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Togo D. West Jr. has been a director since July 2000. Mr. West currently serves as Chairman of TLI Leadership Group which offers limited strategic advice on national or homeland security issues. From December 2004 to May 2006 Mr. West served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies a nonprofit research and public policy institution. Previously Mr. West was an attorney with the law firm of Covington & Burling in Washington D.C. where he was of counsel to the firm from 2000 to 2004 and was a partner with the law firm of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP from 1981 to 1990. Mr. West served as Secretary of Veterans Affairs and a member of President Clinton’s Cabinet from 1998 to 2000 and served as Secretary of the Army from 1993 to 1998. From 1990 to 1993 Mr. West was Senior Vice President for Government Relations of the Northrop Corporation an aerospace and defense systems company. Mr. West has been General Counsel of the Department of Defense General Counsel of the Department of the Navy and has served with the U.S. Department of Justice. Mr. West currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Bowater Incorporated a paper products company. | 