New Board Member for ORBIMAGE

ORBIMAGE Inc. (VA, USA) has announced that The Hon. James M. Simon, Jr., has joined the board of directors of its parent company, ORBIMAGE Holdings, Inc. Following a distinguished career with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Mr. Simon now serves as the founding director of the Microsoft Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments located in Reston (VA, USA).

A career CIA officer, Mr. Simon was appointed by President Clinton and confirmed by the Senate in 1999 as the first assistant director of Central Intelligence for Administration, a position he held until retirement in 2003. As deputy to the deputy director of Central Intelligence for Community Management, he was responsible for setting policy for and overseeing the budgets of the 14 agencies that comprise the Intelligence Community. After September 11th, he was designated as the senior intelligence official for homeland security establishing and chairing the Homeland Security Intelligence Council.

Currently Mr. Simon is the founding director of the Microsoft Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments.