Four-star Gen. Stanley McChrystal retired from his storied military career in June 2010. Before his resignation as commander of all U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan, McChrystal, a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, was the director of the Joint Staff and the commander of the Joint Special Operations Command. While [...]

Before taking over as executive director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Secure Border Initiative, Mark Borkowski had been serving as a program manager for the U.S. Border Patrol. All told he has a combined 25 years of experience in systems acquisitions as well as program management in agencies and departments such as NASA and [...]

Steve Cooper is the CIO of the FAA’s Air Traffic Organization, responsible for the information technology architecture used by 35,000 air traffic controllers to safely direct more than 7,000 takeoffs and landings per hour and more than 660 million passengers per year. Previously, he served as DHS’ first CIO from 2003 to 2005, leaving in [...]

Eugene Huang serves as the Director of Government Operations for National Broadband Task Force at the the Federal Communication Commission. He formerly served in the Treasury Department during the Bush administration, and moved to the FCC in 2009. Huang served in the Treasury Department under two Secretaries as a policy advisor and White House fellow. [...]

As director of National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Letitia A. Long is the first woman to lead a major intelligence agency. She has more than 30 years of engineering and intelligence experience, previously serving as deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence, deputy director of naval intelligence and as coordinator of intelligence community activities for the director of [...]

Beth Simone Noveck is the United States deputy chief technology officer and director of the White House Open Government Initiative. Currently on leave from her academic career, she previously taught at the New York Law School in the areas of intellectual property, innovation and constitutional law, as well as courses on electronic democracy and electronic [...]

Janet Napolitano is the third secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. She leads the nation’s collective efforts to secure it from various threats, including terrorism and natural disasters. To counter the threat of terrorism, Napolitano has forged new partnerships with international allies and expanded information sharing with federal, state and local law enforcement. She [...]

Robert A. Harding is a major general who retired from the Army in 2001 after serving for 33 years. He was recently tapped by President Barack Obama to head the TSA. He subsequently withdrew his nomination. Previously, Harding was CEO and president of Harding Security Associates, a security consultant firm specializing in homeland security assignments. [...]

Mary Wakefield was named administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration by President Barack Obama Feb. 20, 2009. Wakefield was previously at the University of North Dakota, where she served as associate dean for rural health at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences. She was also a tenured professor and director of the [...]

Thomas R. Frieden became director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry in 2009.  Frieden has worked to control both communicable and noncommunicable diseases in the United States and around the world. From 1992 to 1996, he led New York City’s program that [...]