American Systems, a federal IT and engineering company, has appointed Joe Kopfman as chief compliance officer and executive vice president of contracts and administration.

In his new role, he will lead the ethics and mergers and acquisitions programs and continue to oversee all contract and administrative functions.

Kopfman joined American Systems in 1978 and has held a variety of positions of increasing responsibility. He was appointed to the company's ethics committee in 1999 and was named chairman of this committee in 2006, a role he still holds today.