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Government

Navy Rear Adm. Charles T. Bush has been assigned as director of theater air and missile defense, program executive office, theater surface combatants.

Navy Rear Adm. Robert E. Cowley is being assigned as deputy for acquisition and business management for the office of the assistant secretary of the navy for research, development and acquisition. Cowley currently is serving as assistant commander for contracts, AIR-2.0, Naval Air Systems Command, in Patuxent River, Md.

Navy Rear Adm. David M. Stone is being assigned as commander of the Mine Warfare Command in Corpus Christi, Tex. Stone currently is serving as commander of Cruiser Destroyer Group Five.

The president intends to nominate Christopher Bancroft Burnham to be chief financial officer at the department of state. Burnham is presently the chairman and chief executive officer for InviteUSA.com, a company he founded in early 2000. Previously, he served as vice chairman international of the Pacific Investment Management Funds Company and president and chief executive officer of Columbus Circle Investors.

The president also assigned Army Secretary Thomas E. White as acting assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low intensity conflict.

The Department of Defense has announced the selections of Philip Wayne Grone to be the principal assistant deputy undersecretary of defense (installations and environment) and John Paul Woodley to be the assistant deputy undersecretary of defense (environment).

Grone will serve as Ray DuBois's chief of staff with management and oversight responsibilities for military installations worldwide. Prior to this position, he served as deputy staff director for the House Armed Services Committee, as well as staff director of the military installations and facilities subcommittee.

Woodley will serve as the principal assistant and advisor to DuBois for all environmental, safety and occupational health policies and programs in the department. Woodley comes to the department from the Virginia state government, where he served as secretary of natural resources since 1998.

Industry

Smiths Aerospace, in Grand Rapids, Mich., has appointed Gen. John R. Dailey, USMC (Ret.) as an outside director to the aerospace board of directors. In this role, Dailey will be a board member for the U. S. business Smiths Aerospace, Inc., a part of Smiths Group Inc., and will provide guidance and direction for the Aerospace Division. Dailey, a retired pilot, assumed the duties of director of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., in January 2000. Dailey was previously associate deputy administrator with NASA, where he led the agency's reinvention activities since retiring from the Marines in 1992.

Government Technology Solutions, a leading supplier of security software solutions, has announced that Dennis Burford has been appointed as the company's new West Coast government manager. Burford will be responsible for managing gTech's security solutions to federal and state government customers in the Western region.

GenCorp, headquartered in Sacramento, Calif., has announced that Terry Hall has been promoted to chief financial officer of the corporation. Hall joined GenCorp in May 1999 from U. S. Airways, where he was senior vice president.

Douglas Patterson has been named director of marketing for Vista Controls, a Lau Defense Systems company located in Santa Clarita, Calif. Patterson brings with him more than 15 years' experience in business development, product management and technical and communications accomplishments in the field of harsh environment electronics.

Decision Systems Technologies, of Rockville, Md., announced the appointment of Adele G. Gill as vice president of its information systems group. Gill joined the company in May 2000 as director of the group.

The firm also named Jeffrey Vigne vice president of business development. Vigne has nearly 10 years of experience in the information-technology industry. Previously, he served as business development director with Computer Technologies Services Inc., and as business development manager with Future Enterprises, of Washington, D. C.

Richard Busch joins the law firm of Lathrop & Gage in Boulder, Colo., concentrating his practice on government contract law. Busch has more than 20 years of legal experience with government contracts, commercial contracts, conflict management systems design and white collar crime. Prior to joining the firm, Busch served as a senior corporate general counsel with Lockheed Martin Corporation and a legal advisor to the director of contracts at the National Security Agency.

Racal Instruments has announced the appointment of Terry Smith as vice president of the Military-Aerospace Test Group, based in San Antonio, Tex. Smith has more than 14 years' experience developing and managing technical programs. He served as program manager and director of automatic test systems for CACI before joining Racal Instruments.

Racal Instruments also announced the promotion of Tim Ostrosky to the position of director of sales in Irvine, Calif. Ostrosky has more than 20 years in engineering and sales experience with both Hughes Aircraft and Racal Instruments.

Intevac Inc., has announced the appointment of Norman Pond as chief of executive offices. Pond was a founder of the company and served as CEO from 1991 though July 2000.

L-3 Communications, located in Anaheim, Calif., announced that Robert Huffman has been named president of its Interstate Electronics Corporation (IEC) subsidiary. Huffman replaces Richard Tierney, who is retiring. Huffman has more than 17 years of experience in aerospace management, marketing and engineering.

Miriam Dudenhefer has joined BarcoView, located in Duluth, Georgia, as marketing communications manager. Dudenhefer has six years of combined marketing, advertising and graphics design experience in various U.S. companies.