森在軍工業女性座談小組上進行了發言。期間，她談到軍工行業越來越多的女性高管，開始走上高級職位。【菲比?諾瓦科維奇也將在1月1日接管通用動力（General Dynamics），成為另外一名軍工企業CEO。】

????休森說：“我根本不認為這是個巧合，這是個事實。因為（那次座談會上）我們三位，還有眾多同事從事這個行業已達數十年時間。數十年的豐富經驗，數十年的成功經歷，讓我們一步步邁入公司管理層，為高級職位展開競爭。”

????早在任命宣布之前，休森便早已是軍工業職位最高的女性之一。但今年4月，58歲的休森被宣布提拔為首席財務官時，她在洛克希德的職場道路似乎就已經達到了頂峰。而年僅51歲的庫巴斯科似乎擁有更遠大的發展前景。

????休森在堪薩斯的一個小鎮長大。座談會期間，她也談到了自己進入軍工業的機緣。休斯的家在萊利堡附近，父親在美國軍部任職，母親在二戰期間是陸軍婦女隊的一名護士。

????她說，她去佐治亞州瑪麗埃塔市參加洛克希德公司的面試。當她看到工廠里停放放的飛機，意識到在這里工作所要面臨的挑戰性之后，她就被這家公司深深吸引。她說，之后：“我對其他工作機會失去了興趣。我的心已經完全被洛克希德俘獲了。”

????譯者：劉進龍/汪皓

????The fall of Lockheed Martin's incoming CEO Christopher Kubasik has elevated one of Fortune's Most Powerful Women.

????Marillyn Hewson, No. 19 on our power list this year, was due to become COO on January 1 when Kubasik took over the top job from Bob Stevens -- that is until today when Kubasik resigned after an ethics investigation showed he had a relationship with a subordinate. Now Hewson will take the helm at the start of the year.

????Hewson, a nearly 30-year Lockheed (LMT) veteran, currently runs the company's largest division, Electronic Systems, which generated nearly a third of the company's sales in 2011.

????At the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit this summer, Hewson spoke on a panel about women in defense, during which she addressed the rising number of female executives in the industry moving into increasingly senior roles. (Phebe Novakovic is also slated to become a defense industry CEO when takes over at General Dynamics (GD) on January 1.)

????"I don't think it's coincidence at all," Hewson said. "I think it's a matter of the fact that the three of us [on this panel] and many of our colleagues have been in this industry for decades, and so we have decades of experience, we have decades of a track record of success, and we've moved up in the organization to compete for the top jobs."

????Even before today's announcement, she was already one of the highest-ranking women in the industry. But it seemed that Hewson, 58, had reached her peak at Lockheed when her promotion to COO was announced in April. Kubasik at 51 had a long runway out in front of him.

????Hewson, who grew up in a small town in Kansas, also talked about her roots in the defense world during the panel discussion. She lived adjacent to Fort Riley, her father was with the department of the army, and her mother was a nurse with the Women's Army Corps during World War II.

????She said when she went to interview at Lockheed in Marietta, Georgia, she was hooked after seeing all of the aircraft on the factory floor and realizing the challenges of the job. After that, "I never really wanted to work anywhere else," she said. "That's what seized my imagination."