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Carl G. O’Berry
Vice President, Strategic
Architecture,
Boeing Integrated Defense Systems
 Carl O’Berry is vice president of the Boeing Strategic
Architecture organization in Anaheim, California, reporting to Jim Albaugh,
president and chief executive officer of Boeing Integrated Defense Systems.
O’Berry is responsible for directing the developm ent and application
of a Boeing-wide strategic communication and information architecture
that will ensure and certify interoperability of all programs for IDS
and The Boeing Company.
Under O’Berry’s leadership, the Strategic Architecture (SA)
organization concentrates on architecture development, demonstration,
modeling, simulation and distribution aimed at improving customers’ mission
effectiveness — both internal to Boeing and in other government,
industry and civil venues. SA is also responsible for demonstrating the
principles and practice of Net-Centric and Effects-Based Operations and
educating Boeing leadership, engineers, program management and design
teams, as well as and IDS customers, on the value of Net-Centric and
network-enabled operations.
Previously, O’Berry served as vice president and general manager
of the Government Information & Communications Systems (GI&CS)
business segment. In that capacity, he was responsible for leveraging
systems-of-systems technologies into numerous market areas, such as global
positioning/navigation systems, airborne early warning and control systems,
integrated battle management systems and information operations.
O’Berry joined Boeing after three years with the Motorola Space
and Systems Technology Group, where he was vice president and director
of planning and information technology. Before accepting the position
at Motorola, he managed several large-scale Department of Defense command,
control and communication and R&D programs and commanded several
U.S. Air Force organizations, including the Rome Air Development Center.
He retired in the grade of Lieutenant General in 1995 after more than
38 years of service in the U.S. Air Force.
In his last Air Force assignment, O’Berry served as
deputy chief of staff, Command, Control, Communications and Computers
(C4), at U.S.
Air Force Headquarters in Washington D.C., where he was responsible for
operational policy affecting more than 55,000 U.S. Air Force C4 personnel,
and C4 systems valued at approximately $16 billion.
O’Berry holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering
from New Mexico State University and a master of science degree in systems
management from the Air Force Institute of Technology.
O’Berry and his wife, Charlene, both natives of Lansing, Michigan,
have two daughters and three sons.
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