FRTIB’s Stiffler to step down

After 35 years in government, Larry Stiffler, the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board’s director of automated systems, is retiring July 1. He took over the troubled retirement system in 2001 after the board fired American Management Systems Inc. of Fairfax, Va., for failing to complete the system after four years and at a cost of more than $90 million. He led the team that hired the new contractor, Materials, Communications and Computers Inc. of Alexandria, Va., to take over the project, which was completed in June 2003.