Information and Intelligence Sharing - 2 Years in Review

Program will discuss:

• Key Initiative for the coming year

• Key Challenges we need to overcome to keep making progress

• Are Fusion Centers the Mechanism to reaching out to the private sector

• Which federal agencies have lead roles in Information & Intelligence Sharing

• Vision for the future

  
  Panelists:
  

  General Meyerrose - CIO, ODNI

  Van Hitch -CIO, DoJ

  Mike Krieger -Principal Director of IT Management & Technology, OSD

  Robert Riegle - Director of the State and Local Government Program Office within the Office of Intelligence & Analysis in The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, DHS

  Mike DeHart - Stealth Program Manager, Federal Systems and Technology, Unisys

  Tom Simmons - Area Vice President for Federal Systems, Citrix

  Steve Hutchens - Client Industry Executive for Homeland Security in the Global Government Industry, EDS

  Moderator:

  Jim Flyzik -Flyzik Group
  

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  About the Panel
  

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.

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.

He assumed his current position as the Principal Director, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Information Management and Technology) in February 2008. He was previously the Director of Information Policy and Integration in the Office of the DoD Chief Information Officer. He is responsible for integrating DoD policies, guidance, and direction to create an information advantage for DoD personnel and mission partners.

Mr. Krieger is a confirmed net-centric information sharing zealot. He believes that all information assets must be visible, available, usable, and trusted when needed and where needed to accelerate decision-making, and he passionately shares his vision with nonbelievers.

Mr. Krieger holds a BA from the United States Military Academy, an MS in Physics from Georgia Institute of Technology, and an MS in National Security Strategy from the National Defense University.

His USAF experience encompasses communications and information technology, special operations, command and control, strategic planning, program management, and tactical communications. He was the SC & CIO for the AF Special Operations Command, and the J6 & CIO for US Forces Korea, with other assignments spanning the Joint Staff, Headquarters USAF, Joint and Air Force major command headquarters, and Air Force units worldwide.

Mr. DeHart graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1975, and received a Master's degree in International Relations from Troy State University, and a Master's degree in National Security Strategy from the National War College in Washington DC.

Hutchens has more than 30 years' experience in information systems, communications, technology and security. Hutchens has worked with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and various state and local government clients during his time with EDS. Recently, he was very involved in the development of homeland security solutions that are part of the public safety strategy for an EDS client in California.

He joined EDS in 2002 as director of security solutions within federal, state and local government business. He was responsible for coordinating with sales executives and delivery managers to meet clients' information assurance needs, as well as providing direct consulting services to EDS' state and local clients.

Previously, Hutchens worked for Unisys Corp., serving as practice director-information security solutions and security lead for the Transportation Security Administration contract. He launched the creation of the Unisys healthcare security and privacy services to meet requirements for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). At Litton TASC, Hutchens served as section manager/industry lead for information operations.

Hutchens served as director of information systems for the Loudoun Hospital Center and Danville Regional Medical Center, both in Virginia. He started his career as a programmer for the City of Danville (Va.) and senior programmer for Goodyear Tire and Rubber before becoming a systems analyst for International Telephone and Telegraph's Electro-Optical Products Division.

He has experience in the identification and analysis of security requirements, security architectures, risk analyses, and security testing to facilitate system security accreditation. He has developed Protection Profiles for Trusted Security Products using the Common Criteria as proposed by the National Institutes of Science and Technology.

Hutchens is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and an adjunct faculty for the University of Virginia. Mr. Hutchens has extensive experience as adjunct faculty for numerous universities and colleges teaching information systems, security, and business courses. As a member of the National Speakers Association, Hutchens has delivered presentations for Siemens, Hewlett-Packard, American Medical Informatics Association and Society for Competitive Intelligence Professionals, among others. He is a presenter at national conferences on healthcare information systems, emerging healthcare technology and information security.

Hutchens holds a master of business administration and bachelor of science degree in business administration from Averett College.