Wireless & Interoperability

• Interoperability challenges among Federal, State & Local first responders and law enforcement

• Need for more Radio Frequency Spectrum

• Updates on current Federal Efforts to achieve interoperable communications

• Where do we go from here

Dr. David Boyd Director, Command, Control and Interoperability - Science and Technology Directorate, DHS

Mike Duffy Deputy CIO - eGovernment, DoJ

Paige Atkins Director, Defense Spectrum Organization - DISA

Joe Rose Office of CIO - District of Columbia

Paul Cosgrave CIO - New York City

Dave Williams Booz Allen Hamilton

Jim Payne President, Federal Telecommunications - Bechtel Systems

Stephen Orr Senior Consulting System Engineer - Cisco Systems, Inc.

Moderator

Jim Flyzik - Flyzik Group

Jim served over 27 years in the federal government. He served as Senior Advisor to Governor Ridge in the White House Office of Homeland Security (OHS). He provided advice to OHS on the National Strategy and Information Management in support of the OHS mission. From February 1998 until December 2002, Jim also served as the Vice Chair of the Federal Government CIO Council overseeing numerous governmentwide IT initiatives. He was also a member of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board.

Prior to this, from August 1997 until April 2002, Jim was the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Information Systems and Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Department of the Treasury. He provided oversight, strategic planning and management direction on over $3.0 billion in annual information technology and information infrastructure programs within Treasury and its fourteen Bureaus. Jim also served as the Acting Assistant Secretary for Management for the Treasury Department from January 20, 2001 until February 8, 2002. In that role he provided oversight of all Treasury bureaus and served as the principal policy advisor to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary on matters involving the internal management of the Department and its bureaus. Jim received the Secretary Certificate of Appreciation on February 12, 2002 for his efforts during this transition period.

Prior to his Treasury positions, Jim worked for 15 years at the U.S. Secret Service where he held key IT management positions, including the Chief of the Communications Division, providing world class telecommunications in support of Secret Service tactical and operational requirements.

Jim has extensive public speaking experience and frequently serves as a featured speaker at industry events. He has developed, and currently teaches part-time, a graduate level course on Information Systems Security and Risk Assessment at the University of Maryland. Jim was given the Stanley J. Drazek Excellence in Teaching Award in 1998 by the University of Maryland.

Jim has an undergraduate degree in Business Administration and Computer Science and a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Maryland with an area of concentration in Information Systems Management.

Dr. Boyd came to Homeland Security from the U.S. Department of Justice, where he had service, since 1992, as the Director of Science and Technology for the National Institute of Justice, the criminal justice research and evaluation agency within the U.S. Department of Justice. In 1997, he was also appointed Deputy Director of the National Institute of Justice itself. He oversaw the operations of the single largest law enforcement and corrections technology development activity in the United States. His office managed research and development programs in every facet of technology affecting law enforcement and corrections, including the forensic sciences, less than lethal technologies, information and communications technologies, concealed weapons and contraband detection, simulation, and others. His office directed the DNA and forensic laboratory improvement programs, which are designed to strengthen DNA identification and general forensic analysis capabilities in state and local crime laboratories. His office also managed the only voluntary standards development and testing organization for law enforcement and corrections in the United States, and was charged by Congress with the development of proficiency tests for DNA laboratories. When Dr. Boyd assumed responsibility for the Office of Science and Technology, it had a staff of four and an annual budget of just over $2 million. When he left, it had an active portfolio of just over $750 million and some 200 Federal and contract employees in more than 18 technology centers across the United States. He also served, at the direction of the Attorney General, on the White House National Science and Technology Council, on the National Security Council Committee on Safety and Security of Public Facilities, and as the Executive Chair of the Justice Department's Technology Policy Council.

Over the past decade, Mr. Duffy has held a range of senior information technology management positions in the Department including Director of Telecommunications, Director of Information Management and Security, and the Program Manager for the Justice Consolidated Office Network. He also has experience in federal financial management and strategic planning.

Mr. Duffy earned a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Massachusetts and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bowdoin College

Ms. Atkins is responsible for comprehensive and integrated spectrum plans and long-term strategies to transform the Department's legacy spectrum management processes and capabilities to future net-centric operations. She supports the Secretary of Defense on national and international spectrum issues, spectrum coordination, and in the pursuit of emerging spectrum efficient technologies. She is responsible for providing direct support to the ASD (NII)/DoD CIO, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Combatant Commanders, and DoD components to enable effective and efficient use of the electromagnetic spectrum and control of electromagnetic environmental effects in support of national security and military objectives.

Ms. Atkins graduated in 1984 from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering. In 1989, she earned a Master of Science Degree in Engineering Administration from George Washington University.

Among his initial accomplishments are the creation of a Citywide IT Strategic Direction, to better meet the needs of the City's residents, businesses, visitors and employees, and launch of the Citywide Mobile Wireless Network (CMWN), which will represent an historic enhancement to public safety communications by enabling data transfer rates 50 times faster than today. The CMWN will give the City's emergency responders high-speed data access to support large file transfers, fingerprints, mug shots, city maps, and full-motion, streaming video. The network will also support a host of other public service applications that will provide a significant improvement over existing technologies.

Commissioner Cosgrave was also instrumental in the launch of ACCESS NYC, an online resource providing New Yorkers a single point-of-entry for human service benefit programs. ACCESS NYC takes a transformative, client-centered approach to explaining the many services offered, and allows residents to pre-screen, anonymously if they prefer, for their eligibility for programs offered by more than 20 different City, state and federal programs-in any of seven different languages.

Prior to his appointment, Commissioner Cosgrave served as the Executive Vice President for Crown Consulting, Inc., where he directed an Enterprise Architecture team to design the overall structure of the Next Generation Air Transportation System for the Federal Aviation Administration. From 1998 to 2001, he served as Chief Information Officer at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), an organization with an annual budget of $1.6 billion and a staff of 7,900, where he led a major restructuring and centralization of information systems.

Commissioner Cosgrave earned an MS and BS in Industrial Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is a native New Yorker, born in Flushing, Queens, and is the father of three grown children. He currently resides in lower Manhattan.

Mr. Williams has served as a portfolio manager for multiple public safety mission-critical wireless communications and interoperability efforts within the both the civil and defense spaces. He has led interoperability projects with the Department of Justice (DOJ), SAFECOM (including the efforts of a predecessor program known as the Public Safety Wireless Network [PSWN]), U.S. Army Land Mobile Radio (LMR) Program, and National Guard Bureau wireless projects. At DOJ, Mr. Williams led a team that determined interoperability requirements and implemented solutions in 25 major metropolitan areas across the country. At PSWN/SAFECOM, he led teams in providing a national strategy for interoperability and policy development in the areas of standards and spectrum. Mr. Williams has also led efforts and collaborated with colleagues and clients to establish and operate program offices for LMR and non-tactical wireless within the Army, National Guard, and other military services.

Previously, Mr. Williams provided support to the FBI in its implementation of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). He led and managed activities to establish a market-driven prioritization process whereby the electronic surveillance of emerging technologies and services could be addressed in order according to law enforcement's needs and availability in the market. He also provided key support in the development of the Global Strategy for the implementation of CALEA. Prior to his work for FBI, Mr. Williams supported DoD clients, where he provided telecommunications support to the government staff at the client site and at field locations nationwide.

Before joining Booz Allen, Mr. Williams served in the Navy, first as a shipboard electronics technician and then as a communications technician and supervisor for WHCA. At WHCA, Mr. Williams was a team leader responsible for the operation and maintenance of the Washington Area System, providing critical communications support for the President and Vice President of the United States, White House staff, and the United States Secret Service.

Bechtel has been ranked by Engineering News-Record as the top U.S. telecom�munications engineering firm for the past 4 years. The company performs more than $1 billion of work annually on commercial and government contracts for the design, procurement, installation, and maintenance of telecommunications systems worldwide. Current government contracts include a USAID infrastructure reconstruction program that has restored network services to subscribers in much of Iraq. In addition, Bechtel maintains unique telecommunications laboratories in Maryland and Idaho that lead the industry in technology innovation and testing. Mr. Payne is managing the expansion of Bechtel's telecommunications services in the defense and civilian government market.

Mr. Payne brings to Bechtel a distinguished record of more than 25 years of successful management experience with some of the largest U.S. telecommunications firms. Most recently, as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of a $400 million division of Qwest, he achieved a 300 percent increase in revenue in just 3 years and established Qwest as a major provider in the federal civilian and defense market. Previously, during 16 years with Sprint Communications, he led the strategic planning and marketing for the company's government division. He was the capture manager and operations manager of a $1.3 billion Federal Technology Service program for the General Services Administration that provides efficient, low-cost long-distance, Internet, and data transmission services to civilian agencies, including the Justice and Treasury departments, the White House, NASA, and the Veterans Administration.

Mr. Payne earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in marketing at Georgetown University and a Master of Business Administration degree in marketing at George Washington University. In addition, he completed a highly selective Marketing Associate Development Program as an executive management trainee with GTE Corporation.

Mr. Payne serves on the Board of Directors of the Armed Forces Communication and Electronics Association and on the boards of several educational institutions. He is an influential telecommunications industry representative for the federal government and has provided guidance on key issues as a member of the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection, the Council on Competitiveness, and the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. He also earned the prestigious Federal 100 industry award in 1996 and 2000 for significant achievements in federal information technology.

Prior to joining Cisco Systems, Orr spent several years at the United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, where he was responsible for investigating new technologies to enhance the cadet learning environment; operations and maintenance of the Cadet Academic Network; network design, configuration, installation and training. He also created West Point's first high tech wireless classroom. v