Border Security 2007

• What are some of the most difficult challenges to overcome to accomplish Secure Border Initiatives?

• How will you maintain flexibility in the Secure Border Initiatives to deal with possible high level policy changes?

• Are Secure Border Initiatives primarily an IT led effort or are other areas of the organization playing key roles?

• Share a vision for the future. Will we have a secure modernized Border infrastructure in 3 years? 5 years? 10 years?

Keith Jones Deputy CIO - ICE-DHS

Lorraine Leithiser Deputy CIO - CBP-DHS

Frank Moss Deputy Assistant Secretary of Consular Affairs & Passport Services - State Department

Bob Mocny Acting Director of the US VISIT Program - DHS

Kathy Kraninger Director of the Screening and Coordination Office - DHS

Liz Schmelzinger Secure Border Coordination Council Office - DHS

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.

Prior to his current assignment he served between 1998 and 2003 as the Executive Director of the Bureau of Consular Affairs of the Department of State. He directed the Bureau's administrative support operations, including resource and personnel management, automated systems and general services support. He received a Presidential Meritorious Rank Award in 2002 for his service as the Executive Director.

He has also served as the Senior Advisor for Border Security to the Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs. In that position he directed the development, justification and implementation of the Department of State's Border Security Program. He also had extensive responsibilities for bilateral matters related to common border issues with Canada and Mexico. He served in that position between January 1995 and April 1998.

Prior to joining the Bureau of Consular Affairs, Frank Moss served from 1987-1994 in the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism. His responsibilities included inter-agency efforts to reduce the threat posed by terrorism to U.S. nationals and interests, and to support investigations of acts of terrorism, especially the Pan Am 103 bombing.

Frank Moss was the Refugee Coordinator at the US Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan from 1985-87. Immediately prior to that he was seconded from the Department of State to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). He served with UNHCR from 1982-85 and spent most of that period assigned to the UNHCR office in Islamabad, Pakistan, where he managed relief programs for Afghan refugees.

Between 1979 and 1982 he had a variety of assignments in the Department associated with the management of US refugee programs and policies. Between 1975 when he joined the Department and 1979 he worked as a budget and management analyst.

Frank Moss is a career member of the Senior Executive Service. He is a Distinguished Graduate and has a Masters Degree in National Resource Strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Services at the National Defense University (1994). He also has a Masters in Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University (1975). His undergraduate studies were at Georgetown University from which he graduated with honors in 1974.

Operated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), US VISIT is part of a continuum of security measures that begins overseas and across our land borders and continues through arrival in and departure from the United States.

Mr. Mocny is responsible for the day-to-day operations of US VISIT. This includes managing the development and deployment of the US-VISIT program, which integrates vital information and makes it available to appropriate federal organizations.

Over the course of his career, he has served in several senior federal government positions related to U.S. immigration policy and operations, including director of the Entry/Exit Project and acting assistant commissioner and assistant chief inspector with the former Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Mr. Mocny is a leading authority on the evolution to an automated entry-exit border system in the United States. He led the establishment of the dedicated commuter lane program Secure Electronic Network for Traveler's Rapid Inspection (SENTRI) at U.S. land border ports and initiated the policy of interagency project teams to meet critical U.S. government mandates.

Mr. Mocny holds a joint degree in Soviet and liberal studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has received numerous awards in his career, including the U.S. vice president's annual Hammer Award for the SENTRI program's innovative use of information technology.

She has worked as a Policy Advisor to both Secretary Ridge at the Department of Homeland Security and Secretary Mineta at the Department of Transportation, involved in a broad range of issues including transportation security, border security and terrorist screening. In addition, she held other posts at the Department of Transportation, including in Legislative Affairs covering maritime issues and Congressional offices representing the Great Lakes region. In 2000, Ms. Kraninger worked on the Bush 2000 and Cantor for Congress campaigns.

Kraninger has a bachelor of arts from Marquette University and is currently a fourth year evening student at Georgetown University Law Center. She served as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Ukraine.