Written by / Compiled by KMI Media Group staff
MIT 2010 Volume: 14 Issue: 2 (March)
STG has named James Felter as senior vice president, defense sector, where he will be responsible for the operation and oversight of approximately 800 STG defense sector employees and more than $150 million in annual revenue. Before joining STG, Felter served as director, battle command applications at Northrop Grumman.
Air Force Brigadier General Craig S. Olson has been assigned as program executive officer, enterprise information systems, Electronic Systems Center, Air Force Materiel Command, Maxwell- Gunter AFB, Ala. He has been chief of the Office of Security Cooperation, Multi-National Security Transition Command- Iraq.
LGS, a subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent dedicated to serving the U.S. government community, has named Robert Farr as its director of corporate marketing and Kathleen Cowles to head up a newly created position of director of corporate and government affairs.
ManTech International has named Robert P. Frisbie as senior vice president in its Mission, Cyber and Technology Solutions group, where he will be responsible for the security support and special military programs business areas, and for business development efforts in Afghanistan. Before entering private industry, Frisbie was deputy director of the Army Communications Electronics Command Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Directorate, where he established the first Army Information Warfare Special Program Office, helped develop Army doctrine in information warfare, and provided engineering support for all of the Army tactical signals intelligence, electronic warfare and intelligence fusion programs.
Army Colonel Valerie Jircitano Jacocks (Ret.) has joined General Dynamics C4 Systems as director of Army accounts for the business unit’s Washington operations. Jacocks will support customer relations with the Army on behalf of the business unit and work on strategic and new business development initiatives. She will also work closely on communication network programs and strategies, command and control applications for battle management, Army research and development, and technology projects and programs.
L-3 Communications has appointed Army Lieutenant General James J. Lovelace (Ret.) as corporate vice president of international programs. In this role, he will coordinate L-3’s international program efforts and provide strategic direction toward expanding the company’s presence in global markets. Lovelace’s 39-year Army career culminated in his post as commanding general, U.S. Army Central/ Third Army/Coalition Forces Land Component Command, from which he retired in July 2009.
Ultra Electronics Criticom, a provider of secure video communications experts for government operations, has hired Jonathan Smith as vice president of sales and marketing, where he will be responsible for driving sales, helping with business development efforts, and building Criticom’s strategic programs efforts. Smith has over 20 years of federal IT sales and marketing senior management experience in such companies as Cisco, US Robotics/3com and Zenith Data Systems.
CapRock Government Solutions has selected Augustine Ponturiero to join its Fairfax, Va.-based team as director of operations. Ponturiero, who has more than 20 years of comprehensive experience in C4ISR programs, will primarily oversee the day-to-day functions of CapRock’s Satcom Division and its government- dedicated Network Operations Center.
Marybeth Wootton has joined the Pragmatics Business Development Group as vice president, foreign affairs. She will lead Pragmatics in building relationships with the intelligence community, Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development, and will identify and bid new competitive task orders and large strategic procurements. Wootton has extensive knowledge of the defense, intelligence and federal civilian government markets, and the products and systems available to meet their mission-critical needs. ♦