Ira C. Queen is currently
the Director of the DRS Technologies’ Wright-Patterson Office. Ira joined DRS in
November 2008 and was hand selected
to reorganize and refocus the business efforts of the Wright-Patterson Office.
Prior to joining DRS Ira was working as part of a U.S. Department
of State’s Security Sector Reform effort in Southern Sudan. The program was
designed to help the Government of Southern Sudan with institutional
reforms in order to improve civilian control of the military, transparency and
accountability of the government, reduce poverty and improve human
security. Ira has also worked as a Foreign Affairs Officer for the Department of
State leading interagency counter-proliferation efforts in the Caucasus
and Black Sea Region of the Former Soviet Union. Finally, Ira spent 22 years in
the U.S. Army where he served as an Infantry Officer, Special Forces
Officer and Foreign Area Officer, all of which helped him to become an expert in
Foreign Military Sales and International Business Development.
Ira as lived and served on six continents and is a service disabled veteran. Ira
is a lifetime member of the Beavercreek Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW)
and Xenia Disabled American Veterans (DAV). He is also an At-Large Member of
Dayton Defense and a member of the Beavercreek Rotary Club.
His wife is a teacher in Fairborn, his daughter is on a ROTC scholarship at the
University of Cincinnati and his son is a Junior at Beavercreek High
School.
