Carleton is the Chief Information Officer for the Department of Health and Human Services. This position also carries the title of Deputy Assistant Secretary for Information Technology.

Carleton was the former Deputy Director of the Office of Information Resources Management as well as CIO for the Office of the Secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services. After this, he served as the CIO for GSA for 7 years. Then he made his return back to the Department of Health and Human Services for his current role.

Carleton graduated from Syracuse University where he earned a Master of Science in information Resources Management. He later earned a Master’s in Public Administration from Northeastern University. Additionally, Carleton is a distinguished alumnus of the National Defense University’s Information Resources Management and the Society for Information Management International’s Regional Leadership Forum.

Gates is the 22^nd secretary of defense for the Department of Defense. He is the only secretary of defense who has ever been asked to remain in office by a new president.

Prior to this position, Gates was president of Texas A&M University. Before that, he was the interim dean of the George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. Gates served as an intelligence professional in the CIA for 27 years. During his time at the CIA, he spent several years at the National Security Council and the White House where he served four different presidents. Following that, he was the director of central intelligence.

Gates also has a military background. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force, and he also served as an intelligence officer. Additionally, Gates has received numerous awards during his career, including the National Security Medal, the Presidential Citizens Medal, the National intelligence Distinguished Service Medal on two separate occasions, and the Distinguished Intelligence Medal on three separate occasions.

Gates graduated from the College of William and Mary, where he earned his bachelor’s degree. He later earned his master’s degree in history from Indiana University. After Indiana, he attended Georgetown University, where he earned a doctorate in Russian and Soviet history.

Gordon is currently the GAO Acting General Counsel. In this role, he manages 150 attorneys who support GAO’s work. Before Acting General Counsel, Gordon was managing associate general counsel for GAO’s Procurement Law Division, as well as the assistant general counsel for it Legal Services Division.

Gordon is the current nominee to be administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy at the Office of Management and Budget.  He vowed to the senate to focus on the development of the procurement workforce if he is confirmed.

He has been with the GAO since 1992. Prior to working at GAO, Gordon worked in private practice focusing on the area of federal procurement. He also clerked for the U.S Court of the Appeals. Gordon also has been an adjunct professor at GWU since 2002, and he is a member of the American Bar Association’s Section of Public Contract Law.

Gordon is a graduate of Brandeis University, where he earned a degree in politics. He later earned a Master’s Degree in politics from Oxford University. Following that, he earned his J.D from Harvard Law.

Krieger is the Deputy Chief Information Officer/G-6 of the Department of the Army. He is also a Senior Executive and has vast amount of experience in IT and Information Management. Additionally, Krieger has served in the U.S Army for 25 years in various positions.

Prior to his role as Deputy CIO, he was the Principal Director for the Deputy Department of Defense CIO. Another prior position Krieger held was Director for Information Policy and Integration in the Office of the Department of Defense CIO.

Krieger is a graduate of the United States Military Academy. He later earned a Master’s in Physics from Georgia Institute of Technology. He also earned a Master’s in National Security Strategy from the National Defense University.

Adelstein is the 17^th Administrator of USDA’s Rural Utilities Service. He was nominated by President Obama and unanimously confirmed by the Senate this past July. Prior to this role, Adelstein was the Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission. He held this position for 8 years.

Adelstein is a strong supporter of improving broadband and rural telecommunications.  He believes everyone should have access to telecommunications services, regardless of where they live. He is currently overseeing a new program that will get broadband money out and according to Adelstein it will “get the funds out the door faster to stimulate the economy and create jobs.”

Prior to his work at the FCC, Adelstein was a staff member in the U.S. Senate for 15 years. During his time in the Senate, he served as senior legislative aid to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle for 7 years as well as Professional Staff Member to Senate Special Committee on Aging Chairman David Pryor. Additionally, he was a Legislative Assistant to Senator Donald W. Riegle Jr. and special liaison to Senator Harry Reid.

Before working in the Senate, he was a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University in the Department of History. He did this while he was studying at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Adelstein was also a teaching assistant at Stanford University, in the Department of History as well. Adelstein is a graduate from Phillips Academy.

Davie is the Assistant Commissioner for the Office of Assisted Acquisition Services in GSA’s Federal Acquisition Services. In this position, in the newly formed FAS, it is Davie’s role to oversee the delivery of $3.5 billion in acquisition services to federal agency customers.

Before working as the Assistant Commissioner, Davie was the Acting Assistant Commissioner in FAS. Her focuses were on marketing and business development during that time, as well as meeting customer needs.  One of her goals was to increase customer satisfaction, as well as increase awareness of GSA products and services.

Davie started working with GSA in 1989. During this time, she has held a variety of positions such as IT project manager, customer relationship account manager, FEDSIM Deputy Division Director, Assistant Commissioner for CRM and Sales in the Federal Technology Service, and acting Assistant Commissioner of Marketing in the Federal Supply Service.

Davie is a graduate of Virginia Tech, where she earned a dual degree in business finance and business management. She later earned a master’s degree from the University of Phoenix in business administration, focusing on technology management.

McConnell is the current Counselor to the Deputy Under Secretary for National Protection and Programs Directorate for the Department of Homeland Security. He has held this position since this past June and is the senior adviser to Philip Reitinger, who is the director of the National Cybersecurity Center at the Homeland Security Department. One of McConnell’s top priorities is to prepare for possible cyberthreats.

Prior to this role, McConnell was the chief of information policy and technology in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget for several years. He also previously directed the International Y2K Cooperation Center for a couple of years during the Y2k bug scare. After that work, McConnell formed his own business: McConnell International and Government Futures. This was a consultancy business that worked with clients in technology, government, as well as business. He later sold the business to Clinton Rubin LLC.

After Obama’s election, McConnell joined the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team serving as an IT Consultant. McConnell is a graduate of Stanford University, where he earned a B.S degree in Engineering. He later earned a master’s in public administration for the University of Washington.

Dr. Muñoz is the acting director of the Office of Cyberinfrastructure at the National Science Foundation. He has been working in federal services for more than 35 years. Muñoz has also been the Deputy Director for NSF for 4 years. He is also the co-chair of the federal government’s Networking and Information Technology Research and Development High-End Computing Interagency Working Group. He has held roles in several Super Computing conferences, has written several publications on high performance computing, and has served on different committees and study groups in science and technology.

He is also a member of the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society. Prior to his role as acting director, Dr. Muñoz was the Director of the Simulation and Computer Science Office in the U.S Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Agency’s Information Technology Office. Additionally, he worked at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center doing research for over 20 years. Dr. Muñoz is a graduate of University of Connecticut where he earned a Ph. D. in Computer Science.

Devon Bryan is the Internal Revenue Service’s Deputy Associate CIO for Cybersecurity. Bryan is also a member and serves on the Executive Writer’s Board of the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium Government Advisory Board.

Prior to working for the IRS, Bryan worked for the U.S Air Force for a total of 11 years. His job for the Air Force was to engineer, secure, and manage security program implementation.

Bryan is a graduate of South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, where he earned a degree in Applied Mathematics. He later earned a Masters Degree in Computer Science at Colorado Technological University.

Henry Sienkiewicz is the Technical Program Director, Computing Services Directorate for the Defense Information Systems Agency.

After college, Sienkiewicz was commissioned an infantry second lieutenant in the U.S Army. He was later promoted to captain. After 11 years of active service, Sienkiewicz began working at OAO and his position was Director for Corporate Information Services. Following OAO, he worked at User Technology Associates as its Director of Corporate Information.

After his work at User Technology Associates, Sienkiewicz moved to the travel industry, however, he continued to be a member of the U.S Army Reserve. He started off as the VP for Computer Service for the Airline Tariff Publishing Company. Shortly after this, he returned to active duty. He retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel in the summer of 2008. He left Airline Tariff Publishing Company to start Open Travel Software and was the company’s CEO until his current position.

Sienkiewicz is a graduate of Notre Dame University, where he earned a degree in Government and International Studies. He later earned a Maters of Science degree in Business from John Hopkins University.