Booz Allen Hamilton Senior Vice President John A. Thomas Has Been Elected The Future Leader of The International Council of Systems Engineering (INCOSE)

Thomas to fulfill a vision of growth and recognition for the systems engineering profession.

December 16, 2009, McLean, VA —The members of the International Council of Systems Engineering (INCOSE) have elected Booz Allen Hamilton Senior Vice President John A. Thomas to serve as its future leader.  Mr. Thomas was elected “President-elect” to succeed the president in two years time. This is the first time a candidate from Booz Allen has been nominated to lead the prestigious 7,000-member systems engineering organization, which serves as the collective voice for members of the profession worldwide.

Mr. Thomas has pledged to help expand the organization’s membership base, position systems engineering professionals as leaders in system development projects, gain greater recognition among system development managers for the roles systems engineering professionals fulfill on teams, and overall, demonstrate the value of systems engineering to the success of large, complex projects.

Booz Allen, a strategy and technology consulting firm, has nearly 200 staff who belong to INCOSE, many of whom serve in leadership at the local chapter level and within the organization’s working groups.  Booz Allen also has the distinction of having the most INCOSE-Certified Systems Engineering Professionals, CSEPs.

Seattle-based INCOSE disseminates systems engineering knowledge, promotes international collaboration, assures scaleable professional standards, improves the status of systems engineers, and encourages government, academic and industry support for research and educational programs.

“John’s election formally recognizes our commitment to the systems engineering profession, one that is critical to our own success in helping clients develop large, complex systems,” Booz Allen Executive Vice President Ken Wiegand said, the leader of Booz Allen’s Systems Engineering and Integration practice. “John has helped us grow our practice over the past two decades, and I have every confidence his skills and passion for the field will contribute to the success of INCOSE.”