FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA – September 12, 2002 – RTI is pleased and honored to announce that Daniel Young has joined RTI’s Board of Advisors.
Daniel R. Young, former Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Federal Data Corporation (FDC), retired recently after having served the company in various executive capacities for more that two decades. He joined FDC in 1976 as the Executive Vice President, and in 1985, was elected President and Chief Operating Officer. Following the acquisition in 1995 of FDC by The Carlyle Group, Mr. Young assumed the position of President and Chief Executive Officer. In 1998, he was elected Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Before joining FDC, Mr. Young was an executive with Data Transmission Company. He ultimately became Executive Vice President, and, prior to that, held various engineering, sales and management positions at Texas Instruments, Inc. He also served in the U.S. Navy as a sea officer.
Mr. Young was a recipient of the 1998 Federal Computer Week Eagle Award. Two individuals receive the award each year - one from government and one from industry. Mr. Young received this prestigious award for making outstanding contributions to the federal information technology community. He was commended for championing government/industry partnerships while successfully reinventing FDC through the successful acquisitions of NYMA, Inc. Sylvest Management Systems Corporation and four other companies over an 11-month period.
In 1990 and 1994, Mr. Young received the Federal Computer Week Federal 100 Award that goes to a select group of executives from government, industry and academia, as determined by an independent panel of judges, to have had a significant impact on the government information and telecommunication systems community. He later served as a Judge for the Eagle Award in 1995 and 1997.
Mr. Young is a graduate of the University of Texas where he earned a B.S. degree in engineering and a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law.
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