Al Gough is Strategic Architect for AMS's Acquisition Business Solutions (ABS) organization within the AMS Public Sector Group. He is CTO for the Federal Defense area, and is a member of AMS's CTO Council. ABS delivers e-Government solutions to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and related Defense industries in the procurement and acquisition area. ABS initiatives include the Standard Procurement System (SPS), a 10-year, $300M+ program to provide a single, standard commercial procurement product for 42,000 users at over 900 sites across the entire Department of Defense. ABS has also developed a number of strategic alliances to deliver these solutions within DoD with companies such as webMethods, Sybase, and BEA.With AMS for more than a decade, Al has worked in architecture and technical consulting roles dealing with strategic and technical architecture on some of AMS's largest development projects. Examples include the Royal Saudi Air Defense Force Project overseeing development of common architecture and infrastructure for multiple, integrated applications; the US Navy's Baseline Advanced Industrial Management (BAIM) for planning ship maintenance; the Defense Dental Standard System (DDSS), the first Microsoft Windows NT system to be taken through DII/COE segmentation; and Procurement Desktop/Defense (PD2), the COTS-product foundation of DoD's SPS.He holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in philosophy, focused on analytic philosophy and symbolic logic, from Northern Illinois University and is a Ph.D./ABD in philosophy from the University of North Carolina.