TASC CEO joins PSC board

Wood Parker, president and CEO of TASC Inc., has been elected to a three-year term on the Professional Services Council board of directors.

Wood Parker, president and CEO of TASC Inc., has been elected to a three-year term on the Professional Services Council board of directors.

The national trade association, which represents the government professional and technical services industry, is composed of more than 330 companies that provide the federal government with engineering, IT and logistics services.

At TASC, Parker leads a team of nearly 5,000 employees responsible for providing systems engineering and advisory services to the intelligence community, Defense Department and federal civilian agencies.

He was previously president of Northrop Grumman Corp.’s Federal Enterprise Solutions unit, serving the civilian sector of the federal government market.

Prior to joining Northrop Grumman in 2000, he was managing partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP's Washington, D.C., consulting practice.

Parker retired from the Navy after 20 years of service, during which he commanded a Navy destroyer in the First Persian Gulf War and served as administrative assistant to the secretary of the Navy.