Joe Sifer is a Booz Allen Hamilton Senior Vice President with 25 years of experience in technology and management consulting in mission and business systems for US government and global commercial clients. Mr. Sifer leads Booz Allen's Army business. Previously he led the firm's Army technology and Army mission readiness business; and was a leader the firm's cloud-based services and engineering services/rapid prototyping and platform integration investments. Mr. Sifer was a Vice President based in London where he led the firm’s telecommunications technology business for commercial clients in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and shared in its leadership across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Prior to his tenure in London, Mr. Sifer played a key leadership role in establishing and expanding Booz Allen’s US federal government wireless consulting business. Before joining the firm, he worked as a senior technologist at A.T. Kearney (subsequently EDS), a project engineer at The Aerospace Corporation, and a research engineer for the NASA-Ames Research Center. Mr. Sifer has extensive experience in technology and management consulting for projects involving telecommunications, C4ISR, and networking; communications and remote sensing satellites; wireless and advanced RF systems; embedded electronics and avionics; IT infrastructure, computing, and enterprise systems and operations; and advanced concepts such as rapid prototyping, cloud computing, cyber operations, and interoperability. Mr. Sifer has been a member of several professional associations and in 2010 received the Career Achievement Award as Outstanding Networking Professional from the Network Professionals Association. He is currently serving a three-year term on the University of Notre Dame’s Industry Advisory Council for the College of Engineering’s Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science & Engineering. Mr. Sifer has a B.S. degree with highest honors in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame, an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and am M.A. degree in technology and public policy from the George Washington University. He is a member of the Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Pi Alpha Alpha honor societies and has received several citations and awards during his academic and professional careers.