Cambridge International Systems Taps Industry Veteran for Major Capture Effort
Aaron Tilock to Position Company for DISA's GSM-ETI RFP
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Cambridge International Systems, Inc., a leading provider of C4ISR solutions for the government's most demanding national security and capacity-building needs, announced today that it has appointed Aaron Tilock as vice president of its Mission Solutions business unit. In this role, Tilock will also lead the capture effort for the upcoming Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) GSM-ETI contract.
Cambridge's Mission Solutions business unit provides full lifecycle IT and telecommunications engineering, implementation and operations services to select federal customers in the national security space. As business unit leader, Tilock will be responsible for strategic planning and execution, program operations, IT service management and customer relationship management for Mission Solutions customers. He will report directly to Chris Sentimore, president of Cambridge International Systems.
Tilock joins Cambridge with 15 years of government contracting, program management, and financial management experience. Most recently, he served as a vice president and senior program manager at SAIC, where he was responsible for account management, capture and proposal management, and technical, cost and schedule performance management under multiple contracts supporting DISA's Global Command and Control System – Joint (GCCS-J) and Defense Information System Network (DISN). Tilock is also a former contracting officer with DISA's Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization (DITCO). He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) through the Project Management Institute, is ITIL v3 Foundation certified, and has been trained as a Six Sigma Green Belt and Program Management Professional (PgMP).
GSM-ETI is scheduled to be released by DISA later this year, with the award tentatively scheduled for 2011. According to FedBizOpps, the contract will be for performance-based services in support of engineering, transition/implementation, integration, connection approval and IT service management activities for existing DISN networking capabilities.
"We welcome Aaron to our leadership team with great excitement," said Dr. Kimberly Harokopus, chief executive officer of Cambridge. "His deep expertise in program management, as well as his extensive knowledge of the critical requirements of national security needs, make him the ideal leader for our Mission Solutions business unit and GSM-ETI capture team. He will contribute greatly to our ongoing effort to better serve our federal customers with leading C4ISR solutions."
Tilock earned a bachelor's degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Minnesota and has completed graduate studies from the Joint Military Intelligence College.
About Cambridge International Systems
Cambridge corporate headquarters are located just outside Washington, D.C. in Alexandria, VA. Primary regional offices are located in San Diego, CA and Tampa, FL. The company also has an engineering office in Panama City, Panama, a wholly-owned subsidiary in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and test and integration facility in Hazleton, PA. Cambridge is an ISO 9001 certified company. The company is privately held.
SOURCE Cambridge International Systems, Inc.
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