Business and Technical Experience: Over twenty years experience in the Intelligence Community supporting SIGINT, ELINT, COMINT, Space Agencies, Orbital Science, Software Development and System Engineering programs. More than seven years as President & CEO of Adams Communication & Engineering Technology, Incorporated (ACET, Inc.). Charles Adams holds a Computer Science degree from the University of Maryland and a BS degree in Education from West Chester University. From 1983 through early 1987 Mr. Adams served as a Senior Signals Intelligence Analyst at Field Station Berlin in Germany. At the end of his military tenure Mr. Adams received a Meritorious Service Medal for authoring an 130 page all-source intelligence manual outlining his intelligence findings during his 3 ½ year overseas assignment. In 1987, he moved to the Washington, DC. Metropolitan area and began work with TRW as a Software Engineer assigned to the Naval Space Command Center in Washington, DC. In 1990 Mr. Adams joined Lockheed Martin (formerly GE Aerospace) and held positions as a Senior Software Engineer and Principle Systems Engineer, including being certified as a Satellite Engineer. From 1994 to 1997, Mr. Adams served as a Senior Test Engineer and Project Manager for BAE Systems. Between 1997 and 1999, Charles held a Director’s position with CTX (now a division of ManTech). In April of 1999, Charles Adams founded ACET, Inc. Since then, Mr. Adams has grown his corporation to nearly 100 employees serving federal agencies throughout the Intelligence Community (i.e. CIA, DNI, NGA and NSA). |