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US BLACK ENGINEER & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
CONTENTS
BRINGING TECHNOLOGY HOME TO THE BLACK COMMUNITY
Volume 30 Number 4
DEPARTMENTS FEATURES
UP FRONT
New identity theft Website launched... In-car naviga-
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Women in the SES: On Networking
The two senior executives profiled illustrate a number 18
tion to warn you of red light cameras... Hi-tech gag gift of ways to forge professional bonds and network to
for a co-worker... New book on the female brain. advancement.
People and Events
NASA’s most diverse
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Careers in Homeland Security
crew yet...‘02 Black
In Rocket Science: Navigating Through the Solar System
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Engineer of the Year is
and FEMA:Using GIS in Disaster Response, a GIS
Delphi’s new President
specialist, a branch chief at FEMA; an engineer, and a
& CEO...’06 Engineer
physicist at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics
leads major line of busi-
Laboratory, talk about what their jobs are like and how
ness...Lloyd G. Trotter
they got there.
moves up to Vice
Chairman of GE Industrial.
USBE & IT’s Most Important Blacks in Tech-
nology for 2007
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ONE-ON-ONE
Meet Booz Allen Hamilton Principal Mel Fulton. With
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Meet and learn from influential Blacks whose responsi-
bilities in technology range from creation and innova-
changes in technology and the culture of the corporate
tion to managing and policy.
world, it takes more than just a degree and a positive
attitude to get things done.
Cover Story: African American Military
THE NEXT LEVEL: SPOTLIGHT ON
ENTREPRENEURS
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Leaders: Different Destinations, Same
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Service
How one Maryland company is incorporating home-
USBE & IT presents some of America’s highest-rank-
land security preparedness strategies into day-to-day
ing Black officers in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine
business.
Corps, and Coast Guard.
JOB HORIZON
The homeland security industry will be worth $180 bil-
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Index of Advertisers
lion by 2015. With thousands of potential jobs backed
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by billions of dollars, find out how can you get a piece .
RECRUITING TRENDS
With the upcoming mass retirements of a huge portion 43
of baby boomers, the biggest vacancies will be found
within government. Find out how the government is
planning on handling this potential job crisis.
ON CAMPUS
What started in 1994 as an informal discussion between
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an engineering professor at Florida A&M-Florida State
University and an aerospace executive has evolved into a
relationship that may alter the future of air transportation.
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