Criterion Systems, a leading provider of information technology services to government and commercial clients, today announced the appointment of Greg Rothwell to the company's Board of Advisors. During his 34 year career in the federal acquisition community, Mr. Rothwell served in 10 different agencies and was responsible for standing up and growing some of the government’s largest procurement programs and contract vehicles.

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Criterion Systems, a leading provider of information technology services to government and commercial clients, ranked No. 7 on the Washington Business Journal's 2009 list of the "Fastest Growing Companies" in Greater Washington. The annual list recognizes 50 local companies based on revenue growth during a three-year period.

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Criterion HPS Inc. today announced the release of the Phantom, a
computationally dense smart computing platform with a 64-bit, highly-parallel architecture that allows enterprises to overcome the power, space and cooling challenges. With the delivery of the Phantom, the company is responding to industry demands for a green technology that supports computationally intensive workloads without growing the data center footprint.

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Criterion Systems, a leading provider of information technology services to government and commercial clients, welcomes Terry S. Kees, former Information Technology Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), to its Board of Advisors. During her career with the CIA and her subsequent tenure with Lockheed Martin, Ms. Kees has a distinguished record of supporting the intelligence and national security community.

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Citizant (www.citizant.com), a leading provider of professional technical and business solutions to the federal government, today announced that it has hired Jason Hannah to manage the company’s growing portfolio of Justice and law enforcement programs. Hannah brings more than 25 years of management experience to Citizant, including a decade of leadership at Northrop Grumman on programs for the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security (DOJ and DHS), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Chris Kemp, CIO, Ames Research Center, NASA, delivered one of the most highly anticipated keynotes on how Cloud Computing is being used at NASA to help cut costs, increase efficiency, and allow the agency to increase focus on mission critical activities.

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The IJIS Institute, a nonprofit organization established by a shared private-public vision to improve mission-critical information sharing in justice, public safety, and homeland security, hosted a Congressional Briefing on Information Sharing and the Security of our Nation in cooperation with Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro. The briefing, held on Patriot Day, September 11, 2009, was attended by legislative directors and congressional staff, committee and sub-committee staff, high-ranking officials from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (U.S.

Citizant, one of the Washington region’s leading providers of government professional technical solutions, today announced that Anthony (Tony) Martoccia has joined the company. Martoccia brings more than 30 years of federal procurement management experience to the position of Vice President of Contracts. In this position, Martoccia leads the team responsible for Citizant’s contractual and procurement functions. He reports to Ralph Alexander, the company’s chief financial officer.