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Wayne McCormick retires

Until his retirement in July 2023, Wayne McCormick supported MIL as site manager for the Next National Geospatial-
Intelligence Agency (NGA) West IT Program (aka N2W) for the past six years. As part of an MIL contract with NAWCAD,
MIL is providing NGA with military construction IT planning and design. Prior to his tenure at MIL, Wayne served the U.S.
Department of Defense for over 30 years in the civil sector, including 20 years in Defense Acquisition Program Management
with nine years serving as a Senior International Acquisition Program Manager in the UK.
Wayne brought a wealth of knowledge to his management role at MIL along with extensive experience in IT infrastructure
support and maintenance, hardware procurement management, and enterprise management gained on hundreds of large-
scale programs, many of which have been valued between $100M -$300M. His projects included supporting NGA’s integrated
libraries, data storage systems, application hosting systems, NSG architecture and IT service programs, foreign military sales,
campus system, and desktop upgrades.
When asked about future plans, Wayne shared that he was looking forward to taking time off with his wife Sandra with a long
vacation planned to tour Niagara Falls, Mt Rushmore, and Yellowstone National Park to name a few.
We wish him the best and thank him for his many years of hard work for his country!

In memoriam

Please join us in remembering and celebrating the lives of two members of MIL’s Charleston, SC team.
David Therien was a valued member of the Systems Interface Team and had just celebrated his
one-year anniversary with MIL before his sudden passing on August 25th. David worked as a Senior
Technical Program Analyst at MIL and was responsible for system and business elicitation and
analysis, creating requirements, design documentation, and other deliverables needed to develop,
test, implement, and maintain software apps for the State Department. With a degree in Economics
from the University of Massachusetts, David brought over 30 years of rich and varied professional
experience to his work at MIL.
Along with bringing joy to the Charleston team as a warm and helpful colleague, outside of MIL
David was a beloved husband, father, brother, uncle, and friend to many. With his wide range of
interests, knowledge, and abilities, David was a true renaissance man—an accomplished tennis
player, a musician (drums and guitar), an itinerant singer/songwriter and recording artist, a social
worker, and creative inventor working on patents for a modified drum pedal and bass drum stand, among his other pursuits. He
will be dearly missed by all who knew him.
Gifts in David's memory may be made to Mary's Meals Bosnia-Herzegovina, Street Pape Ivana Pavla II 29, Medjugorje or on
behalf of his nephew, Peter Johnson, to Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress at 20 Burlington Road, Suite 261, Burlington,
MA 01803.

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