Written by / Compiled by KMI Media Group staff
Air Force Major General Michael J. Basla, who has been serving as vice director, command, control, communications and computer systems, J-6, Joint Staff, has been assigned as vice commander, Air Force Space Command, Peterson Air Force Base, Colo.
Air Force Major General William T. Lord has been nominated for appointment to the rank of lieutenant general with assignment as chief, war fighting integration and chief information officer, Office of the Secretary of the Air Force. Lord has been serving as commander, Air Force Cyber Command (Provisional), Barksdale AFB, La.
Army Brigadier General Mark S. Bowman, director, J-6, Central Command, has been assigned as director of architecture, operations, networks and space, Army Office of the Chief Information Officer/G-6.
Air Force Brigadier General Brett T. Williams, commander, 18th Wing, Pacific Air Forces, Kadena Air Base, Japan, has been named as director, Command, Control, Communications and Computer Systems, J-6, Headquarters U.S. Pacific Command, Camp H.M. Smith, Hawaii.
Army Major General Dennis L. Via, who has been serving as commanding general of the Army Communications- Electronics Life Cycle Management Command and Fort Monmouth, N.J., has been nominated for appointment to the rank of lieutenant general and assignment as director for command, control, communications and computer systems, J-6, Joint Staff.
Air Force Lieutenant General William L. Shelton, who has been serving as chief of war fighting integration and chief information officer, Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, has been assigned as vice chief of staff and director, Air Staff, Air Force.
Marine Corps General Peter Pace (Ret.), who served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2005 to 2007, has joined BGR Group as senior adviser.
Pace will assist clients with developing and executing strategies associated with defense and national security issues as well as foreign and domestic corporate strategy and governance. He also has particular interests in cybersecurity, transactions impacted by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, and geo-political issues.
Robert D. Hirt has been named senior vice president and deputy manager of Alion’s Engineering and Information Technology Sector, which provides engineering, technical, operational and analytical support to the Department of Defense, various government agencies and commercial and civilian customers.
Army Major General Randolph P. Strong, director of architecture, operations, networks and space, Army Office of the Chief Information Officer/G-6, has been appointed commanding general, Army Communications- Electronics Life Cycle Management Command and Fort Monmouth, N.J. Air Force Brigadier General Charles K. Shugg, commander, Joint Unmanned Aircraft Systems Center of Excellence, U.S. Joint Forces Command, Creech AFB, Nev., has been assigned as vice commander, Air Force Cyber Command (Provisional), Barksdale AFB, La.
Ted Ventresca has joined the Military Information Technology sales team, where he will focus on the Air Force. A career in marketing/sales and as a media executive with a winning track record as a global senior vice president and managing director of digital media consulting and satellite radio/data companies, he is considered a digital media pioneer with international sales/marketing experience including digital radio, print, event and seminar development in the Middle East, South Africa, United States, Europe and Asia. He developed the “Tune Into Home” campaign, marketing satellite radio to U.S. and British servicemembers in Iraq and Afghanistan. ♦