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GD Appoints Kirchmaier To Lead Advance Information Systems

Defense Daily Staff

Friday, June 7th, 2013

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General Dynamics [GD] yesterday said that Thomas Kirchmaier has been appointed president of the Advanced Information Systems business, part of the Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) group. Kirchmaier, 56, succeeds Lewis Von Thaer, who resigned in April. Kirchmaier reports to David Heebner, executive vice president of IS&T. Before his new role, Kirchmaier led the Intelligence Solutions division of GD’s Information Technology (IT) business since 2007. Previous to that, he was senior vice president of GD IT’s Global Information Services, which…

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