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Speaker Biographies
Pages 46-51

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From page 46...
... General Services Administration, is responsible for governmentwide management direction in a wide range of advanced electronic con~n~erce programs. Among his current activities, he heads an interagency steering committee in designing, developing, and publishing on the Internet the electronically shared databases necessary for electronic contracting for the $200 billion of supplies and services required annually by the federal government.
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From page 47...
... These include assistant public works officer and assistant resident officer in charge of construction, in Argentia, Newfoundland; deputy resident officer and assistant officer in charge of construction, in Fallon, Nevada; deputy officer in charge of contracts and assistant public works officer at the Naval Submarine Base, in Kings Bay, Georgia; and environmental and public works department head at Engineering Field Activity in Washington, D.C. Commander Grover received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Iowa and a master's degree in civil engineering from Texas A&M University.
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From page 48...
... In his career, Lt. Colonel McFarren has also served as a senior scientist for the Air Combat Command at Langley Air Force Base, a research analyst at Armstrong Laboratories at Wnght-Patterson Air Force Base, an intercontinental ballistics missile combat crew commander instructor at Grand Forks Air Force Base, and an assistant professor of aerospace studies at Cornell University.
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From page 49...
... She was chair of the DOD electronic commerce in contracting process action team, established by the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition Reform, a group chartered to develop a comprehensive implementation plan for DOD. The team included representatives from all relevant entities, who worked fi~-t~me to analyze existing components of EC/ED} contracting Initiatives, determine the associated risks and benefits, establish the educational requirements, and assess the costs associated with the plan.
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From page 50...
... Troyan engineered and built extensive communications facilities throughout Alaska and managed one of the Army's earliest large-scale data reduction centers for digital computer processing of radar, telemetry, film, and oscillographic information. As a department head, he developed and expanded curricula at the Department of Defense Computer Institute (now the Information Resources Management College of Idle National Defense University)
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From page 51...
... Wev instructs business owners and government officials about how to do business with the federal government using electric commerce. He has been the general tutorials chair for the last Free Continuous Acquisition and Life-Cycle Support (CALS)
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  • naval facilities
  • air logistics
  • resident officer

  • assistant public
  • logistics center
  • facilities council
  • contracts policy
  • engineering command

  • department head
  • federal facilities
  • acquisition regulation
  • standards management
  • data interchange

  • colonel mcfarren
  • engineering division
  • engineering management
  • division chief
  • civil service

  • air combat
  • defense information
  • facilities evaluation
  • commander grover
  • reporting functions

  • commerce resource
  • council procurement
  • activities accomplished
  • federal information
  • interagency steering


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