Matthew McCormack is the chief information security officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency, where he is responsible for cyber protection of the agency’s global information system infrastructure by performing strategic information assurance planning, assessing infrastructure protection mechanisms and developing technical and policy guidelines.

He also advises the agency’s director and chief information officer on information assurance and cybersecurity matters and supports the agency’s responsibilities in this area as defined in national, defense and intelligence community policies.

McCormack entered federal service in 2004 at the Internal Revenue Service as the chief security architect, responsible for secure application development across the service.

Three years later, he entered the Senior Executive Service as director for security engineering at the IRS and became director of cybersecurity operations in 2008, holding responsibility for maintaining security functions across the enterprise.

During his career as a U.S. Navy cryptologic officer, he served as a mobile network security team lead for the Naval Security Group and as an airborne intelligence collections officer on the EP-3E aircraft.

While stationed at NSGA Bahrain, he helped support the enforcement of a no-fly zone over Iraq, the war in Afghanistan and the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, where DIA says he accrued more than 2,200 hours of flight time.

McCormack holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering and a master’s degree in operations research from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, as well as an M.B.A. from the University of West Florida.

He also holds technical certifications as a Certified Information System Security Professional and a Certified Secure Software Development.

As the Defense Department’s chief information officer, Teri Takai serves as the principal adviser to the defense secretary on matters regarding information management and information technology, non-intelligence space systems, satellite communications, navigation and timing programs.

She also advises the secretary on spectrum and telecommunications.

In July, she discussed a report on the use of government-held spectrum by unmanned aerial vehicles on the heels of a White House spectrum report (click over to our sister site TheNewNewInternet’s coverage of that report and Takai’s comments).

Takai in July joined the Board of the First Responder Network Authority, which will oversee deployment of a nationwide wireless broadband network for first responders (click here to read our coverage of the board’s formation and mission).

As CIO, Takai is also responsible for providing strategy, leadership and guidance to create the department’s information management and technology vision and for delivering information technology-based capabilities for the department’s missions.

Prior to joining the Pentagon in April 2010, Takai previously served as California’s CIO, a cabinet-level position, where she advised the governor on management and direction of IT resources. During her tenure in California, Takai led more than 130 CIOs and 10,000 IT employees across the state’s agencies, departments, boards, commissions and offices.

She also pursued the development of a project management and policy office, release of the state’s strategic IT plan, passage of the governor’s IT reorganization proposal, establishing a capital planning process and directing agency consolidation activities.

Prior to her appointment in California, Takai had served as director of Michigan’s IT department since 2003 and also served as CIO. There, she merged the state’s IT into one central department serving 19 agencies.

The Center for Digital Government selected Michigan as the number one state in digital government four years in a row during her tenure. In 2005, Governing magazine named her “Public Official of the Year.”

She has served as president of the National Association of State Chief Information Officers and currently serves on the Harvard Policy Group on Network-Enabled Services and Government.

Takai’s private sector career includes 30 years at the Ford Motor Company and technology positions at EDS and Federal-Mogul Corp. At Ford, she led the development of the company’s strategic IT plan.

She holds Master of Arts degree in management and a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics from the University of Michigan.

Andre Gudger is director of the Defense Department’s Small Business Programs Office, where since March 2011 he has served as principal adviser and staff to the defense secretary on small business-related matters.

According to the department, he spent 17 years in the defense, intelligence and investment banking industries prior to his current position. That experience includes financial and technical initiatives at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Union Bank of Switzerland and AT&T.

Between 2003 and 2009, he served as chairman and CEO of Solvern Innovations, which provides acquisition and cyber support through training, research and product development. During his tenure as chief executive, the company provided software development and commercialization through technology transfer to the Human Computer Interaction
Lab at the University of Maryland.

In 2003, Mr. Gudger was presented the Granville T. Woods Award for Innovation from The National Association of Black Telecommunications Professionals.

Solver Innovations was acquired by Telecommunication Systems Inc. in 2009 and Gudger joined TCS, where he served as senior vice president of the cyber intelligence division.

Gudger has served on several boards in the Washington metropolitan region including the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, the Maryland BRAC Small & Minority Business Advisory Board and the Cyber Advisory Council.

He has also served as senior executive of the Art of Exploitation University and Cyber Center of Excellence and architect of the Computer Network Operations Training and Scientific Development Program, which provided services to the Defense Department.

Additional experience includes service as telecommunications director for the National Cryptologic School, Center for Business Management, Acquisition and Systems Engineering.

Gudger holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Maryland and an M.B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While at UNC, he studied at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Erasmus University in the Netherlands, Tec de Monterrey in Mexico, Fundacao Vargus University in Brazil and Gdansk University in Poland.

Mark Borkowski is assistant commissioner for the Customs and Border Protection agency’s office of technology innovation and acquisition, overseeing the agency’s initiatives to align technology with missions.

He is also responsible for acquisition and program management within the organization.

As CBP’s component acquisition executive, he evaluates whether acquisitions support a mission requirement and are integrated across CBP components where needed.

Previously, he served as executive director of the program executive office overseeing the Department of Homeland Security‘s Secure Border Initiative within CBP. He oversaw SBI’s implementation at CBP and efforts to develop border security resources for CBP personnel working at the U.S. borders.

Before his assignment to SBI, he served as executive director for mission support at U.S. Border Patrol, where he helped the agency’s chief carry out the agency’s $2 billion annual budget and manage a workforce of more than 17,000 agents and support personnel.

He also oversaw workforce management, labor and employee relations, finance, logistics, recruitment, training, facilities and tactical infrastructure. As a DHS Level III certified program manager, he provided expert advice and support to the agency chief regarding SBInet, a technology program within SBI.

According to CBP, Borkowski directed a contracted effort to reorganize Border Patrol to respond to growth in the organization driven by a presidential mandate. He oversaw a division of 75 personnel across six geographic locations.

Prior to leading mission support, he served as director for asset management in CBP’s office of sir and marine, where he oversaw acquisition and sustainment for CBP’s aircraft and marine assets.

Before joining CBP, he served as NASA‘s program executive for the Robotic Lunar Exploration Program,  where he oversaw the development and operation of robotic precursor missions to the moon as stage-setters for eventual human missions.

Prior to that, he served as the assistant deputy associate administrator for development programs in NASA’s exploration systems mission directorate, where he helped to oversee the technology, development, and acquisition programs to implement the President’s Vision for Space Exploration.

He also served as the program executive overseeing the Hubble Space Telescope robotic servicing and de-orbit mission and as the ESMD coordinator for NASA’s Exploration Transportation Strategic Roadmap. While at NASA, Borkowski was elected vice president of the International Lunar Exploration Working Group, a consortium of national space agencies and commercial partners supporting initiatives for international collaboration in lunar exploration.

The retired Air Force colonel served in the military for 23 years, with his last assignment as system program director for the Space Based Infrared Systems program office, where he oversaw satellite programs including the Defense Support Program, SBIRS-High and SBIRS-Low.

He has also served as support group commander at Eglin Air Force Base; chief of the programming division at Air Force Material Command’s headquarters; assistant chief of staff at the branch’s ballistic missile defense organization.

As a frequent public speaker, he has represented the Air Force, NASA and CBP at international conferences, academic and professional seminars, congressional members and staff and the press.

Borkowski holds two master’s degrees, one in aeronautical engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology and the other in national resource strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. He also holds two bachelor’s degrees, one in aeronautical engineering from AFIT and the other in mathematics from the State University of New York at Albany.

He is a recipient of the Air Force Association’s Lieutenant General John W. O’Neill Outstanding System Program Director Award; the Company Grade Officer of the Year and the Manager of the Year Awards from the Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory; the Air Force Systems Command nominations for the “Ten Outstanding Young Americans” award; several military medals and decorations; and civil service performance awards.

Michael O’Hanlon is a senior fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, where he specializes in U.S. defense strategy, the use of military force, homeland security and American foreign policy.

He is also a visiting lecturer at Princeton University, an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

O’Hanlon’s experience in federal service includes five years as an analyst at the Congressional Budget Office and two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly known as Zaire, where he taught college and high school physics in French.

His most recent books are “A Skeptic’s Case for Nuclear Disarmament,” “The Science of War” and “Budgeting for Hard Power.” The institute says he is working on books on Afghanistan and the future of nuclear weapons policy while contributing to Brookings’ Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan indices.

He is also the author of “Hard Power: The New Politics of National Security” with Kurt Campbell; “A War Like No Other,” about the U.S.-China relationship and the Taiwan issue with Richard Bush; the multi-author volume “Protecting the Homeland 2006/2007”; “Defense Strategy for the Post-Saddam Era;” “The Future of Arms Control” with Michael Levi; and “Neither Star Wars nor Sanctuary: Constraining the Military Uses of Space.”

Together with Mike Mochizuki, he wrote “Crisis on the Korean Peninsula” in 2003 and also wrote “Expanding Global Military Capacity for Humanitarian Intervention” that same year.

O’Hanlon contributes op-ed pieces for newspapers such as the Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Times and the Japan Times. He has also contributed to the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal and works as a commentator for Alhurra television.

According to the institute, O’Hanlon has appeared on television or radio about 2,000 times since Sept. 11, 2001.

He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton in public and international affairs and both bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Princeton in the physical sciences.

Jose Rodriguez is a 31-year veteran of the CIA, where he most recently served as director of the National Clandestine Service prior to retirement in January 2008.

As head of the NCS, he was responsible for coordinating human operations across the U.S. intelligence community.

In January 2013, he joined strategy and professional services firm Novitas Group LLC as managing partner for strategic affairs (click over to GovCon Executive for more on his role there).

Between 2002 and late 2004, he served as director of the CIA’s counterterrorism center, having responsibility for worldwide intelligence collection programs and covert action operations against international terrorist organizations following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. He has also served as deputy director of the agency’s CIA’s counternarcotics center and chief of the agency’s Latin America division.

During his career, he served in seven overseas assignments and was chief of station four times.

Most recently, he served as an account executive in IBM’s intelligence practice until March 2012, after which he left to promote his book “Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives,” which was published April 30.

In April, Rodriguez was featured in a two-part interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes.”

After retiring from federal service, he became a consultant and the managing mirector of J-ROD Strategies. In September 2008, he became senior vice president at Edge Consulting, a national interest security company acquired by IBM in 2010.

He served on the board of directors at MVM Inc. between 2009 and 2011.

Rodriguez is a recipient of the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Award, the George H.W. Bush Award for Excellence in Counterterrorism, the Defense Intelligence Director’s Award and three Director of Central Intelligence Awards.

David Bottom is director of the information technology services directorate at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a component organization responsible for helping the agency move to a services-based delivery model for getting IT services to NGA, U.S. allies and the GEOINT community.

Bottom began serving in this position in February 2012 after previously leading the enterprise operations directorate as acting director. In that capacity, he led a government and contractor team responsible for engineering, acquiring, operating and securing NGA’s worldwide IT and information services infrastructure.

He was also responsible for ensuring continuous systems operations and exploitation of technology to ensure operation and sustainment of the NSG infrastructure around the globe.

Previous line management positions at NGA include deputy director of enterprise operations and director of the ISP Core Services Office, where he was the principal executive responsible for the operations and sustainment of the NGA and NSG IT Infrastructure, including a round-the-clock operations center.

Past program management assignments include service as the agency’s first assistant CIO for infrastructure and NGA IT Infrastructure Program Manager, where he was responsible for developing and executing major IT infrastructure acquisition, systems engineering and operations programs, including IT acquisition for NGA Campus East, the Agency’s new headquarters in Springfield, Va.

Prior to joining NGA, Dave served as an officer in the CIA where he entered into federal service in 1997. At CIA, he served as the program manager for the NIMA/CIA Network Connectivity Program. He also managed large scale network upgrades in several agency campuses, and led the government and contractor team responsible for operations and sustainment of the CIA’s networks in the Washington metropolitan area.

Before entering federal service, he worked in a professional services firm under contract to the Naval Sea Systems Command’s Aegis program office, where he was responsible for contract execution and business development.

Bottom holds a master’s degree in management information systems from George Washington University and a bachelor’s degree in marine transportation from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy. He is also a graduate of the Senior Manager’s in Government Program at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and the Defense Department’s CAPSTONE Flag Officer’s Program.

In 2010, Bottom was selected as a Senior Professional to the Meritorious Presidential Rank.

Navy Adm. Tim Keating retired from military service in December 2009, when he completed a three-year term as commander of the Honolulu-based U.S. Pacific Command.

As Paccom lead, he was responsible for a geographic area comprised of nearly 3.4 billion people and half the surface of the earth. He visited more 30 countries, met diplomats, military officials and commercial leaders to promote engagement with national and international partners in the Asia-Pacific region.

Prior to leading Paccom, the 38-year veteran served as commander of both Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado. As Northcom lead, he was responsible for helping protect the U.S. and providing support to federal, state and local officials during crises.

NORAD is responsible for providing aerospace warning, air sovereignty and defense to the U.S. and Canada.

Previous assignments include director of the Joint Staff in the Pentagon; command of the U.S. Fifth Fleet and all naval forces in the Bahrain-based U.S. Central Command; deputy chief of naval operations for plans, policy and operations; command of the USS Kitty Hawk Battle Group stationed in Japan; and deputy director for operations-current operations in the Joint Staff.

Keating has also held command positions at the Naval Strike Warfare Center, a carrier air and an F-18 squadron.

He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1971 and was a Chief of Naval Operations Fellow with the Strategic Studies Group in Newport, R.I. He has accumulated more than 5,000 hours of flight time in tactical jets and has landed on Navy aircraft carriers more than 1,200 times.

Along with the U.S., he has received decorations from the U.K., Bahrain, Canada, Japan, South Korea, the Phillipines, Taiwan and Singapore.

Keating is a member of the Naval Postgraduate School Board of Advisors, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Navy-Marine Association, is a Trustee for the Naval Aviation Museum, serves on the Virginia Commision for Military and National Security Affairs, the Secretary of the Navy Advisory Panel and is an international strategic adviser for several corporations.

Todd Grams serves as chief financial officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs, where he is also executive-in-charge for the VA’s office of management.

In this capacity, he oversees a $130 billion budget and is responsible for the department’s financial management, performance management, business oversight and asset enterprise management programs.

Before becoming CFO, the 20-year Senior Executive Service veteran was appointed as the VA’s principal deputy assistant secretary for management Nov. 8, 2009.

This is Gram’s second stint at the VA, having served as the first chief financial officer at the Veterans Health Administration and holding responsibility for budget, finance, CHAMPVA, Medical Care Cost Recovery, DoD-VA Sharing and acquisitions. In 2001, Mr. Grams served as the VA’s deputy CFO.

Prior to re-joining the VA, he served as CFO at the National Institute of Standards and Technology from July 2006 to November 2009 and held oversight responsibility for the agency’s administrative offices in information technology, human resources, facilities, construction, finance, acquisitions, grants, budget, safety and security.

From 2003 to 2006, he served as chief information officer at the Internal Revenue Service and served as CFO there for the two years prior. As CIO, he led the agency’s nationwide IT functions totaling $2 billion and 7,000 staff. As CFO, he was responsible for overseeing the agency’s $10 billion operating budget and the accounting of $2 billion in tax receipts.

Before initially joining the VA in 1994, he held several positions at the Office of Management and Budget for nine years including appropriations bill tracker, budget examiner and chief of the veterans affairs branch.

Grams began his federal career in 1980 as a Census Bureau budget analyst.

He is a recipient of the Partnership for Public Services’ Service to America Medal for Management Excellence in 2011 and three Presidential Rank Awards.

Grams received the Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished Service in 2006 while with the IRS and in 2000 while with VA. In 1997, he received the Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Service at VA.

Grams graduated from the University of Maryland in 1980 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics.

Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn is director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, having succeeded Lt. Gen. Ronald Burgess in July to become the agency’s 18th director and assume leadership of 16,000 professionals.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta nominated Flynn to lead the DIA in April after serving as assistant director of national intelligence for partner engagement since 2001.

Flynn has also served in director of intelligence posts at the Joint Staff; U.S. Central Command with duty in Afghanistan and Iraq; Joint Special Operations Command with duty in Afghanistan and Iraq; International Security Assistance Force-Afghanistan; and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan.

Other command and staff positions include commander of the 313th Military Intelligence Battalion and G2, 82nd Airborne Division; G2, 18th Airborne Corps, CJ2, CJTF-180 in Afghanistan; and commander of the 111th Military Intelligence Brigade at the Army’s Intelligence Center at Fort Huachuca, Ariz.

Flynn has served multiple tours at Fort Bragg, N.C. where he deployed with the 82nd Airborne Division as a platoon leader in Grenada and as chief of joint war plans for JTF-180 in Haiti.

He also served with the 25th Infantry Division at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii and as the senior observer and controller for Intelligence at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, La.

Flynn holds an undergraduate degree in management science from the University of Rhode Island and holds three graduate degrees: an M.B.A. in telecommunications from Golden Gate University, San Francisco; a master’s degree in military arts and sciences from Fort Leavenworth, Kan.; and a master’s of in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College.

He also holds an honorary doctorate of laws from the Institute of World Politics in Washington.

Flynn is also a graduate of the Army’s Intelligence Officer basic, advanced, and electronic warfare courses; the Combined Armed Services Staff Course; the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and School of Advanced Military Studies; and the U.S. Naval War College.

He is a recipient of the Defense Superior Service Medal with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters, Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster, Bronze Star Medal with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters, Meritorious Service Medal with Silver Oak Leaf Cluster, Joint Service Commendation Medal, Army Commendation Medal with 4 Oak Leaf Clusters, the NATO Service Medal, the Ranger Tab and Master Parachutist Badge and the Joint Staff Identification Badge.