The Legend of the Titan Corporation

by Jeffrey L. Rodengen, Richard T. Hubbard

Overview

In 1981, with the Cold War in High gear and Pentagon budgets climbing, three highly trained and well-connected friends, Gene Ray, Ed Knauf, and Jack McDougall, envisioned a bright future in their own defense contracting business. After a modest beginning, their company was on its way to becoming a defense powerhouse when the Soviet Union, archenemy of the United States for more than 40 years, crumbled with astonishing speed, and U.S. defense spending dwindled in response. Many defense contractors foundered, but the turn of history only triggered phase two of The Titan Corporation's American success story. The stock price of defense companies began a downward slide, and though much of Titan's business was involved with C[superscript 3]I contracts, it could not escape the "taint of the Star Wars brush." As the government pulled back on defense spending, Ray and the company's other leaders shrewdly moved Titan's technologies into commercial markets. At the same time, Titan made strategic acquisitions to round out its project capabilities and put a sharper focus on C[superscript 3]I (command, control, communications, and intelligence) technology -- one of the few defense segments that escaped the Pentagon's budget cuts. Titan also began to diversify by exploring new technologies with potential commercial application. The Legend of The Titan Corporation, by Jeffrey L. Rodengen and Richard F. Hubbard, tells how intelligence, ingenuity, and hard work have built Gene Ray's Titan into a giant in fields as diverse as information solutions and services for the U.S. government, e-business solutions, and electron beam irradiation technology, which destroys harmful pathogens on medical devices, food -- even the U.S. mail. Carefully researched and packed with telling photos, this highly readable history captures the patriotism and purpose of a legendary American corporation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780945903901
Publisher:	Write Stuff Enterprises, Incorporated
Publication date:	11/28/2002
Edition description:	WRITE STUFF SYNDICATE, INC.
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	9.16(w) x 11.20(h) x 0.65(d)

Table of Contents

	Introduction	vi
	Acknowledgments	viii
Chapter I	Starting Small	10
Chapter II	The Early Years	22
Chapter III	Merging into the Fast Lane	30
Chapter IV	A Shifting World	44
Chapter V	Meeting the Challenge	54
Chapter VI	Innovation and Entrepreneurship	64
Chapter VII	Creating Value	74
Chapter VIII	Maximizing Value	86
Chapter IX	Titan to the Rescue	100
	Notes to Sources	132
	Index	138