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<b>Ann Mitchell</b> joined <b>Planet Technologies Inc.</b>, Germantown, Md., as director of educational services.

joined , Germantown, Md., as director of educational services. She will lead Microsoft solution and service opportunities in education. Mitchell managed education partnerships for Microsoft Corp. joined , McLean, Va., as corporate vice president of contracts and will oversee government and commercial contracts. Peak led operations for Northrop Grumman Corp.'s contracts, pricing and procurement department. was named president of , Sunnyvale, Calif. Springsteel will continue as chief financial officer of the company, a post he has held since January 2003. , who relinquished the president title, will continue as CEO.Former National Counter-Terrorism Center Director joined the as president and CEO. Brennan also was director of NCTC's predecessor, CIA's Terrorist Threat Integration Center.Former NASA scientist joined San Diego-based 's Intelligence Group as senior vice president and general manager for the space and geospatial intelligence business unit. Shea most recently was vice president and executive director for TASC Inc.'s space and intelligence business unit in Northrop Grumman's IT Sector. Former Titan Corp. CFO and Treasurer joined SAIC as executive vice president and CFO, replacing , who assumes the new position of executive vice president of strategic projects.Former Navy Rear joined of San Diego as vice president of C4I systems. Tallent previously was director of operations for the U.S. European Command. , and have joined 's federal area management team. Anderson, director of Defense Department operations, previously was Dell Inc.'s vice president of enterprise sales for government, education and health care. D'Eramo, director of federal marketing, previously held a similar position at Hewlett-Packard Co. Hoffman, director of civilian operations, transferred from Cisco's commercial business organization, where he was a regional manager. is the new vice president of defense and intelligence systems at digital video systems developer of Washington. Frye was with L-3 Communications Inc.'s Government Services Inc. will succeed Leon Level as corporate vice president and CFO of Keane, CSC vice president of finance, until earlier this year was senior vice president and CFO of Unova Inc. Level, CSC's CFO since August 1989, will continue as a corporate vice president and will keep responsibility for corporate supply-chain management and administrative services. joined the board of directors of , Herndon, Va. For more than 30 years, Munson has held several senior roles at the Defense Intelligence Agency, including executive roles at the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense and the Defense Security Service. was named administrator of the , Fort Belvoir, Va. He had been acting administrator since November 2004. Previously at DTIC, Ryan was deputy administrator responsible for daily operations, budget and personnel. Kristin Bass was named vice president of strategic development in the Washington office of Chicago-based National Alliance for Health IT. Bass comes to the industry group from her role as vice president of federal affairs for WellPoint Health Networks Inc.Former Army , and have joined management consultancy , Springfield, Va. Simone is vice president, Language Services Center. Until September, he was commandant of Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. Houck, now vice president of operations at ViStar Consulting Center, came to McNeil through its acquisition of IT management consultancy ViStar Inc. Pang, ViStar founder and president, is senior vice president of ViStar Consulting. joined systems integrator , Oxnard, Calif., as senior vice president of business development. Dorrick most recently was business development director for two of General Dynamics Corp.'s Advanced Information Systems' strategic business units. joined the , Reston, Va., as managing director of commercial operations and will help drive public-private partnerships to develop tools to support network-centric operations for global security and commerce. Budgor is founder and CEO of IT consultancy Aaron Budgor and Associates. was named to the board of directors for , Germantown, Md. He fills a vacancy created by the death in September of David Grimes, company founder and chairman. and have joined management consultancy . Burke, the new COO, will be based in the company's Washington office. He was lead developer for Bigfoot Interactive, now part of Alliance Data Systems. Porcano, previously vice president of development at the Pirt Group, joins the company at its New York headquarters. , director of supplier performance at Honeywell Aerospace Inc., joined the board of directors for supply-chain management industry group , Irvine, Calif. was named vice president of sales at e-mail spam filter developer , Menlo Park, Calif. Shuchami was a vice president of sales for software developer Enigma Inc. joined government IT contractor , Arlington, Va., as vice president of business development. Gray comes to Hi-Tec after 22 years with Raytheon Technical Services Co. will continue as president when he replaces Todd Stottlemyer as CEO of , now a wholly owned subsidiary of QinetiQ North America, the defense arm of QinetiQ Ltd., Farnborough, U.K. Leslie was president and COO of Apogen Technologies, McLean, Va., before its recent acquisition by QinetiQ. Stottlemyer will join the National Federation of Independent Businesses as that organization's president and CEO., a provider of IT consulting services to government and contractors, appointed two senior-level executives: Ret. Air Force as executive vice president and as executive consultant. was named president of IT outsourcing services provider , Southfield, Mich. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of TechTeam Global Inc., Chantilly, Va. Kelly comes to TechTeam from Anteon International Corp.At , Silver Spring, Md.: Laura Dechter to vice president. Dechter will continue as deputy director of the worldwide meetings and communications division.At , McLean, Va.: to account supervisor.At , Bethesda, Md.: to area vice president, government systems. Simmons is responsible for managing all aspects of Citrix Federal government operations. At McLean, Va., 11 new vice presidents: in Washington, , IT strategy, investment management, enterprise architecture, and organizational transformation; in McLean, , financial and commercial system services for financial institutions and government regulatory and treasury agencies; in Crystal City, Va., , communications engineering and infrastructure solutions for information sharing and management; in Falls Church, Va., , disaster modeling of national telecom asset performance; in McLean, , IT and systems; in Norfolk, Va., , Hampton Roads office business coordination; in Rockville, Md., , strategic planning, federal agency health-care IT integration; in McLean, , information assurance program analysis; in McLean, , operations, training and acquisition, and large-scale distributed modeling and simulation; in Herndon, Va., , National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency support; and, in Herndon, Va., , workforce planning, organization design, and human resources consulting services.At : to sector vice president of mission assurance and process-improvement initiative Six Sigma at the company's Mission Systems sector, Reston, Va.; to vice president of operations and processes at the company's IT sector; to corporate vice president and chief human resources and administrative officer. At the Electronic Systems Sector: to sector vice president and general manager of the aerospace systems division; to vice president of the sector's combat avionics systems business unit. Send personnel announcements to .
Appointed

Ann MitchellPlanet Technologies Inc.

R. Michael PeakApogen Technologies Inc.

Steven SpringsteelVerity Inc.Anthony Bettencourt

John BrennanAnalysis Corp.

K. Stuart SheaScience Applications International Corp.Mark SoppTom Darcy

Adm. Hamlin TallentSentek Consulting Inc.

Jim AndersonPatrice D'EramoSteve HoffmanCisco Systems Inc.

Jason FryeMediaWare Solutions Inc.

Michael KeaneComputer Sciences Corp.

Margaret MunsonMcDonald Bradley Inc.

R. Paul RyanDefense Technical Information Center


Col. Michael SimoneJohn HouckFred PangMcNeil Technologies Inc.

Jon DorrickITS Corp.

Aaron BudgorWorld Wide Consortium for the Grid

Seth BlumenfeldTelkonet Inc.

Thomas BurkeLen PorcanoPlus Three LP



Bill HaydenSupplier Excellence Alliance

Nathan ShuchamiBlue Security Inc.

Philip GrayHi-Tec Systems Inc.

Paul LeslieApogen Technologies

Suss Consulting Inc.Brig. Gen. Bernie SkochTom Childs

Dennis Kelly Jr.TechTeam Government Solutions Inc.

Promoted

Social and Scientific Systems Inc.

SheaHedges Group LLCSara Luster

Citrix Systems Inc.Thomas Simmons Jr.

Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.,Michael FarberMargo FitzpatrickPatricia GoforthJanet LymanAngela MesserAnthony MitchellRobin PortmanBob PostGale SmithJack Welsh Jr.Abe Zwany

Northrop Grumman Corp.Kelley ZelicksonLinda MillsIan ZiskinJohn JohnsonJoseph Ensor

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