Rich Sherwood is Manager of AMS's DoD Integration Practice in AMS's Acquisition Business Systems Area. Rich's group is responsible for defining standard XML interfaces for AMS's Procurement Desktop-Defense product, the COTS system used by the Standard Procurement System. 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.Rich has been with AMS for four years. During that time he has worked primarily on integration projects including integration products for SPS and projects to integrate AMS products with ERPs. Prior to working for AMS Rich was Assistant Vice President of Program Management for Federal Data Corporation and Director of Development for the Chicago Board Options Exchange.