Media Note: This is a news release from The Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC), of which The Boeing Company is a founding member.
Washington, DC, Dec. 05, 2005 -- Former Lieutenant General, USAF Harry D. Raduege, Jr., of IBM has been elected vice chair of the executive council of the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC). Raduege assumes the position held by Lorraine Martin of Lockheed Martin, who served as the NCOIC's vice chair for one year and became NCOIC executive chair in October.
"As the former director of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), I have always believed in the concept of this NCO industry consortium," Raduege said. "The NCOIC is a unique undertaking that can be used to develop common understanding, recommend common standards, and shorten acquisition cycles as it saves resources used to build integrated and interoperable network solutions, capabilities, and services. My work at IBM directly ties to NCO solutions, and I look forward to becoming more deeply involved in the direction of the NCOIC."
As a member of the Strategic Business Relationships Team at IBM, Raduege focuses on the strategy, importance, and evolving nature of net-centric operations across war-fighting, intelligence, and business applications. With 35 years of active-duty military service, Raduege spent five years as the director of DISA, and was also commander of the Joint Task Force for Global Network Operations, deputy commander of Global Network Operations and Defense for the United States Strategic Command, and manager of the National Communications System, the latter a position he held for three years just prior to those responsibilities being transferred to the Department of Homeland Security. His organizational duties included engineering, acquiring, and maintaining interoperable, integrated command, control, communications and computer (C4) and intelligence systems in support of U.S. national objectives. He was also responsible for directing the operations and defense of the global information grid to ensure the existence of reliable and secure net-centric capabilities across strategic, operational and tactical boundaries in support of all U.S. Department of Defense operations.
Leadership positions in the NCOIC are held for a period of one year, after which vice chairs assume the role of chair, and chairs become chair emeriti. The NCOIC consists of three primary councils: executive, technical and business. The executive council is chaired by Lockheed Martin, with IBM's Raduege as the newly elected vice chair. The technical council is currently chaired by an IBM representative, co-chaired by a Boeing representative, and the business council is chaired by an Oracle representative and co-chaired by a Sun Microsystems representative. All appointments are made via a general election process.