Northup Grumman“™s Hugh Taylor Wins IT Award

Northrop Grumman“™s Hugh Taylor has recently been named one of 2008“™s Most Important Blacks in Technology by the editors of U.S. Black Engineer and Information Technology magazine.

Taylor is the former Northrop Grumman Chief Information Officer overseeing more than $1 billion in IT assets, processes and personnel. Now, in his role as Interim President of the Civilian Agencies business group, Taylor provides IT services to federal agencies such as Health and Human Services, the Department of Justice, and Department of Homeland Security.

This is not the first technology award for Taylor, who has been working at Northrop Grumman for over twenty years. At the 2007 Black Engineer of the Year conference, he received the Technical Sales and Marketing award, which acknowledges exceptional leadership in the development, marketing and sale of cutting-edge technologies.

Read the full U.S. Black Engineer and IT Magazine here.