BBN Technologies, an advanced technology and research and development firm, today announced that James C. O'Connor has been promoted to Executive Vice President. O'Connor has been employed at BBN Technologies for 33 years, joining the company shortly after earning an M.S. in Ocean Engineering at MIT. Most recently, O'Connor managed BBN's Decision and Security Technologies department. Previously, O'Connor was the Deputy Director of the Maritime Systems and Technologies department in BBN's Washington office. As Executive Vice President, O'Connor will oversee two BBN business units and will divide his time between the Arlington, VA; Cambridge, MA; and Columbia, MD offices.

Tad Elmer, president and CEO, BBN Technologies, said, "Jim combines great strength of character with demonstrated mastery of nearly every part of BBN's business. This makes him ideally suited to the challenges of his new position."

About BBN Technologies
BBN Technologies, an advanced technology solutions firm, is focused on solving some of the world's most pressing problems. From national security, information security, speech recognition and language translation, to integrating disparate systems and networks, BBN has been at the forefront of technological change for over 50 years. Known for pioneering the development of the ARPANET, the forerunner of the Internet, BBN continues to create advances in Internet and networking technologies through its work on ad hoc networking, the semantic web, quantum communications, and advanced protocols. Building on its substantial list of firsts, BBN operates the first metro quantum cryptography network, the first real-time foreign broadcast monitoring system, and has developed the world's first stereoscopic digital mammography system. For more information on BBN Technologies, visit www.bbn.com.