What Happened?
Mc Lean, VA-based SAIC hired Amy Alving as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
Science Applications International Corporation is a premier technology integrator providing full life cycle services and solutions in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC is Redefining Ingenuity through its deep customer and domain knowledge to enable the delivery of systems engineering and integration offerings for large, complex projects. SAIC`s approximately 15,000 employees are driven by integrity and mission focus to serve customers in the U.S. federal government. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $4.5 billion.
About the Person
Amy Alving joined Science Applications International Corporation in 2005 as the Chief Technology Officer for the Engineering, Training and Logistics Group, and later served as the corporate chief scientist. Prior to joining SAIC Alving served as the director of the Special Projects Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, where she was a member of the Senior Executive Service. In this role she was responsible for strategic planning, operations, finances, security, program development and execution. Alving was a White House Fellow (1997-98) serving at the Department of Commerce. Prior to that, she was an associate professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Minnesota, where she taught graduate and undergraduate students in mechanics, fluids, and experimental methods, served as a thesis advisor to graduate students and conducted independent, basic research. Alving graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in mechanical engineering and from Princeton University with a Ph.D. in mechanical and aerospace engineering. She carried out post-doctoral research in Berlin, Germany.
Info Source
News
Short Profile