Rodney Grandon serves as deputy general counsel for contractor responsibility and conflict resolution for the U.S. Air Force, with responsibility in giving legal advice to senior Air Force and Defense Department officials over contractor responsibility matters.

Grandon oversees the Air Force’s Procurement Fraud Remedies Program and Alternative Dispute Resolution/Conflict Resolution Program.

He was previously the chief of procurement law and chief trial attorney for the U.S. Coast Guard from 2011 to 2012.

Prior to that, Grandon served as assistant deputy general counsel for contractor responsibility at the Air Force between 2007 and 2011.

He earned a bachelor’s degree from Iowa State University, Juris Doctor from Drake University Law School and master of laws from The Army Judge Advocate General’s School.

Eric Sporre serves as acting deputy assistant director of FBI‘s cyber division and manages the unit’s operational branch.

He was previously in charge of the cyberterrorism and Middle East-Africa units within the cyber division and also worked on FBI’s activities against white-collar crime.

He has headed the computer forensic squad and the undercover and regional backstopping operations for FBI’s Washington field office and served as assistant special agent in charge of cyber, counterintelligence and administrative programs in the Atlanta division.

Sporre was also assigned to the U.K. in 2009 as assistant legal attache for counterterrorism and Ireland-related investigative matters.

Andy Ozment serves as assistant secretary for cybersecurity and communications at the Department of Homeland Security‘s national protections and programs directorate.

He supervises a team of DHS professionals who work to manage the security of U.S. cyber and communication assets.

Before he joined the department, Ozment served as the White House’s senior director of cybersecurity and helped develop national policies related to infrastructure protection, executive branch security, privacy, civil liberties, information sharing and incident response management.

He also oversaw the federal government’s efforts to develop and implement the Executive Order on Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace and the Cross Agency Priority goal for cybersecurity.

Ozment also worked in cybersecurity positions at the Defense Department, the National Security Agency, Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory, Merrill Lynch and Nortel Networks.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Georgia Institute of Technology, as well as a master’s degree in international relations from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D degree in computer science from University of Cambridge.

Terry Halvorsen took on the responsibilities as chief information officer for the Department of Defense in March 2015.

The Pentagon CIO serves as principal adviser to the defense secretary on various aspects of information technology, data management, satellite communications, timing programs, navigation, telecommunications and other non-intelligence space platforms.

Halvorsen is also responsible for the delivery of IT platforms and services necessary to support a wide range of missions across the agency.

He is a former Department of the Navy’s CIO and deputy commander of the Navy Cyber Forces.

Halvorsen worked for four years as deputy commander of the Naval Network Warfare Command and helped manage the service branch’s knowledge management, space, information and network operations.

The Excellence in Government Leadership Fellow was involved in Operation Desert Storm and other assignments for the U.S. Army as an intelligence officer.

Halvorsen graduated from Widener University with a bachelor’s degree in history and from the University of West Florida with a master’s degree in educational technology.

David Bray has served as the chief information officer of the Federal Communications Commission since 2013 and is in charge of the agency’s information technology transformation efforts.

His team won the Association for Federal Information Resources Management’s 2015 cloud computing leadership award for the rollout of a new cloud-based IT at FCC.

Bray also received this year’s Outstanding Achievement Award for Civilian Government from the Armed Forces Communications and Electronic Association.

He has worked as a project manager at a Microsoft partner firm and Yahoo, IT chief of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‘s bioterrorism preparedness and response program and executive director of the National Commission for the Review of the Research and Development Programs of the United States Intelligence Community.

Bray is a Senior National Intelligence Service Executive, an Eisenhower Fellow to Taiwan and Australia and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Camron Gorguinpour is the director of transformational innovation within the office of the assistant secretary of the U.S. Air Force for acquisitions, with responsibility in executing reform programs.

Gorguinpour also serves as executive director for the Defense Department Plug-In Electric Vehicle Program, where he works to help integrate PEV’s efforts into DoD’s non-tactical vehicle fleet.

He previously served as executive director for Scientists & Engineers for America before joining the DoD.

As a six-year co-founder and executive director, Gorguinpour also helped the Space Science Outreach and Research develop two public charter schools in collaboration with NASA, the University of California at Berkeley, and the Cesar E. Chavez Foundation.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in astrophysics and physics from UC Berkeley and a doctor’s degree in bioengineering from the UC Berkeley/UC San Francisco Joint Graduate Program.

Philip Bourne serves as the associate director of data science at the National Institutes of Health and specializes in research and other activities that drive the accessibility of scientific data to aid the national biomedical community.

His work covers areas such as machine learning, text mining, metalanguages and visualization in support of systems pharmacology, immunology, scientific dissemination and similar programs.

Before joining NIH in 2014, Bourne worked at the University of California in San Diego as associate vice chancellor for innovation and industry alliances and a professor in the pharmacology department and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

He also served as associate director of the RCSB Protein Data Bank and adjunct professor at the Sanford Burnham Institute and co-founded ViSoft, Protein Vision, SciVee and the PLOS Computational Biology journal.

Bourne is an elected fellow at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Medical Informatics Association and International Society for Computational Biology.

Heidi Shyu serves as assistant Army secretary for acquisition, logistics and technology.

She oversees the Army’s logistics operations, acquisition system and lifecycle management of weapons platforms and equipment.

Shyu also leads the Army Acquisition Workforce and the Army Acquisition Corps and manages the department’s chemical weapons elimination program.

Before joining the agency, she previously worked at Raytheon’s space and airborne systems business as vice president of technology strategy.

She also helped develop Tile Active Electronically Scanned Antenna platforms during her tenure as director of Joint Strike Fighter antenna technologies at Raytheon.

She has also held a range of executive positions at defense contractors and aerospace firms including Hughes Aircraft, Grumman and Litton Industries and spent a decade as a member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board.

Shyu graduated from the University of New Brunswick with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics.

She also has a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of California Los Angeles and a master’s degree in mathematics from the University of Toronto.

Jerry McGinn is the principal deputy director for the U.S. Defense Department‘s office of manufacturing and industrial base policy and holds responsibility over the development of studies, guidelines and policies concerning the defense industrial supply chain.

He rejoined DoD in July 2015 after leading Virginia-based McGinn Defense Consulting as president.

Between July 2012 and October 2014, he served as a specialist leader at Deloitte, where he led business development activities in the security cooperation sector and thought leadership programs with multiple trade groups.

McGinn also worked at QinetiQ North America from November 2011 to March 2012 as vice president of strategic initiatives.

Before that, he was corporate director of international government relations at Northrop Grumman and oversaw export policy advocacy initiatives to help grow the company’s work through the U.S. foreign military sales program.

He also served as special assistant to the DoD principal deputy undersecretary and as a political scientist at public policy research firm Rand Corp.

McGinn is also a former U.S. Army infantry officer and chaired TechAmerica Foundation’s international defense task force and the Project for the Common Defense group’s defense reform committee.

He also became a part of the Aerospace Industries Association, British American Business Association, National Defense Industries Association, NATO Industrial Advisory Group and Defense Science Board.

He authored publications about security cooperation, acquisition reform, direct commercial and foreign military sales, technology transfer, defense contracting, industrial base policy and national security.

McGinn holds a bachelor’s degree in modern European history from the U.S. Military Academy, as well as master’s degrees in foreign service and history and a Ph.D. degree in history from Georgetown University.

Anita Bales has served as director of the Defense Contract Audit Agency since the end of August 2014 and is in charge of the agency’s global operations and resources.

She provides executive direction to DCAA’s professional auditors and other personnel as well as oversees program planning, development, implementation and evaluation in support of its contract audit mission.

Bales has been on the Senior Executive Service since 2006 and has held other audit leadership roles with the U.S. Army in both domestic and international assignments.

Prior to her current role, she was deputy director of DCAA, deputy auditor general of the Army Audit Agency‘s forces and financial audits division and program director of the financial management audits division.

She is a member of the American Society of Military Comptrollers, Association of Government Accountants and Association of the U.S. Army.

Bales is also a certified public accountant, information systems auditor and government financial manager as well as a recipient of awards such as the President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency Award for Auditing.