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SPSS Inc., Chicago, named Sarah E. Mattingly director of partner alliances for its North American public-sector business unit.

Chicago, named director of partner alliances for its North American public-sector business unit. She will be responsible for providing public-sector partners with analytical solutions, applications, services and support. She has more than 10 years of high-tech experience.
SPSS Inc.,Sarah E. MattinglyACS Inc. has hired Lisa Jacobson as chief financial officer of its Government Solutions Group based in Rockville, Md. She will develop and direct the financial resources of the group as it provides broad-based information technology solutions for federal government customers.Final Analysis, Lanham, Md., named Betsy T. Kulick as director of external relations. She will also be responsible for marketing and communications.The Washington Metropolitan Area Chapter of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) in McLean, Va., announced its 2001 board. Bruce Shelton of Anser Corp. is president. John Leonard of System Solution Associates is vice president/president-elect. Bill Seeger of SAIC is secretary. Ramachandran "R" Pillai of Defense Contract Management Agency is treasurer. David Torrealba of Barnaby Associates and James Martin of the Aerospace Corp. are directors.Bethesda, Md.-based Social & Scientific Systems named two new members to its board of directors, W. Lyles Carr III and James J. Lynch. The firm also named Lynch executive vice president. He has held several positions at SSS since joining the firm in 1998. Carr is senior vice president of executive search firm The McCormick Group in Washington.PEC Solutions, Fairfax, Va., appointed Frank J. Carr and R. Jerry Grossman to its board of directors. Before his retirement from the government in 1988, Carr served for 11 years as the General Services Administration's commissioner of computer and telecommunications acquisition and management policy and planning. Grossman is managing director of Houlihan, Lokey Howard & Zukin's Washington office.Send information to Who's on First Editor, Washington Technology, 8500 Leesburg Pike, Suite 7500, Vienna, Va. 22182; fax (703) 848-2353.

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