Identity Management/HSPD12 - 1 Year in Review

Program will discuss:

• Progress made in achieving Government Agency compliance to last year's Oct. 27th-2006 deadline for HSPD-12

• Issuance of smart ID cards

• Review of technical requirements and best practices as to how government and industry are working together to help direct key leaders in government make identity management solutions

Panelists:

Mike Butler - Program Manager, GSA MSO

Mary Dixon - Director, Defense Manpower Data Center, DoD

Tom Lockwood - Senior Advisor, DHS

Gordon Hannah - Managing Director, Public Sector Security and Identity Management Group, BearingPoint

David Troy - Director, U.S. Government Identity Management Solutions Group, EDS

Phil Myers - Director of Identity and Access Management Solutions, Unisys Corporation

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.

As Program Manager for GSA's USAccess program, Mr. Butler will leverage his management skills, technical expertise, and lessons learned from the DOD CAC program to help the government implement a standard HSPD-12 credentialing program. A key goal is to leverage the volume of multiple agencies into a cost effective and efficient credentialing operation that forms a foundation for new business lines.

Mr. Butler has recently stepped down as chairman of the Government Smart Card Interagency Advisory Board. This past year he was selected to the FED-100 and was a recipient of a CIO Council Leadership Award.

From 1998 through 2004, Ms. Dixon served as the Director of the DoD Access Card Office (ACO). She was responsible for the implementation of smart card technology, also known as the Common Access Card (CAC) in the DoD. The CAC program is widely recognized as the most advanced and interoperable large-scale smart card program in the world. In fact, since 2001, the program has earned international recognition with thirteen major awards. Ms. Dixon was responsible for both program management and the world-wide management of the operational issuance system.

Over the course of her career, Ms. Dixon worked for the Navy in positions of increasing responsibility and as a senior analyst for Program Analysis and Evaluation (PA&E) in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. In 1977, she was appointed the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower) where she was responsible for military manpower, personnel, and training policy and issues within the Department.

Ms. Dixon also worked as a consultant addressing a wide range of manpower, personnel, and training issues throughout the Department of Defense and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. She returned to the federal government at the Defense Manpower Data Center in 1998.

Ms. Dixon holds a Master's degree in Business Administration - Operations Research from George Washington University.

He is the former Director of the Office of National Capital Region Coordination (ONCRC). Director Lockwood is responsible for coordinating and strengthening preparedness, prevention, response, and recovery in the National Capital Region. He is the immediate past-chair of the Joint Federal Committee, a coordinating body composed of emergency management and public safety coordinators from the Federal Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches. For nearly 5 years, he served as a member of the NCR Senior Policy Group, a group comprised of senior homeland security leaders from the District of Columbia, the State of Maryland, and the Commonwealth of Virginia, as well as, an executive committee member of the NCR Emergency Preparedness Committee. Director Lockwood is the former Homeland Security Advisor and Deputy Director of Maryland's Office for Homeland Security.

Director Lockwood has an extensive career in public service; including serving as an active executive board member on several public policy and not-for profit organizations, as well as, leadership positions in state and federal government.

Within the Federal and Defense arena, Mr. Hannah has identity management operations and program management experience with the DoD (including DMDC, BMO, WHS, Navy, Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps), DHS (TSA), State Department, GSA, GAO, MoD UK, and DfEE UK. As the Program Manager for the TSA Transportation Worker Identification Credential, he fielded an operational, nationwide end-to-end identity management and biometric credentialing system just 96 days after contract award. As Project Manager for the Department of Defense Common Access Biometric Working Group, he performed a series of smart card, biometric, and cryptographic technology evaluations to evaluate how DoD might deploy biometric technologies in conjunction with their Common Access Card. He also helped the Department of Defense Defense Manpower Data Center receive international recognition for their award winning Common Access Card program. Prior to joining BearingPoint (then KPMG LLP) in 1998, Mr. Hannah held a number of technology and management positions with Andrulis, Tyco International, and the Department of Defense (U.S. Navy).

Mr. Hannah holds a Bachelor of Science Degree (magna cum laude) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Connecticut. He is a graduate of the Navy Nuclear Power Engineering School, Navy Nuclear Prototype School, Navy Submarine School, and qualified Nuclear Engineering Officer on Submarines; Mr. Hannah holds a Top Secret Security Clearance and is a member of the Smart Card Alliance, M1/B10, ITAA, Biometric Consortium, European Biometric Forum, Government Smart Card Interagency Advisory Board, FICC, FIXS and many other public & private sector organizations.

Troy began working in identity solutions in 1995 and was responsible for leading the teams that developed and implemented a number of innovative automated inspections systems for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), including the INS Passenger Accelerated Service System (INSPASS), Secure Electronic Network for Travelers Rapid Inspection/Dedicated Commuter Lane (SENTRI/DCL) and NEXUS. He was also instrumental in the successful implementations of the Ben Gurion Airport Express Entrysm System and the Basel Border Crossing Project, both in Israel.

Over the past two years, Troy has applied his expertise and the expertise of his team to develop the EDS Assured Identity™ Solution, which was designed and developed to help agencies meet the Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 mandate as well as provide an integrated, end-to-end identity management solution.

Prior to joining Unisys, he held senior management positions with information security technology companies such as AXENT Technologies, VASCO, and Precise Biometrics. Most recently, Phil led HSPD-12 compliancy projects utilizing fingerprint biometrics and smart card technologies with the Department of State and the Department of Homeland Security, as well other credentialing projects including the Transportation Security Administration's Registered Travelers pilot and The Texas Medicaid Integrity Program.

Phil is a member of the Smart Card Alliance Identity Council, the Government Smart Card Interagency Advisory Board, the Computer Security Institute and the Information Systems Security Association.