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During his tenure, he was nationally recognized for directing several innovative studies of large-scale national space programs. He was instrumental in the development of some of the nation’s most important national collection architectures. Hoskins participated in several national-level commissions, including service as a principal drafter of the 1992 Woolsey Blue Ribbon Panel Report. In recognition of his contributions to the intelligence community, he received the Distinguished Intelligence Service Medal from the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Bronze Medallion from the director of the National Security Agency and two Defense Superior Service Medals from the secretary of defense.
In 1994, Hoskins joined Scitor Corporation, one of the nation’s leading providers of engineering services to the intelligence community, as director of special projects. He quickly rose to president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board. His vision, leadership and experience led to the growth of Scitor’s annual revenue from $16 million to more than $600 million today with more than 1,400 employees. He was also the architect, strategist and leader of a major company restructuring that resulted in moving headquarters and company operations from California to Virginia, leading the way to making Scitor Corporation a 100 percent employee-owned company.
The company has received several awards including recognition from Inc. magazine as a national grand champion for customer satisfaction, the MCI Positive Performer Grand National Award, the Companies as Responsive Employers Award and a top 10 placement on the Fortune magazine list of “Best Companies to Work for in America.”
Hoskins is a founding member of the Auburn Research & Development Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to furthering scientific and engineering research. He serves on the Auburn Alumni Engineering Council and is a member of the Ginn Society, the Engineering Keystone Society and the Engineering Eagles Society.
He holds the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Outstanding Alumnus Award and in 2012, was elected to the board of the Auburn University Foundation.
Donald W. Vaughn earned his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Auburn in 1971 while working part-time with the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) as a survey crew member. In his career of more than 46 years with ALDOT, Vaughn was committed to excellence in transportation and made an enormous impact on the lives of Alabamians. In 2012, he retired as chief engineer and deputy director of the organization.
Vaughn also served as assistant chief engineer, interstate environmental engineer, location engineer, assistant chief of the design bureau, bureau chief of the office engineer bureau and administrative engineer to the transportation director. He was appointed deputy director in 2003 and named chief engineer in 2005. In these roles, he directed a program that contracted more than $600 million in construction and maintenance projects each year and was responsible for an additional $135 million in annual maintenance operations. He managed 11,000 miles of highway and more than 5,600 bridges. Vaughn helped identify future financial limitations and made changes to ALDOT’s priorities. With insufficient state and federal funding, he focused resources on preservation of the state’s transportation infrastructure.
