Northrop Grumman Names Tony Spehar Vice President, Program Manager Of ICBM Prime Integration Contract

March 8, 2010 by Jeffrey Bradford · Comment
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Northrop Grumman Names Tony Spehar Vice President, Program Manager Of ICBM Prime Integration Contract
March 8, 2010

CLEARFIELD, Utah –– Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) today named Anthony (Tony) Spehar vice president and program manager for the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Prime Integration Contract (IPIC), a 15-year effort to modernize and maintain the reliability, safety and security of the nation's entire force of land-based Minuteman III missiles.

Most recently, Spehar was the chief engineer and director of the company's Missile Systems Center of Excellence, which consists of some
500 missile engineers in six states. Prior to that, he was vice president and general manager of the former Kinetic Energy Interceptors (KEI) program. Spehar succeeds Jim Meyers, who will retire effective May 31 after a 16-year career with Northrop Grumman.

"Tony Spehar brings technical and program management strength to the position that will continue the achievements that Jim Meyers managed so well," said John Clay, vice president of Missile Systems for the company's Aerospace Systems sector.

In addition to serving as KEI general manager, Spehar also held a similar position for the IPIC Minuteman III Propulsion Replacement Program, as well as other ICBM modernization efforts such as the Rapid Execution and Combat Targeting Service Life Extension Program.

He earned a bachelor's degree in physics and a master's degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Utah. He also completed the Advanced Program Management Course at the Defense Systems Management College in Fort Belvoir, Va.

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Army PM J-AIT Welcomes a New Product Manager — Press Release

June 30, 2009 by Matthew Potter · Comment
Filed under: Business Line, Events, IT, Press Releases, Services, U.S. Army, development program, logistics 

Army PM J-AIT Welcomes a New Product Manager

Newington, VA, June 30, 2009 – A change of leadership has taken place at the US Army Product Manager for Joint – Automatic Identification Technology (PM J-AIT). Lieutenant Colonel Cary V. Ferguson is the new Product manager for the organization, effective 24 June 2009. In this assignment, Lt. Col. Ferguson is responsible for the acquisition and integration of the Army’s Automatic Identification Technology (AIT) and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) equipment and services.

“It is an exciting opportunity to lead the PM J-AIT team,” said Lt. Col. Ferguson. “PM J-AIT has an outstanding reputation as the DoD’s leading provider of innovative AIT products and services. I look forward to continuing Col. Burden’s legacy of providing state-of-the-art technologies to our Soldiers and their mission.”

Lt. Col. Ferguson joins the PM J-AIT office with 19 years of military experience. His last assignment was as the Assistant Project Manager and the Military Deputy for the Project Manager Global Combat Support System-Army (GCSS-Army) at Fort Lee, VA. Lt. Col Ferguson received his Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame and a Master of Science Degree from the Naval Postgraduate School. He is also a graduate of the United States Army Command and General Staff College and the Program Manager Course at the Defense Systems Management College.

PM J-AIT is the DoD AIT and RFID leader providing global asset tracking, Web-based RF-ITV services, and complete program life cycle support. PM J-AIT products and services are customer driven, instantly accessible, and capable of being updated. PM J-AIT serves as the Executive Agent for RF-ITV infrastructure to DoD and Coalition Partners in support of expeditionary logistics and the Joint Warfighter. PM J-AIT reports directly to the Program Executive Office, Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS) at Fort Belvoir, VA. For more information about PM J-AIT, please refer to our Web site at www.eis.army.mil/AIT.

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