Mr. George H. Ohanian

Mr. Ohanian currently serves as the Chief of the Military and Civil Survey and Engineering Branch within the U.S. Army Geospatial Center (AGC), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) as well as the Product Director, Combat Terrain Information Systems (PD CTIS) (an Army Acquisition program). Within these two roles, Mr. Ohanian leads various activities that include a wide variety of programmatic, research, development and engineering projects for the Corps of Engineers and the Department of the Army to support Military and Civilian end users. Mr. Ohanian possess over 25 years of experience in program and project management, strategic and operational planning, and organizational leadership.  I have expertise with demonstrated success in establishing vision, leading organizations, developing investment strategies, identifying and capturing business opportunities and establishing strategic organizational objectives and plans, formulating and implementing policies, planning and executing programs, and managing resources. His background and experiences are very diverse, having served at strategic, operational and tactical levels, in multiple commercial industries, academia, not-for profit organizations and the Department of Defense. Within USACE, Mr. Ohanian is responsible for the National Inventory of Dams (NID) data base, Inland Electronic Navigational Charts (IENC) program, Civil Survey Training Leads that perform survey training at all districts, USMART survey database to capture and share all USACE surveys in an online tool Further, he is responsible to the Director, AGC for the management of the geospatial engineering programs assigned by the Program Executive Officer, Intelligence, Electronic Warfare & Sensors (PEO IEW&S). In this position, Mr. Ohanian executes a myriad of managerial, programmatic and technical functions to meet the AGC and PEO IEWS priorities and requirements as well as ensure delivery of all required capabilities that meet military survey and recon requirements. Previously, Mr. Ohanian was assigned as the DISA Joint System Engineering Office (JSEIO) Program Manager with responsibility for overseeing the execution of a diverse set of unclassified and classified portfolio of acquisition, business and program activities supporting nuclear command, control and communication capabilities that enabled senior leader decision making. Previous to this position and within DISA, Mr. Ohanian was the Chief of the Business Management Office for the Global Combat and Control System- Joint (JCCS-J) an ACAT 1 AC MAIS program. In this position Mr. Ohanian, lead a large team of business, contract, and administrative staff that managed the budget, contracts, and all required reporting to Congress, DISA leadership the Joint GCCS-J user community. Mr. Ohanian has extensive in-depth technical, managerial and operational experience within the Federal Government, Local Government, Commercial Industry (private and public), Higher Education, and the Utility Industry. Further, he has functional and hands on experience in the development, fielding and management of highly complex technical commercial and government systems used to support Geospatial, Financial, Environmental, and Communication problem sets. Mr. Ohanian has an undergraduate degree from the University of Maryland and a graduate degree from George Washington University, is DAIWA Level IV certified in Project Management. He is married to Dr. Michelle Ohanian, has 2 daughters and resides in Fairfax County.