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Software engineer Arthur Johnson’s leadership in the defense technology business culminated in him being named Black Engineer of the Year in 1997. But there was no resting on his laurels after the award. Until his retirement in 2009, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Lockheed Martin’s Information and Services sector and a leader in strategic development. This month, Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation, parent company of consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., appointed Johnson to its board of di- rectors. The retired senior vice president from Lockheed Martin, with over twenty years of senior leadership experience in the information technology and defense businesses, will serve on Booz Allen’s Audit Committee.
“Art brings extensive IT manage- ment experience to Booz Allen’s Board, having held senior positions at IBM, Loral Corporation and Lockheed Mar- tin,” said Ralph W. Shrader, Booz Allen’s chairman, chief executive officer, and president. “His career combines a strong technology background with extensive
experience in the government market that will help guide the firm as we work to enhance the technological expertise we provide our government and commercial clients. He will help build the capabilities of an already strong board, and we look forward to his contributions.” Johnson will serve for a term expir-
ing at Booz Allen’s general meeting of shareholders in the summer of 2013. A graduate of Morehouse College, he spent nearly 40 years developing and managing technological systems before retiring in 2009. Johnson began his professional career as a software engineer with IBM Federal Systems in 1969. As he moved up in the organization, he took on additional technical, software systems, and business management responsi- bilities. He held a series of increasingly responsible managerial positions at IBM facilities around the country until 1991, when he was appointed executive assistant to John Akers, then chairman of the board of IBM. He was appointed president and COO of the IBM Federal Systems Company, and a corporate vice president the following year.
by Frank McCoy
fmccoy@ccgmag.com 1997 BLACK ENGINEER OF THE YEAR APPOINTED TO BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON BOARD
In 1994, IBM sold the division to Loral Corporation, and Johnson was named Group Vice President of Loral Federal Systems. Two years later, Loral merged with Lockheed Martin, and he became Vice President of Lockheed Martin Corp., and President of Lockheed Martin Federal Systems. In 1997, he was named president and COO of the com- pany’s Information and Services Sector, and was also named Black Engineer of the Year.
Johnson served as a leader in stra-
tegic development, retiring in 2009 as Se- nior Vice President of Lockheed Martin Corp. He currently serves as a director of AGL Resources, Inc. and Eaton Corpora- tion, as an Independent Trustee of Fidel- ity Investments, and was the founding chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Defense Industrial Association. His awards and recognitions include Black Engineer of the Year and Govern- ment Computer News Industry Ex- ecutive of the Year. He has a B.A. from Morehouse College and is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.
TURNER TAKES HELM AT SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT AND WORKFORCE
Major General Abraham J. Turner took the helm as Executive Director of the South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce on September 1, 2011. Last May, Governor Nikki Haley announced that she will appoint Maj. Gen. Turner to serve as the Director of the agency. Turner, a South Carolina native and graduate of South Carolina State University, previously served as the commanding general at the largest Initial Entry Training Center in the U.S. Army, responsible for training 50 percent of all soldiers entering the Army each year. He retired from active duty in May 2011.
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“Major General Turner has long- served our country with great distinction, and we couldn’t be more excited that he is coming home to serve our state,” Gov. Haley said. “General Finan has done a fantastic job getting DEW [Department of Employment and Workforce] up-and- running, and Major General Turner is the right person to take the agency to the next level, with a focus on training South Carolinians and pairing them up with the jobs we’re working to create day-in, day- out,” said the governor in May. More recently, Maj. Gen. Turner, a notable alumnus of South Carolina State
University and one of its 2,035 offi- cers, featured as keynote speaker at the university’s Fall Semester 2011 Faculty Development Institute. A former chief of staff for the U.S. Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base, Omaha, Neb., Turner earned his commissioning as an infantry officer through the Reserve Officer Training Corps at SC State University, graduating in 1976 with a Bachelor of Science de- gree in music. While attending the Army War College he earned a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Shippens- burg University.
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