FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sent: Friday, June 5, 2009, 4:30AM
To: State and National Media
Metairie, Louisiana – Friday June 5, 2009, 4:30 PM – Diamond Data Systems, LLC. CEO named Chairman of the Stennis-Michoud Aerospace Corridor Alliance
On Friday, May 15 2009 Senator David Vitter along with the Louisiana Department of Economic Development, The Mississippi Development Authority, NASA and industry leaders have taken a big step toward the improvement of the technological and economic improvement of the Gulf Coast region by forming the Stennis-Michoud Aerospace Corridor Alliance. This flexible proactive working group is tasked with addressing the infrastructure, workforce, and other areas of improvement to ensure that the Stennis-Michoud corridor is even more attractive for aerospace and related industries. This group will also help to market the corridor as a national center of excellence in aerospace and related industries on par with Florida, Huntsville and Greater Houston.
Stennis Space Center and the Michoud Assembly Facility are both extremely important to NASA, however, due to their differences in type of work and NASA organizational boundaries, these two centers have not worked cooperatively in the past. The mission of this group is to leverage these two centers and their close geographic proximity for economic development opportunities.
This alliance includes the following members:
- Louisiana Department of Economic Development Secretary Stephen Moret
- Mississippi Development Authority Executive Director Gray Swoop
- GNO, Inc. CEO Michael Hecht
- Partners For Stennis Chairperson Clay Wagner
- Mississippi Gulf Coast Alliance Board Member Larry Barnett
- Louisiana Business and Technology Center Director Charlie D’Agostino
- Hancock County Port and Harbor Director Mike Turner
- Stennis Space Center Director Gene Goldman
- Marshall Space Flight Center Acting Director Robert Lightfoot
- Lockheed-Martin Vice President Manny Zulueta
- Boeing Vice President Jim Chilton
- Pratt-Whitney Rocketdyne Stennis Director Mike McDaniel
- Rolls Royce Manager Mitch Bell
- Teledyne Brown President Rex Geveden
- Jacobs Engineering Vice President Dan Pierre
- Diamond Data Systems LLC, a Geocent company, CEO Dr. Bobby Savoie
- AGT Services Area Manager Jerry Hemphill
Dr. Bobby Savoie, CEO of Diamond Data Systems was named Chairman of the alliance, and Mr. Clay Wagner, President of Hancock Bank, was named Vice Chair of the group.
About Diamond Data Systems
Diamond Data Systems, a Geocent company, is a leading provider of high value IT solutions that include IT strategy, software engineering, network infrastructure design, information assurance, IT contracting and IT outsourcing. Our company can be found on the web at: http://www.diamonddata.com.
POINT OF CONTACT:
Lorena La Motta, Business Development Manager
Lorena.LaMotta@geocent.com
1-800-218-9009