In this position, Mr Collins will be responsible for setting the direction of the entire Department of Defense (DoD) organization, and will report to Todd Leto, senior vice president of sales.

For the past seven years, Mr Collins has been with HP, responsible for growing HP’s DoD business. Most recently, Mr Collins rose to the level of director of army/navy/medical for HP.

Mr Collins holds a bachelor of science degree from Radford University in Radford, Virginia.

Scott Friedlander, president and COO of GTSI, said: Bill Collins brings tremendous enterprise solutions and services experience in managing and growing business activities within defense agencies.