Ken Brennan serves as the Defense Department’s deputy director for services acquisition within the office of procurement and acquisition policy, with responsibility in acquisition-related technical and programmatic evaluation efforts.

Brennan is also responsible for the governance structures and procedures the military departments and defense agencies use to implement services acquisition.

He previously managed the Department of Navy’s services acquisition between 2006 and April 2013.

Brennan started his federal career as a mechanical engineer on the Trident Test and Measurement Equipment project at the Naval Surface Warfare Center before he led the Crane Division’s Metrology and Calibration project.

He also completed a number of developmental assignments at the Naval Sea Systems Command headquarters.

Brennan holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and a master of public affairs degree at Indiana University.

Justin Herman serves as manager of government-wide social media and digital engagement programs within the General Services Administration‘s citizen services and innovative technologies office.

He leads federal efforts to transform public service delivery and oversees the SocialGov network, which comprises more than 1000 digital service leaders at more than U.S. government organizations.

Herman is also part of a White House-formed group tasked with creating a third U.S. National Action Plan for Open Government.

He oversaw the development of several government resource materials, including the U.S. Public Participation Playbook and the Federal Cyber-Vandalism Toolkit.

He was included in FierceGovernment’s list of the 15 most forward-thinking professionals in the government and named by Washington Life magazine as one of region’s most influential young leaders, among other recognitions.

Herman also served as an officer in the U.S. Air Force.

Maj. Gen. Roger Teague serves as director of space programs within the office of the U.S. Air Force assistant secretary for acquisition and holds responsibility over the military branch’s space-related technology development and procurement strategies.

Prior to his current role, Teague directed strategic plans, programs and analyses at the Air Force Space Command in Colorado and worked as vice commander at AFSPC’s Space and Missile Systems Center in California.

He also managed the launch, testing and operational deployment of three Milstar communication satellites during his tenure as 4th Space Operations Squadron commander.

Teague also led the Space-Based Infrared Systems Space Group and SBIRS Wing, where he oversaw the management of geosynchronous, two polar orbiting payloads and a defense support program satellite.

He was commissioned after he earned a bachelor’s degree from the Air Force Academy in 1986.

He also holds an MBA degree from the University of Central Oklahoma.

Susan Gordon serves as deputy director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and assists the agency director in the management of the National System of Geospatial Intelligence.

Prior to assuming her current role in January, Gordon was director of CIA‘s Information Operations Center and senior adviser to the CIA director on cyber matters.

She worked at CIA for nearly 30 years, starting as an analyst in the Directorate of Intelligence’s Office of Scientific and Weapons Research.

She also brings engineering development experience from her work at the agency’s Directorate of Science and Technology, where she has also served as director of special activities.

Gordon has also held the position of director at the Office of Advanced Analytic Tools and the CIA director’s special assistant responsible for designing the Intelligence Community’s nonprofit venture capital firm In-Q-Tel.

Mark Borkowski has served as the assistant commissioner and component acquisition executive of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection‘s Office of Technology Innovation and Acquisition since 2010.

He is responsible for the execution of technology efforts and the management of acquisition programs at CBP.

He previously held the position of executive director at the Secure Border Initiative’s program executive office, where he provided oversight for the initiative’s implementation across the Department of Homeland Security.

Borkowski was also executive director for mission support at the U.S. Border Patrol headquarters, director for asset management at CBP’s Office of Air and Marine and program executive for NASA‘s Robotic Lunar Exploration Program and Hubble Space Telescope Robotic Servicing and De-orbit Mission.

At NASA, he has also worked as assistant deputy associate administrator for development programs at the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate and ESMD coordinator for the NASA Exploration Transportation Strategic Roadmap.

He is a DHS Level III certified program and acquisition manager and a 23-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force, from which he retired in 2004 at the rank of colonel.

Marianne Bailey serves as principal director at the Defense Department‘s office of the deputy chief information officer for cybersecurity and is responsible for coordinating DoD’s cybersecurity standards, policies and guidelines with those of other U.S. government organizations, partner nations and companies.

Prior to this role, Bailey worked at the National Security Agency as assistant deputy director of trusted engineering solutions from 2013 to 2015 and as chief of NSA’s information assurance directorate for engineering from 2011 to 2013.

She directed the Unified Cross Domain Management Office between 2006 and 2011, became a defense intelligence senior executive service member in 2008 and served as a liaison to the Defense Information Systems Agency from 2003 to 2004.

She also led a team of NSA professionals who operationalized a coalition mission partner network and participated in DoD’s Afghanistan/Pakistan Information Sharing and Collaboration Task Force.

Bailey is a recipient of the National Intelligence Exceptional Achievement Medal and the Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Civilian Service.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Maryland and a master’s degree in national resource strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.

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.