Rafael Borras serves as under secretary for management at the Department of Homeland Security, where he acts as the designated chief management officer and chief management officer.

As CMO, he oversees DHS’ $60 billion budget including appropriations, expenditures, accounting and finance. In his acquisition role, he controls the department’s $19 billion procurement fund.

He also oversees the financial, human capital, information technology, procurement, security and administrative lines of business within the agency’s management directorate.

His public sector service career also includes time as deputy assistant secretary for administration in the U.S. Commerce Department and in that role was responsible for the department’s financial, personnel, information technology, budget, administrative services, acquisition and grants functions.

Prior to joining DHS, Borras served as a vice president at engineering services contractor URS Corp. as part of his 10-year career in the private sector.

Before URS, Borras served as regional administrator for the mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. General Services Administration, having led an organization with more than 1,300 employees that provided federal agencies real estate, supply and procurement, vehicle acquisition and information technology services.

Borras’ city government experience includes service as deputy manager in Hartford, Conn., where he oversaw the departments of finance, police, fire, code enforcement, information technology, purchasing, budget and human relations.

He has also served as deputy city manager of New Rochelle, N.Y. and began his public sector career as an administrative officer in Dade County, Fla.

Rep. Buck McKeon has chaired the House Armed Services Committee since January 2011 after first becoming ranking member in 2009.

The California Republican leads a committee responsible for overseeing the Defense Department and the U.S. armed forces, as well as parts of the Energy Department.

As chairman, he has led efforts to increase funding for programs in missile defense and develop veteran resource programs for counseling, vocational training and college education.

McKeon, elected to his 10th term in November, also is a senior member of the House Education and Labor Committee.

He previously was the lead Republican on the Education and the Workforce Committee for more than three years before becoming the Armed Services panel’s top Republican member.

McKeon led the committee as chairman in early 2006 after John Boehner became House majority leader.

He is a founder of the Congressional Unmanned Systems Caucus, which aims to educate citizens and lawmakers on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles and work with civil aviation stakeholders on UAV safety.

McKeon also helped found the Republican New Media Caucus, a group where members discuss and share ideas on technology policy and encourage each other to use new communications technologies in reaching out to constituents.

Prior to his election to Congress in 1992, he served on the board of trustees for the William S. Hart Union High School District Board of Trustees between 1978 and 1987, then was elected to the Santa Clarita city council after it was incorporated.

McKeon also holds the distinction of serving as the city’s first mayor and helped lead expansion of the city’s sheriff’s and parks programs.

Robert Hale serves as comptroller at the Defense Department, where he is responsible for the Pentagon’s budget and financial policy and advises the secretary on budget and fiscal matters.

Hale, nominated to the post in January 2009, also oversees financial management systems and business modernization efforts.

He also serves as a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and has previously served on the Defense Business Board.

Between 1994 and 2001, he served as the Air Force’s comptroller and assistant secretary of financial management, where he oversaw budgets of more than $70 billion annually and let efforts to streamline the branch’s financial management practices.

Prior to that position, he led the Congressional Budget Office’s national security division, where he developed analyses of defense budget issues and testified before congressional committees.

Prior to becoming Pentagon comptroller, he served as executive director of the American Society of Military Comptrollers, a professional association of defense financial managers.

He also led training programs, a professional journal and the ASMC’s annual National Professional Development Institute conference, which more than 3,500 participants attend, according to the organization.

While in the private sector, Hale led the acquisition and grants management group at federal service consulting firm LMI, where he also served as a senior fellow.

Hale has served in the U.S. Navy for three years as an active duty officer and also has served as a staff analyst and study director at the Center for Naval Analyses.

The certified defense financial manager graduated with honors from Stanford University with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and statistics and also holds two master’s degrees, one in operations research from Stanford and the other as an M.B.A. from George Washington University.

Mr. Hale graduated with honors from Stanford University with a B.S. in mathematics and statistics. He also holds a Master’s degree in operations research from Stanford and an MBA from the George Washington University.

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Frank Kendall serves as defense under secretary for acquisition, technology and logistics, having been confirmed for this post in May 2012.

He reports to the defense secretary on matters regarding acquisition, research, engineering, developmental testing, contract administration, logistics, materiel readiness, installations, environment, operational energy, weapons of mass destruction, the acquisition workforce and the defense industrial base.

Prior to this appointment, he served as principal deputy under secretary between March 2010 and May 2012 and also as acting undersecretary before his confirmation.

According to the Pentagon, Kendall is a four-decade veteran of engineering, management, defense acquisition and national security affairs in private industry, government and the military.

Within the private sector, he served as vice president of engineering for Raytheon and oversaw internal research and development there. He has also served as a managing partner at Renaissance Strategic Advisors, a Virginia-based aerospace and defense sector consulting firm.

He has also consulted defense industry firms, non-profit research organizations and the Defense Department on strategic planning, engineering management and technology assessment.

His government career includes service as director of tactical warfare programs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and as assistant deputy under secretary for strategic defense systems.

Kendall is a former member of both the Army Science Board and the Defense Intelligence Agency‘s science and technology advisory board. He also was a consultant to the Defense Science Board and a senior adviser to the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

His 10-year Army career includes active duty service in Germany, a teaching position in engineering at the U.S. Military Academy and research and development positions.

He is a recipient of military awards including the Meritorious Service Medal with oak leaf cluster, Army Commendation Medal and the National Defense Service Medal.

As an attorney, he worked several human rights cases on a pro bono basis with Amnesty International USA, the Tahrih Justice Center and with Human Rights First. He served as board chairman at the Tahrih Center and on the board of directors at Amnesty International.

Federal civilian awards he has received include the Defense Distinguished Civilian Service Medal, Secretary of Defense Meritorious Civilian Service Medal, Presidential Rank Award of Distinguished Executive, Presidential Rank Award of Meritorious Executive and the Army Commander’s Award for Civilian Service.

He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy and holds a master’s degree in aerospace engineering from the California Institute of Technology, an M.B.A. from the C.W. Post Center of Long Island University and a juris doctorate from the Georgetown University Law Center.

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Mike Rodrigue serves as deputy director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, where since June 2012 he has formulated policy, managed agency resources and led operational activities.

Rodrigue, who joined the Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service in 2000, has since led the agency’s development strategic initiative and served as director for NGA’s vision integration team, which is responsible for coordinating and integrating activities aimed at helping NGA achieve its vision and strategic initiatives.

Before joining the VIT team, he served as director for NGA’s new campus east program management office, responsible for leading four government and 14 commercial partners to plan and execute the agency’s relocation to its new Springfield, Va. campus.

He is a recipient of the Meritorious Executive Presidential Rank Award and the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal.

Prior to entering federal service, Rodrigue served for 20 years in the U.S. Army and held leadership assignments in both Korea and the U.S., including joint assignments in U.S. Pacific Command and the Defense Mapping Agency, NGA’s former name.

He also was an assistant professor in computer science and topographic research at the U.S. Military Academy and served as DMA’s representative to U.S. Central Command Forward during the 1991 Persian Gulf War.

His military awards include the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star and Joint Meritorious Service Medal.

Rodrigue holds a bachelor’s degree in nuclear engineering from West Point and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech.

Michael Krieger serves as deputy chief information officer/G6 for the U.S. Army, where he leads implementation of the Army’s strategic direction for the network and enterprise network infrastructure.

The Army CIO/G-6 oversees the branch’s $10 billion information technology investment portfolio, manages the enterprise IT architecture, establishes and enforces IT policies and directs delivery of operational IT services in C4 (command, control, communications and computers).

Krieger assumed his current post in July 2008 and additionally served as acting CIO from November 2009 through March 2010.

The senior executive has also served as principal director for the Defense Department‘s deputy CIO and as director for information policy and integration in the office of the department’s CIO.

Prior to his civilian career, he served 25 years in the Army and held operational assignments in tactical communications and command and control.

Krieger holds a bachelor’s degree from the United States Military Academy and two master’s degrees, one in physics from Georgia Tech and the other in national security strategy from the National Defense University.

Martin Gross serves as a program executive officer at the Defense Information Systems Agency, holding executive management and acquisition oversight responsibilities for programs and projects encompassing command and control, combat support and information sharing services.

Prior to this position, he served as deputy PEO for Global Information Grid enterprise services, overseeing programs and projects in net-centric enterprise information sharing services.

Gross first joined the federal acquisition community in 2001, initially serving as program manager for the Global Combat Support System and subsequently serving as chief of the Combat Support Center and senior program manager in the office of the component acquisition executive.

In 2006, he was assigned to the National Security Council, where he served as program manager for the renovation of the White House Situation Room.

After the renovation completed, he moved into the Executive Office of the President to serve as a special projects coordinator for
the deputy chief of staff.

He returned to DISA to serve as the vice acquisition executive.

Gross holds an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from Drexel University, performed graduate studies at Virginia Tech and also attended both the Federal Executive Institute and the Defense Systems Management College.

He is a member of the Defense Acquisition Corps and is level-three certified in the program management career field.

Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Jon Davis serves as deputy commander of Fort Meade, Md.-based U.S. Cyber Command, having been appointed to this position as of June 2012.

Davis previously served at Fort Meade from 2006 to 2008 as deputy commander of the joint functional component command for network warfare.

Prior to joining Cybercom, the 33-year military veteran served as commander of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing between July 2010 and May 2012 and as deputy assistant commandant for aviation for the two years prior.

Staff billet services includes a two-year tour as a member of the 31st Commandant’s Staff Group and two years as the junior military assistant to the deputy defense secretary.

In 2003, he served as an Assistant Operations Officer on the 3rd Marine Air Wing staff in Kuwait during the Iraq War and then in 2004 he became officer in charge of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Red Team.

According to the Marine Corps, he has flown more than 4,500 mishap free hours in the AV-8 and other fixed, tilt-rotor and rotary-winged aircraft.

He was commissioned in May 1980, completed Basic School in August 1980 and received his wings in September 1982 to fly the AV-8.

Davis reported to VMAT-203 in October 1982, completed Harrier training and reported to VMA-231 in 1983 for deployment aboard the U.S.S. Inchon.

In 1985, he transferred to VMAT-203 serving as an instructor pilot, then attended the WTI course at MAWTS- and transferred to VMA-223 in 1987 for assignment as the “Bulldogs” WTI and operations officer.

Davis represented the Marines as an exchange officer with the British air force in 1988 and deployed to Gutersloh, Germany after training, where he served as a GR-5/7 attack pilot.

Upon return to the U.S. in 1991, he served as an instructor in Yuma, Ariz. and took command of VMA-223 in October 1998.

VMA-223 won the CNO Safety Award and the Sanderson Trophy two years in a row during his tenure there and the USMC says the team exceeded 40,000 hours of mishap-free operations.

After completing the Executive Helicopter Familiarization Course at HT-18 in Pensacola in 2003, he was assigned to MAWTS-1, where he served as executive officer and then as commanding officer from 2004 to 2006.

His personal decorations include the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, two Defense Superior Service Medals, two Legion of Merit awards, three Meritorious Service Medals and three Navy Commendations.

Davis graduated with honors from The Basic School and was a distinguished graduate of the Marine Corps Command and Staff College.

He is also a graduate of the Tactical Air Control Party Course, Amphibious Warfare School, Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Instructor Course, School of Advanced Warfighting and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Davis holds a bachelor’s degree from Allegheny College, a master’s degree from Marine Corps University and a master’s in international public policy from Johns Hopkins, concentrated in East and Southeast Asian affairs.

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David Ahern serves as deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategic and tactical systems, working under the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition.

Ahern’s office is responsible for portfolio management, technical and programmatic evaluation and functional oversight of the Defense Department‘s strategic and tactical programs.

Before joining the Pentagon, Ahern served as a professor of program management and director of the Center for Program Management at the Defense Acquisition University in Fort Belvoir, Va.

At DAU, Ahern also served as an executive course learning team mentor and instructor at the Defense System Management College School of Program Management.

Before joining the DAU faculty, he held business development, program management and business unit positions at General Dynamics and Northrop Grumman in developing tactical information systems

Ahern also served in the Navy as an aviator in the RA5C Vigilante for deployments in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters and as executive and commanding officer of Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron Thirty Three.

His shore-based assignments included service as head of the tactical command and control branch on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations; project officer in the Navy Space Project; class two program manager at the Joint JTIDS Program Office; program manager for Navy tactical data link systems; and deputy program executive officer for space, communications and sensors.