Joseph D. Ludovici has been elevated to director of the U.S. Defense Dept.’s Joint Guam Program Office (JGPO), which is supervising the estimated $11 billion -$15 billion construction effort to relocate more than 18,000 U.S. Marines, family members and others from the Japanese island of Okinawa to Guam. Formerly deputy director, he succeeds David F. Bice , a retired Marine Corps general who is stepping down as JGPO executive director. Bice, in that role since 2007, is also a former Marine Corps inspector general and base commander in Hawaii and Camp Pendleton, Calif. Ludovici, who has been a JGPO executive since 2006, is a 25-year veteran of the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps and former commander of the Navy’s public works center in Guam.
ARCADIS US, the Denver unit of the global engineering services firm based in The Netherlands, has named Robert B. Flowers senior vice president and federal program director. A retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, he was, most recently, CEO of HNTB Federal Services Corp. Flowers is also the Army’s former chief of engineers and former commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He is based in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office.