Tish Long is director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a position she has held since August 2010. Long became the first woman to lead a major U.S. intelligence agency when she joined the NGA. She has served in the Senior Intelligence Executive Service since 1994, when she was appointed director of requirements, plans, policy and [...]

Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert is the chief of naval operations, having assumed the post Sept. 23. Greenert is the senior military officer in the Department of the Navy. He is responsible to the Secretary of the Navy for the command, utilization of resources, and operating efficiency of the operating forces of the Navy and of [...]

Steve Cooper serves in the Federal Aviation Administration as chief information officer of the Air Traffic Organization, a position she has held since August 2009. Cooper is responsible for the IT architecture used by 35,000 air traffic controllers, helping them direct more than 7,000 takeoffs and landings per hour and more than 660 million passengers [...]

Robyn East joined the Treasury Department in March to serve as deputy assistant secretary for information systems and chief information officer. East is the Treasury’s principal advisor on IT issues and is responsible for acquiring and managing information resources. She provides broad leadership in planning, implementing and managing the Treasury’s technology resources. Prior to joining [...]

Linda Cureton is chief information officer for NASA, a position she has held since Sept. 2009. Cureton leads the transformation of IT capabilities and services to support and enable NASA’s mission and ensures agency’s information resource management strategy aligns with its vision, mission and strategic goals. Cureton also ensures NASA information assets are controlled and [...]

Terry Milholland is chief technology officer for the Internal Revenue Service, a position he has held since Nov. 2008. As CTO, Milholland is responsible for all aspects of the system that operates the nation’s tax infrastructure. He oversees a 7,000-person organization that maintains over 400 systems, which enable the processing of over 200 million tax [...]

Robert Cardillo serves as the deputy director for intelligence integration in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. DNI James Clapper named Cardillo to this newly created post in September 2010. In his ODNI role, he is responsible for facilitating information sharing and collaboration through the integration of analysis Previously, he served as deputy [...]

Rob Zitz, a 31-year veteran of the intelligence community, is a the deputy director of Mission Support for the National Reconnaissance Office, which serves as the intelligence community’s chief satellite agency. He also serves as the director’s senior adviser for Geospatial Intelligence, and he directs the efforts of all the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency NGA engineers [...]

  Bruce Carlson serves as the director of the National Reconnaissance Office, a position he has held since June 2009. NRO, launched in 1961, is the agency responsible for designing, building, launching and maintaining U.S. intelligence satellites and is one of the 16 member agencies of the intelligence community. Before he was appointed NRO director, [...]

Vice Adm. William Landay serves as the director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, a position he has held since August 2010. The DSCA is the agency responsible for foreign military sales, and as its director, Landay provides leadership, management and oversight of programs for sales, training and humanitarian assistance involving sales of foreign arms [...]