Information and Intelligence Sharing - 1 Year Later

• Ways to make it easier for federal agencies and state, local governments to access and share government-wide terrorism information.

• How to create a ‘Trusted Information Network.'

• How to secure shared knowledge.

• How to stop turf battles and agency infighting which stymie information sharing.

Karen Evans Administrator of E-Government and Information Technology - OMB

Dale Meyerrose CIO - Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Vance Hitch CIO - Department of Justice

Zal Azmi CIO - FBI

Dr. Carter Morris Director, Information Sharing & Knowledge Management Intelligence and Analysis - DHS

Edward Vaccaro Partner, Homeland Security, Federal Systems - Unisys

Glenn Cruickshank Senior Manager, Information Management Practice - BearingPoint

Michael P Angelakis President and Founder - Integration Technologies Group, Inc.

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 serving as Administrator, Ms. Evans was the Chief Information Officer for the U.S. Department of Energy. There she was responsible for the design, implementation, and successful operation of Information Technology (IT) programs and initiatives throughout the Department and its offices. Additionally during this period, Ms. Evans served as Vice-Chairman of the Federal Chief Information Officers Council. Elected to this post in December 2002, she coordinated the Council's efforts in developing federal IT programs and improving agency information resource practices.

Earlier, Ms. Evans served as Director of the Information Resources Management Division at the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs (OJP). There she was responsible for the management and successful operation of the Information Technology program. OJP provides funding for initiatives such as Safe Schools, the Safe Start Program, Community Prosecution, Native American Tribal Courts and other programs of local, state and national interest. During her tenure, Ms. Evans implemented an on-line grants management system to process grants from discretionary, formula and large block programs thereby streamlining capabilities to ensure the expeditious processing of claims benefits to families of public safety officers affected by the September 11th attacks. Prior to joining OJP, she served as the Assistant Director for Information Services at DOJ Headquarters where she successfully managed Internet resources for the Department.

Ms. Evans also served as the acting Deputy Assistant Administrator for Management Information Systems, Deputy Director for the Applications Management Division and the Chief of Emerging Technology at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farmers Home Administration. There she managed the nationwide implementation, from inception to operation, of several critical automation systems.

She is a 25 year veteran of Government service holding positions ranging from GS-2 to SES, and has further served at the National Park Service and the Office of Personnel Management.

Ms. Evans holds a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry and a Master of Business Administration degree from West Virginia University. Her and her husband Randy have two children and reside in Martinsburg, WV.

Mr. Meyerrose serves as the Chief Information Officer for the United States Intelligence Community. Mr. Meyerrose manages activities relating to the information technology infrastructure and enterprise requirements of the Intelligence Community. He has procurement approval authority over all information technology items related to the enterprise architectures of all Intelligence Community components. Mr. Meyerrose directs and manages all information technology-related procurement for the Intelligence Community and ensures that all expenditures for information technology and research and development activities are consistent with the Intelligence Community enterprise architecture. Mr. Meyerrose came to this position after over thirty years of military service, culminating with his retirement from the United States Air Force as a Major General in November 2005.

Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, he entered the United States Air Force in 1975 after graduating from the U.S. Air Force Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics. His career highlights include service as a director and Chief Information Officer in three Air Force major air commands and three unified combatant commands, a deployed Joint Task Force Director of Communications in Southwest Asia, and a commander of two major Air Force communications units. Mr. Meyerrose, a master parachutist, earned the Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, two Legions of Merit, two Defense Meritorious Service Medals, and six Meritorious Service Medals. Mr. Meyerrose received a Master of Business Administration degree, from the University of Utah in 1978. He graduated from the National War College, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington D.C. in 1992. He attended the Senior Information Warfare Applications and Joint Flag Officer Warfighting Courses, Maxwell AFB, Alabama. He also attended the Program for National and International Security, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the U.S. Navy Executive Business Course, Haas School of Business, University of California - Berkeley, at the Naval Post Graduate School, Monterey, California.

Prior to coming to the Department of Justice, Hitch was a Senior Partner with Accenture. He has 28 years of experience in leading government organizations successfully through major change initiatives. His recent projects at Accenture included the development of the IT Strategic Plan for the State of Maryland and a comprehensive re-engineering and automation of the City of Philadelphia's Records Department. Other government organizations that Hitch has worked with include the Department of State, the National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, and multiple state and local governments.

Hitch earned a Masters of Systems Management from George Washington University in 1973 and a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Muhlenberg College in 1967. He served in the United States Navy from 1969 -1973, attaining the rank of lieutenant.

In pursuit of that charter, Mr. Azmi has been responsible for dramatic change in the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO). Significant accomplishments include:

Mr. Azmi served in the United States Marine Corps for seven years as a Communication and Intelligence Specialist. He served multiple tours with Marine Expeditionary Units (Special Operations Capable) and his last assignment was with the 2 nd Surveillance, Intelligence, and Reconnaissance Group.

Mr. Azmi has received several prestigious awards including the Presidential Rank of Distinguished Executive Award, President G.W. Bush Award for Excellence in Counter Terrorism Support, Arthur S. Flemming Award for Excellence in Applied Science and Technology, two Bronze Medals from the Department of Commerce, and numerous military service medals.

Mr. Azmi holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems from The American University and a Master of Science in Management Information Systems from The George Washington University.

Most recently Dr. Morris served as the Deputy Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Collection where he helped coordinate all Intelligence Community collection activities.

Dr. Morris received a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Hampden-Sydney College in 1966 and a Doctorate in Physics from the University of Virginia in 1970 in the area of experimental solid-state physics.

After receiving his Ph.D., Dr. Morris spent two years at the University of Virginia as an Assistant Professor of Physics before moving to the faculty of the Physics Department at Florida State University. Dr. Morris spent 11 years as a professor at Florida State teaching and conducting a research program concentrating on exploring the electrical and magnetic properties of materials at low temperatures.

In 1984, Dr. Morris took a leave of absence from the university to work with the Office of Research and Development (ORD) at the CIA and a year later officially joined the Agency. In ORD he held both senior scientist and management positions concentrating on the development of technology to support human and signals intelligence operations. When he left ORD he was chief of the Signals Exploitation Division.

From 1993 to 1995, Dr. Morris served in the DCI's Nonproliferation Center (NPC) as Special Assistant for R&D to the Director of NPC where he headed a group whose responsibility was to coordinate government-wide R&D to support the needs of the nonproliferation program.

In 1995, Dr. Morris joined what became the Clandestine MASINT Operations Center (CMOC) in the Office of Technical Collection as Chief of the Systems Analysis Staff. In 1998, he became Deputy Director of CMOC.

In 2000, Dr. Morris became Deputy Director of the Central MASINT Organization in the Defense Intelligence Agency where he served until he became the Deputy Assistant DCI for Collection in late 2001.

Dr. Morris lives in Arlington, Virginia, has one daughter and two grandsons, and tries to play golf every chance he gets.

Ed joined Unisys from BearingPoint (formerly KPMG Consulting, Inc.), where he was a managing director and partner of the operations support systems practice for the telecommunications market. Ed designed and managed the solutions offerings for order management, service provisioning and service assurance. He was responsible for developing solutions strategy, building a global experts team, client delivery, managing vendor alliances and business development.

Before joining BearingPoint, Ed was the chief information officer with General Electric Medical Systems, where he was responsible for transforming the information technology organization to support both manufacturing and service operations. He directed the information systems organization of the leading supplier of medical imaging equipment and services. In addition, he managed the technology selection, integration, implementation, support and operation of the internal enterprise systems utilized by business operations worldwide.

Prior to his work at General Electric Medical Systems, Ed served as vice president, IT consulting and chief information officer of Booz Allen & Hamilton. Here, he directed the information systems organization of the global consulting firm. Ed restructured the internal IT organization, stabilizing the systems operations and applications that provided optimal 24-hour support to the global consulting practices.

Ed holds a degree in chemistry from LaSalle University.

He formed ITG after a successful career at Wang Laboratories as an Account Executive, a Program Manager and eventually in charge of all Federal Programs. Under his stewardship, Wang's Federal System Division became the prime contractor and implementer of secure and unclassified projects valued in excess of five hundred million dollars. He has a thorough understanding of the intricacies of federal contracting and of the complexities of large systems integration and implementation.

Angelakis brings a customer orientation to project management. An avid believer in Best Practices, he has driven ITG through CMMI, ISO and ITIL appraisals, registrations and certifications. Defining requirements, identifying stakeholders, validating and verifying the technical solutions, have helped reward the Company with eighty four consecutive profitable quarters and spare its customers of costly "scope creep".

His interest in "effective" technology, gave rise to the development and implementation of Automated Procurement, Document Management and Enterprise Wide Management Systems, including Customer Relationship, Incident, Inventory, Purchasing, Logistics, HR, Project, and SW Development Subsystems.

With fifty-five current projects and active participation in most Federal IDIQs either as a prime contractor or a team member, Angelakis views his commitment to Best Practices paving a bright future for ITG.