Edgewood, MD--Smiths Detection named Sal Cipres as its head of global programs, which oversees all Smiths Detection. Smiths Detection develops products that help detect and identify explosives and chemicals, biological agents and weapons, radiological and nuclear threats, narcotics, and contraband. Cipres will lead the development of proposal strategies and the delivery of products and systems to major government customers within cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters. He is the former general manager of Smith Detection's Edgewood, MD, facility and director of global chemical and biological programs.
Smiths Detection president Mal Maginnis said, "Sal's appointment reinforces Smiths Detection's continued role as a global leader in security technology, detection systems and services. He has demonstrated strong leadership, an ability to build high-performance teams, and a good understanding of our customers' needs. Bringing this experience to his new position will further support our commitment to deliver leading security and defense solutions and maximum value to the governments and agencies we serve worldwide."
Before joining the Edgewood, MD, facility, Cipres was a part of Smiths Detection's Pasadena, CA, program management team where he was responsible for program and technology development. Prior to Smiths Detection, Cipres worked at BAE Systems, Dell Computer, and Eaton Semiconductor.
SOURCE: Smiths Detection; www.smithsdetection.com/1025_6379.php
Gail Overton | Senior Editor (2004-2020)
Gail has more than 30 years of engineering, marketing, product management, and editorial experience in the photonics and optical communications industry. Before joining the staff at Laser Focus World in 2004, she held many product management and product marketing roles in the fiber-optics industry, most notably at Hughes (El Segundo, CA), GTE Labs (Waltham, MA), Corning (Corning, NY), Photon Kinetics (Beaverton, OR), and Newport Corporation (Irvine, CA). During her marketing career, Gail published articles in WDM Solutions and Sensors magazine and traveled internationally to conduct product and sales training. Gail received her BS degree in physics, with an emphasis in optics, from San Diego State University in San Diego, CA in May 1986.