Mr. Virgil F. McCaleb

Mr. McCaleb, Executive Vice President, has over 30 years experience in engineering, program management, public-private partnerships and major weapons, C3 and IT systems acquisition and budgeting. He is knowledgeable and consults in Clinger Cohen Act compliance, Capital Planning/Justification, Performance Based Acquisition, Risk Management, Program Analysis and Turnaround, Earned Value Management, Public Private Partnerships and Private Finance Initiatives. He recently successfully co-led a $1.5B Public/Private Partnership outsourcing project capture effort.

As a Corporate Principal and Vice President, Strategic Programs at CMS Information Services, he was instrumental in CMS’s 4,000% growth in revenues and helped develop core competencies in web-based, integrated program performance management and financial solutions, and significant capabilities in IT infrastructure design, implementation and support services. He and his team at CMS designed, developed and implemented a web-based earned value management system for a worldwide DoD strategic program to develop vaccines for biological warfare agents.

Mr. McCaleb is a retired U.S. naval officer, having served in engineering and ship acquisition oversight positions and received the degrees of Ocean Engineer and SM in Management from M.I.T. with thesis work in a study of the McNamara era DoD acquisition policies. He also has a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Mexico. He authored “Ship Acquisition Reef Points”, a handbook of lessons learned and guide for acquisition executives for the Naval Sea Systems Command.

Mr. McCaleb has been active for a number of years in the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation and is a member of the Military Officer Association of America (MOAA) formerly TROA.

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