Tish Long

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 programs office for the Navy intelligence staff. She was also given the title of resource management director for the Office of Naval Intelligence.

Prior to joining the NGA, Long served as the Defense Intelligence Agency‘s deputy director from 2006 to 2010. She previously was defense deputy undersecretary for intelligence from 2003 to 2010 and deputy director for Naval Intelligence from 2000 to 2003.

From 1998 to 2000, Long was the director of the CIA‘s executive director for intelligence community affairs. In this position, she was responsible for community-wide policy formulation, resource planning, and program assessment and evaluation.

From 1994 to 1996, Long served as director of military intelligence staff while on rotational assignment from Naval Intelligence to the DIA. She joined the DIA in 1996 as deputy director for information systems, where she directed the agency’s worldwide information technology and communications programs. She also was the DIA’s first chief information officer.

Long is a recipient of the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Civilian Service, Presidential Rank Award of Distinguished Executive and the Navy Distinguished Civilian Service Award.

Long has received two awards each of the Presidential Rank Award of Meritorious Executive, National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal and the Defense Intelligence Agency Director’s Award.

In 2011, the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association recognized Long with the Charlie Allen Award for Distinguished Intelligence Service.

She has also received the Medal of Merit from the king of Norway and holds the rank of Chevalier in France’s National Order of the Legion of Honor.

Adm. Jonathan Greenert, CNO

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 the Navy shore activities assigned by the secretary.

Greenert is a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and is the principal naval adviser to the president and to the secretary on the conduct of war. He is also the principal adviser and naval executive to the secretary on the conduct of activities of the Department of the Navy.

Prior to becoming CNO, Greenert was vice chief of naval operations from August 2009-August 2011.

Greenert’s career as a submariner includes assignments on the USS Flying Fish, USS Tautog, Submarine NR-1 and USS Michigan. He served in command of the USS Honolulu from March 1991-July 1993.

Later, Greenert served in various fleet command assignments, including command of Submarine Squadron 11, U.S. Naval Forces Marinas, U.S. 7th Fleet and U.S. Fleet Forces Command.

Greenert has received six Distinguished Service Medal awards, four Defense Superior Service Medal awards and four Legion of Merit awards. In 1992 he was awarded the Vice Admiral Stockdale Award for inspirational leadership.

Greenert is a native of Butler, Pa. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1975 and completed studies in nuclear power for service as a submarine officer.

Steve Cooper

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 per year.

Cooper was the Homeland Security Department’s first ever CIO, serving from 2003 to 2005. He then joined the Red Cross as CIO, serving two years and working during Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma.

Cooper left the Red Cross in 2007 to help found Strativest, a management and consulting firm based in Burke, Va. Cooper is on a leave of absence from Strativest while he serves as CIO of ATO.

Treasury CIO Robyn East

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 the Treasury, East was deputy CIO at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where she managed the daily operations of the central IT organization.

East has also been executive director of George Washington University’s executive director of the administrative applications department.

East holds a bachelor’s degree from the Mississippi University for Women and completed graduate work at North Texas State University.

NASA CIO Linda Cureton

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 evaluated consistent with federal policies, procedures and legislation.

Prior becoming the agency’s CIO, Cureton served as CIO of the Goddard Space Flight Center and led the Information Technology and Communications Directorate.

Before joining NASA, Cureton was deputy CIO of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and led the Office of Science and Technology as deputy assistant director.

Cureton has also served executive positions at both the Energy and Justice departments.

Cureton holds a bachelor’s degree from Howard University, graduating magna cum laude with a major in mathematics and a minor in Latin. She also holds both a master’s degree in applied mathematics and a post-master’s advanced certificate in applied mathematics from Johns Hopkins University.

IRS CIO Terry Milholland

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 returns.

Previously, Milholland was the executive vice president and CTO at Visa International for two years, nine months. Prior to that, he was both CTO and chief information officer at Electronic Data Systems for four years, eight months. Milholland was Boeing’s CIO from 1978-1999.

Milholland holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Maryland and a masters in computer science from George Washington University.

Robert Cardillo

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 director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the DIA’s second-ranking position, where he assisted in daily operations and long-term planning for the organization. He also served as the deputy director for analysis at DIA.

Cardillo began his career with DIA in 1983 as an imagery analyst and by 2000, he was selected to the Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service. Throughout his career, he has served in a variety of leadership positions within the intelligence community, including stints as a director at the National Geospatial-Intelligence 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 and scientists embedded within NRO.

From 2007 to 2009, Zitz served as the deputy associate director of the United States Secret Service, where he guided modernization efforts at the agency.

Before that, Zitz was deputy undersecretary of preparedness at the Department of Homeland Security, where he managed 1800 employees and oversaw $3 billion dollars in programs. He guided DHS’ preparedness work including infrastructure protection and cybersecurity.

While at DHS, Zitz co-chaired the the department’s Geospatial, Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Executive Committee, known as GPEC,

In the early part of the decade, Zitz led research and development efforts at NGA, where led the agency’s multi-intelligence fusion approach.

NRO Director Bruce Carlson

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, Carlson served as a defense-industry consultant and as a member of the board of directors for EADS North America.

Carlson retired from the Air Force in January 2009 after serving as commander of the service’s Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. While there, he had responsibility for 74,000 people and $59 billion annually. He was promoted from lieutenant general to general, earning his fourth star in 2005.

Carlson has been awarded the Defense Distinguished Service Medal with oak leaf cluster and the Air Force Commendation Medal with two oak leaf clusters, among others.

He holds degrees from the University of Minnesota, Webster University and is a graduate of the Naval War College.

Vice Adm. William Landay

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 and equipment.

A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Landay has also served as a team training instructor and Harpoon course director at Fleet Combat Training Center, Pacific; and C4I program officer and executive assistant to the director of Command, Control, Communications and Computer Systems at the United States Transportation Command.

As a flag officer, Landay served as the program executive officer for Littoral and Mine Warfare. In January 2006, he became the 21st chief of Naval Research. He most recently served as the program executive officer for Ships, responsible for all non-nuclear shipbuilding programs.

Landay is also a level-3 certified acquisition professional and a proven subspecialist in C4I Systems. His personal awards include the Distinguished Service Medal and Legion of Merit, among others.