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NJVC Promotes Melvin "Chip" Carr III to VP, Business Development

"Chip Carr possesses more than 17 years in-depth experience serving the geospatial community-including providing several months of direct mission support in theater in Iraq-and is an excellent addition to the NJVC senior staff team," said Jill Bruning, NJVC chief operating officer. "Previously, as NJVC capture manager, Chip successfully positioned NJVC on numerous new business initiatives, and I am confident that in his new role, he will help evolve the company's new business strategy and implementation to great results."

Most recently, Carr was account manager for National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency new business opportunities with Intergraph Corporation in Reston, Va. Earlier, he was account manager with Bentley Systems and geographic information systems manager for Maryland and Washington, D.C., with Bell Atlantic (now Verizon). As an Army officer stationed at Ft. Hood, Texas, Carr was platoon leader and executive officer, 555^th Engineer Company and executive officer, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, III Corps-the largest company in the Army. Upon leaving active duty, he transferred to the Maryland Army National Guard, and later with the Army Reserve was assigned to NGA as an operations officer in the Reserve Management Office. He deployed for NGA in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2005, serving as team leader and geospatial analyst to Special Operations Forces, and received the United States Geospatial-Intelligence Foundation Military Achievement Award that year for his services.

Carr has a bachelor's degree in geography with concentrations in cartography and urban planning from Frostburg State University, Frostburg, Md., and was the department's honor graduate for 1993. He will receive his master's in business administration from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., in 2011.

About NJVC

NJVC is one of the largest information technology solutions providers supporting the U.S. Department of Defense. The company provides quality IT solutions to the federal government and specializes in supporting intelligence, defense and geospatial organizations, including its largest customer, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. NJVC has more than 1,100 employees located in three primary offices in Vienna, Va.; Arnold, Mo.; and O'Fallon, Ill. NJVC also provides distributed technical services to the DoD and the U.S. Intelligence Community around the globe. For more information, visit www.njvc.com.

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Michelle Snyder, 703-893-7609
michelle.snyder@njvc.com