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DHS Plans to Improve CX Efforts With New Hiring Initiative; Alejandro Mayorkas Quoted
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DHS Plans to Improve CX Efforts With New Hiring Initiative; Alejandro Mayorkas Quoted

The Department of Homeland Security is launching a large-scale recruitment initiative aimed at hiring technologists with backgrounds in product management and customer experience to help transform and modernize service delivery across the department.

DHS said Thursday the selected applicants will assist DHS agencies and offices in efforts to digitize services and reduce administrative burdens to improve access to government services and benefits.

Through the initiative, DHS plans to advance a range of customer experience efforts, including the Transportation Security Agency’s Mobile Driver’s Licenses program and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ myUSCIS portal.

The hiring effort is in response to an executive order President Joe Biden signed in December 2021 to organize and improve the delivery of services across the federal government.

“Together, we can improve the customer experience for the millions of individuals with whom we interact every day, while advancing equity, protecting individuals’ rights and liberties, and increasing our openness, transparency, and accountability,” said Alejandro Mayorkas, secretary of DHS and a previous Wash100 Award winner. 

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Jen Easterly: CISA to Conduct ‘Consultative Process’ Toward Incident Reporting Policy Implementation
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Jen Easterly: CISA to Conduct ‘Consultative Process’ Toward Incident Reporting Policy Implementation

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will seek input from critical infrastructure owners and operators through 11 meetings as part of efforts to implement a new law mandating them to report breaches and ransomware payments to the federal government, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

Jen Easterly, director of CISA and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, said during a fireside chat session held Wednesday in Washington, D.C., that the agency will release details of listening forums it plans to conduct nationwide.

CISA must complete rulemaking procedures in order to impose requirements under the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act, which President Biden signed into law in March.

“What my goal is, as the director of the agency leading this process, is to ensure maximum transparency —to make sure it’s a consultative process and ensure harmonization,” Easterly said.

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Boeing Intelligence and Analytics Leadership and Executives Team
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Boeing Intelligence and Analytics (BI&A), a pioneering force in aerospace leadership and innovation, leverages a pool of exceptional talent and expertise. As they spearhead operations, BI&A remains at the forefront of cutting-edge advancements in the industry. Get acquainted with the distinguished members of Boeing intelligence and Analytics leadership and executives team whose brilliant minds drive the success of Boeing Intelligence and Analytics.

About Boeing

Boeing is an aerospace company that manufactures and services commercial airplanes, defense products, and space systems in over 150 countries. A leading provider in Aerospace, Boeing has expanded into three major business units, including Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Boeing Defense, Space & Security, and Boeing Global Services. It also expands into various functional organizations focusing on engineering and program management, technology and development execution, safety, finance, and many more. One of its subsidiaries is Boeing Intelligence & Analytics.

About Boeing Intelligence & Analytics

Boeing Intelligence & Analytics is one of the many subsidiaries of Boeing. BIA, as the company is more commonly known, is a Boeing Defense & Space company specializing in system integration and testing services. The headquarters of Boeing Intelligence and Analytics is in Annapolis Junction, Maryland, where executives and key employees are based. Meet the executives of the Boeing Intelligence and Analytics leadership and executives and their key responsibilities here.

Roxanne Wood, Chief Executive Officer & President

Roxanne Wood, Boeing Intelligence Analytics Chief Executive Officer & President; Boeing intelligence and analytics leadership and executives

As Boeing Intelligence and Analytics CEO and President, Roxanne Wood is in charge of the day-to-day operations including government relationships, leadership, engineering, and business growth, with a focus on cyber security. She previously worked as Chief Operating Officer, before getting promoted to CEO and President in August 2020, overseeing and implementing business operations, strategies and policies.

Roxanne Wood joined Boeing Intelligence and Analytics in 2019 as Director of Strategic Capture where she spearheaded strategies for growth within the MPO market segment, adjacencies such as USCYBERCOM, DIA, and other intelligence agencies.

Steven Cogdell, Chief Operating Officer

Steven Cogdell, Boeing Intelligence Analytics COO; boeing intelligence and analytics leadership and executives

Steven Cogdell joined Boeing Intelligence and Analytics back in February 2020 as a Business Development/Capture Manager where he helped build a strong foundation for the company’s long-term financial success. Cogdell focused on building a strong team of varied experiences across the NSA community to participate in the NSA Mission Focused Team program, which is said to generate over $400M in contract value. As Program Manager, he was also in charge of the execution of a USCYBERCOM program with an $82M+ valuation.

As the Chief Operating Officer, Cogdell reports directly to the CEO and oversees over 375 Boeing employees assigned in many BI&A programs. Cogdell leads all staffing efforts and challenges within the NSA community.  Cogdell takes overall responsibility for assisting the CEO in developing strategies and execution plans for the successful performance of the company’s programs and business objectives.

Patrick Shafer, Chief Financial Officer

Patrick Shafer, Boeing Intelligence Analytics Chief Financial Officer

Patrick Shafer is the Chief Financial Officer responsible for the daily financial transactions, contracts and risk mitigation, supplier management, financial reporting, proposal pricing, and coordination.

Shafer joins BI&A with more than 20 years of experience in business operations and federal contracting, and program finance. Throughout his career, Shafer has served in multiple roles overseeing reporting financial strategy and pricing. He worked as a Director of Financial Operations and Business Performance for five years since October 2016 before becoming Chief Financial Officer in March 2021.

Garrett Earle, Chief Information Officer

Garrett Earle, Boeing Intelligence Analytics Chief Information Officer

Garrett Earle has 20 years of IT experience in Commercial and Intelligence Communities. As Boeing Intelligence & Analytics’ Chief Information Officer, he runs the day-to-day IT operations, leading teams that protect the data and infrastructure, evaluating and implementing current industry trends, and bridging the gap between technical and non-technical.

Chad Scott, Director of Strategy & Business Development

Chad Scott, Boeing Intelligence Analytics Director of Strategy & Business Development

Chad Scott acts as the Director of Strategy and Business Development. He joined Boeing through the company’s acquisition of Kestrel Enterprise Inc in 2012 and has since then been responsible for developing, communicating, and executing a business strategy for BI&A.

Scott has over 30 years of experience in the intelligence community. He has served as a Counterintelligence Agent of the United States Army, supporting national-level espionage investigations.

Curtis Thomas, Technical Director

Curtis Thomas, Boeing Intelligence Analytics Technical Director

As Boeing Intelligence and Analytics’ Technical Director, Curtis Thomas reports directly to the CEO as he takes charge of setting the company’s technology vision, business development, and corporate strategy. He works closely with the Engineering Manager in making sure that the programs are realistically aligned with the technical resources.

Thomas joined BI&A in 2020. Having worked with SIGINT and Cyber Community as a Technology Strategist and Vice President of Engineering, Thomas quickly transitioned from a Cyber Architect to a Technology Strategist and later a Technical Director.

Lucia Rogers, Engineering Manager

Lucia Rogers, Boeing Intelligence Analytics Engineering Manager

Lucia Rogers oversees the team of engineers and analysts. She works directly with the Technical Director and Chief Operating Officer making sure that planned programs align with the available technical resources and that training and strategy roadmaps are tailored to the needs of Boeing employees. In fulfilling her role, Rogers brings with her leadership and geospatial experience. She also has technical aviation navigation experience, working with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

Before joining BI&A, Rogers served in multiple leadership roles, starting as a Geospatial Division Manager, Chief of Staff, and Branch Manager at Boeing. She also served as a Commission Military Police Officer in the United States Army.

Cynthia Stacey, Human Resources Lead

Cynthia Stacey, Boeing Intelligence Analytics Human Resources Lead

As the head of the Human Resources department, Cynthia Stacey plays an important role in all aspects of HR management and operations from recruitment and total rewards to employee relations. Stacey has over 15 years of HR experience, most with Boeing as a Staff Analyst and HR Generalist before her role at Boeing Intelligence & Analytics.

Seamless Analytics and Intelligence Solutions

Executives and leadership members who make up the Intelligence Community propel BI&A through vibrant partnerships and innovative approaches in order to deliver integrated analytics and intelligence solutions through Boeing government contracts addressing tomorrow’s challenges.

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GAO: Pentagon, ODNI Need to Clarify Roles, Responsibilities for Commercial Satellite Imagery Acquisition
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GAO: Pentagon, ODNI Need to Clarify Roles, Responsibilities for Commercial Satellite Imagery Acquisition

The Government Accountability Office has recommended that the Department of Defense and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence establish clear roles and responsibilities for the acquisition of commercial satellite imagery and evaluate various approaches to emerging commercial satellite capabilities.

GAO made the recommendation after it found that there is no guidance outlining organizational responsibilities and roles across DOD and the Intelligence Community for procuring commercial satellite imagery, according to a report published Wednesday.

The congressional watchdog also found that the Pentagon and IC have not come up with an approach to integrate emerging commercial satellite imagery capabilities into geospatial-intelligence operations.

“Without doing so, the U.S. may lose ground in space to competitors such as China, and the U.S. commercial industry may be limited in their ability to compete with foreign competitors,” the GAO report reads.

According to the report, DOD and ODNI should ensure that the National Reconnaissance Office and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency develop performance goals and measures that help support efforts to maximize the use of commercial satellite imagery.

GAO also called on ODNI to create guidance outlining specific responsibilities and roles for analytics services that use remote sensing data.

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Commerce Department’s Rule Seeks to Ensure US Companies’ Involvement in Standards Development Efforts
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Commerce Department’s Rule Seeks to Ensure US Companies’ Involvement in Standards Development Efforts

The Department of Commerce’s bureau of industry and security has introduced an interim final rule amending the Export Administration Regulations to permit the release of software and certain technologies in the context of standards-related activities.

“U.S. stakeholders need to be fully engaged in international standards organizations, particularly where the critical but sometimes invisible standards that they set have important national security as well as commercial implications,” Alan Estevez, undersecretary of Commerce for industry and security, said in a statement published Thursday.

“Today’s rule provides much needed clarification to U.S. industry and other organizations that will allow for continued U.S. leadership in these critical bodies,” added Estevez.

The rule seeks to address concerns of U.S. industry stakeholders about whether a BIS license is required to issue low-level tech platforms to parties on the Entity List for standards development initiatives.

The bureau is soliciting public comments on the rule and will accept feedback through Nov. 8.

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William Burns: Declassifying Intelligence Over Russia’s Actions in Ukraine ‘Effective’
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William Burns: Declassifying Intelligence Over Russia’s Actions in Ukraine ‘Effective’

CIA Director William Burns, a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, said the White House’s decision to declassify intelligence to counter Russia’s false narratives has played a key role in the war in Ukraine, Defense One reported Thursday.

“The decisions to declassify intelligence are always very complicated ones, but I think when President [Joe] Biden has decided very carefully and very selectively to make public some of our secrets, it’s played a very effective role over the course of the last six months, and I think it can continue to—again, if we make it the exception, not the rule,” Burns said Thursday during a cybersecurity summit.

He noted that declassification of intelligence has limits when it comes to cybersecurity threats and needs to be carried out “carefully.”

“I think we’re gonna have to be careful looking at other instances, whether it’s in terms of cyber threats or other kinds of challenges that the United States and our allies will face in the future,” Burns said.

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Shelley Sanders Tapped to Oversee Customer Relations as SVP at Intelligent Waves; CEO Tony Crescenzo Quoted
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Shelley Sanders Tapped to Oversee Customer Relations as SVP at Intelligent Waves; CEO Tony Crescenzo Quoted

Shelley Sanders, a former CACI executive, has been named senior vice president of client operations at the fast-growing government contracting firm Intelligent Waves.

In her new role, Sanders will be in charge of overseeing IW’s customer relations through the administration of proactive, outwardly-focused program and project management departments, the Reston, Virginia-headquartered company said Friday.

“We are thrilled to add Shelley Sanders, a high-caliber industry professional with a proven track record and profound understanding of IW’s growth objectives, to our executive management team,” commented Tony Crescenzo, CEO and president of IW.

The newly hired executive’s career began in the U.S. Army, serving in the Special Operations Command. Subsequently, she spent time at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, earning a Top Secret / SCI security clearance and accruing experience that would eventually inform her stint working closely with the U.S. Intelligence Community at CACI.

Sanders rose the ranks from program manager to vice president during her total of six years with CACI. She liaised with customers in the IC as well as the Department of Defense and other national government-level agencies, aiming to enable digital transformation for national security and government processes.

Sanders reportedly brings a deep knowledge of government and acquisition policies and procedures to IW, along with an expertise in program and portfolio management and execution; technology infrastructure management; and capture and business development.

Her cross-functional team partnerships have produced top and bottom line growth, which are slated to complement the growth IW has already seen during the last year. She is skilled in budget management and is known to handle contracts exceeding $100 million in value and direct several programs in a portfolio at once.

The appointment of Sanders follows a couple of key personnel changes within IW’s executive leadership team in 2022. In June, Amy Wood was promoted to chief financial officer and in January, Crescenzo rose to the CEO position in place of the company’s founder Jared Shepard (who is still its current board chair).

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Dynetics Successfully Launches Lonestar Satellite Payload for USASMDC; Group President Steve Cook Quoted
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Dynetics Successfully Launches Lonestar Satellite Payload for USASMDC; Group President Steve Cook Quoted

Dynetics announced on Thursday that the wholly-owned subsidiary of Leidos has successfully launched the Lonestar tactical space support vehicle from Mojave Air and Space Port, as a payload aboard Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne, for the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (USASMDC).

“The successful contact of our satellite in orbit is a substantial milestone for our team and the years of work supporting critical national security missions in space,” said Leidos Dynetics Group President Steve Cook.

Lonestar, a technology demonstrator designed to provide space-based situational awareness directly into the hands of the tactical warfighter, was developed, tested, integrated and delivered the tactical space support vehicle (TSSV) through the Design, Development, Demonstration and Integration (D3I), Domain 1 task order.

The Lonestar team verified the payload mission software through a series of tests that ensured functional operation of the payload flight hardware through Dynetic’s expertise in space systems and high-performance signal processing applications enabled rapid development. As well as its use of hardware-in-the-loop testing and simulation.

“This will enable further development for our growing satellite capabilities and accelerate our customer’s national security mission in space,” Cook added.

Dynetics completed the on-orbit satellite and payload checkouts with the USASMDC payload development laboratory on the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. The laboratory provides ground systems for command and telemetry to the satellite. The payload is operational and ready to support the situational awareness mission for the warfighter.

About Dynetics 

Dynetics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Leidos, provides responsive, cost-effective engineering, scientific, IT solutions to national security, cybersecurity, space and critical infrastructure sectors. Our portfolio features highly specialized technical services and a range of software and hardware products, including components, subsystems and complex end-to-end systems.

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GovCon Expert Chuck Brooks: Urgency of Cybersecurity for Threats to IoT Devices
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GovCon Expert Chuck Brooks: Urgency of Cybersecurity for Threats to IoT Devices

Chuck Brooks, a highly esteemed cybersecurity leader as well as an influential member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program, recently published a feature on Aug. 30th exploring how threat actors are exploiting vulnerabilities in machine learning and artificial intelligence tools as well as software and hardware gaps, especially in IoT devices. 

In his most recent feature article with Security Info Watch, GovCon Expert Chuck Brooks anticipates that more than 30 billion IoT connections will be in our hands by 2025, which includes trillions of sensors connecting and interacting on these devices.

“The growing reality is that hackers are seeking out unsecured ports and systems on companies and especially industrial systems connected to the Internet,” GovCon Expert Chuck Brooks explained. “But there are several immediate potential remedies to those threats.”

During the feature, Brooks provided his insights into the necessary work to protect hardware components of the network as well as separating signals that pose threats to devices, finding the hidden devices in the network, fortifying the platform with threat mitigation and more.

“In the scheme of cybersecurity things, it is all about fortifying vulnerabilities and closing gaps that criminal hackers might exploit,” Chuck Brooks added. 

“Hardware risks cannot afford to be neglected in today’s cyber-threat landscape. Companies need to secure both software and hardware that are the Ying Yang of Cybersecurity.”

About GovCon Expert Chuck Brooks

Chuck Brooks, president of Brooks Consulting International, is a globally recognized thought leader and subject matter expert in Cybersecurity and Emerging Technologies. 

Chuck is also Adjunct Faculty at Georgetown University’s Graduate Cybersecurity Risk Management Program where he teaches courses on risk management, homeland security technologies, and cybersecurity. 

He is also IEEE Cyber Security for Next Generation Connectivity Systems for Quantum IOT Vice-Chair and serves as the Quantum Security Alliance Chair for IoT. LinkedIn named Chuck one of “The Top 5 Tech People to Follow on LinkedIn.”

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CENTCOM Plans Development of New Military Testing Facility in Saudi Arabia
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CENTCOM Plans Development of New Military Testing Facility in Saudi Arabia

U.S. Central Command is planning to establish a new facility in Saudi Arabia that will test new military technologies designed to counter threats posed by unmanned aerial vehicles, NBC reported Wednesday.

The military testing facility, which is still in the early planning stage, will be called Red Sands Integrated Experimentation Center and is envisioned to support the development and testing of air and missile defense capabilities.

Defense officials familiar with the matter said the exact location of the facility has not been finalized but acknowledged that Saudi Arabia has the space needed to test signal-jamming, directed energy and other electronic warfare capabilities without interfering with the civilian population.

CENTCOM’s area of responsibility covers the Middle East and Iran, whose ballistic missile arsenal and drone fleet have grown in recent years.

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