Decision Sciences Appoints New CEO and COO

Decision Sciences International Corporation (DSIC), a technology provider of security and detection systems, has appointed Dr. Gene W. Ray, former CEO of Titan Corporation, as interim Chief Executive Officer and Admiral Jay M. Cohen (USN, Ret), former Undersecretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as interim Chief Operating Officer. Both appointments are effective in January 2015 when current DSIC President & CEO Dr. Stanton Sloane assumes a leadership position in the telecommunications equipment industry.

 

Dr. Ray currently serves on the DSIC Board of Directors and is a very successful businessman and entrepreneur with extensive experience in technology, defense and government relations. He cofounded and led Titan Corporation, a foremost provider of comprehensive information and communication products, services and solutions for national security, as its Chairman, President and CEO for 24 years. Prior to that Dr. Ray served as Executive Vice President of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) for 11 years.

 

Admiral Cohen, also a member of the DSIC Board, is a principal of The Chertoff Group. He spent 38 years with the U.S. Navy including as the Chief of Naval Research, in which capacity he was responsible for the annual $2 billion+ Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology (S&T) Program which involved basic research to applied technology portfolios and contracting and coordinating investments with other U.S. and international providers to rapidly meet war fighter combat needs. Capping off his Naval career, Admiral Cohen was appointed Undersecretary for DHS S&T where he was credited with the transformation of the office of Science & Technology in just two short years putting the people and programs in place to prosecute the high-tech war on terror.

 

MMPDS uses naturally occurring cosmic ray muons to safely and securely scan all types of vehicles, cargo containers and other conveyances to detect shielded and unshielded nuclear and radiological threats, as well as explosives, narcotics and other contraband. The technology is based on research originally conducted at Los Alamos National Laboratory and incorporates a substantial portfolio of enabling intellectual property developed by DSIC.