Information and Intelligence Sharing-"Progress & Best Practices"

Listen April 28th - 2pm

Program will discuss:

• Key Initiatives ongoing to improve Information & Intelligence Sharing
• Top Priorities for the upcoming year
• Barriers or Constraints to still overcome What Agencies have lead roles in Information & Intelligence Sharing
• A Future Vision for the next 5 to 10 years

Panelists:
Dr. Carter Morris-Ph. D. Chief of Staff, Intelligence & Analysis-Department of Homeland Security
C. Elaine Cummins-Ph.D.-Chief Information Sharing Officer, FBI
Daniel Risacher-Associate Director for Information Policy and Integration, Office of the Deputy CIO, DoD
Robert Riegle-Director of the State and Local Government Program Office within the Office of Intelligence & Analysis in The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, DHS
Srinivas Kosaraju-Federal Solutions Architect Director-IBM Software Group/Cognos
Christopher Parker- EDS, an HP Company

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Moderator: Jim Flyzik -Flyzik Group

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About the Panel

Jim Flyzik
President
The Flyzik Group

Jim Flyzik is the President of TheFlyzikGroup www.theflyzikgroup.com . The company specializes in Strategic Business Consulting, Performance Based Contracting Consulting and Training and Thought Leadership media events. The company assists small, medium and large companies in providing world-class government services. Jim also serves as the Chairman of the Information Technology Association of America Committee on Homeland Security. Jim also hosts the monthly radio program, The Federal Executive Forum on WFED 1500 AM and www.federalnewsradio.com .

Jim served over 27 years in the federal government. He served as Senior Advisor to Governor Ridge in the White House Office of Homeland Security (OHS). He provided advice to OHS on the National Strategy and Information Management in support of the OHS mission. From February 1998 until December 2002, Jim also served as the Vice Chair of the Federal Government CIO Council overseeing numerous government wide IT initiatives. He was also a member of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board.

Prior to this, from August 1997 until April 2002, Jim was the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Information Systems and Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Department of the Treasury. He provided oversight, strategic planning and management direction on over $3.0 billion in annual information technology and information infrastructure programs within Treasury and its fourteen Bureaus. Jim also served as the Acting Assistant Secretary for Management for the Treasury Department from January 20, 2001 until February 8, 2002. In that role he provided oversight of all Treasury bureaus and served as the principal policy advisor to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary on matters involving the internal management of the Department and its bureaus. Jim received the Secretary Certificate of Appreciation on February 12, 2002 for his efforts during this transition period.

Prior to his Treasury positions, Jim worked for 15 years at the U.S. Secret Service where he held key IT management positions, including the Chief of the Communications Division, providing world class telecommunications in support of Secret Service tactical and operational requirements.
Jim served as Team Leader on Vice President Gore's National Performance Review (NPR) Information Technology Team. Following this assignment, he was selected as Chairman of the Government Information Technology Services Working Group, to implement the NPR Information Technology recommendations and coordinate the government services portion of the National Information Infrastructure (NII). He was given the prestigious Eagle Award as the government information technology executive of the year in 1994, a Meritorious Presidential Rank Award in 1995, the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association Award for Excellence in Information Technology in 1996, the AFFIRM Award for Outstanding Service to the Citizens in 1997, the Industry Advisory Council Award for Special Achievements and Leadership in 1997, the AFFIRM IRM Executive of the Year Award in 1998, and the Distinguished Rank Executive Award from President Clinton in 1999. In 2001 the Federation of Government Information Processing Councils presented him the John J. Franke award for outstanding government service. In March 2002, Jim was selected by the Federal CIO Council to receive the Azimuth Award as the Government Executive of the Year.

Jim has extensive public speaking experience and frequently serves as a featured speaker at industry events. He has developed, and currently teaches part-time, a graduate level course on Information Systems Security and Risk Assessment at the University of Maryland. Jim was given the Stanley J. Drazek Excellence in Teaching Award in 1998 by the University of Maryland.

Jim has an undergraduate degree in Business Administration and Computer Science and a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Maryland with an area of concentration in Information Systems Management.

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DR. Carter Morris, Ph.D.
Chief of Staff
Office of Intelligence and Analysis at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

Dr. Morris recently became the Chief of Staff for the Office of Intelligence and Analysis at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and previously served for three years as the Director for Information and Knowledge Management in the same office. He is a CIA careerist detailed to DHS from the Directorate of Science and Technology at CIA.

Previously, Dr. Morris served as the Deputy Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Collection where he helped coordinate all Intelligence Community collection activities.

Dr. Morris received a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Hampden-Sydney College in 1966 and a Doctorate in Physics from the University of Virginia in 1970 in the area of experimental solid-state physics.

After receiving his Ph.D., Dr. Morris spent two years at the University of Virginia as an Assistant Professor of Physics before moving to the faculty of the Physics Department at Florida State University. Dr. Morris spent 11 years as a professor at Florida State teaching and conducting a research program concentrating on exploring the electrical and magnetic properties of materials at low temperatures.

In 1984, Dr. Morris took a leave of absence from the university to work with the Office of Research and Development (ORD) at the CIA and a year later officially joined the Agency. In ORD he held both senior scientist and management positions concentrating on the development of technology to support human and signals intelligence operations. When he left ORD he was chief of the Signals Exploitation Division.

From 1993 to 1995, Dr. Morris served in the DCI's Nonproliferation Center (NPC) as Special Assistant for R&D to the Director of NPC where he headed a group whose responsibility was to coordinate government-wide R&D to support the needs of the nonproliferation program.

In 1995, Dr. Morris joined what became the Clandestine MASINT Operations Center (CMOC) in the Office of Technical Collection as Chief of the Systems Analysis Staff. In 1998, he became Deputy Director of CMOC.

In 2000, Dr. Morris became Deputy Director of the Central MASINT Organization in the Defense Intelligence Agency—where he served until he became the Deputy Assistant DCI for Collection in late 2001.

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C. Elaine Cummins -Ph.D.
Chief Information Sharing Officer, FBI

C. Elaine Cummins has served as Policy Officer with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Security Branch Executive Staff since early 2005, concentrating on information sharing policy. In her position as Chief Information Sharing Officer (CISO) / Senior Intelligence Officer for Information Sharing, she will lead the planning and coordination of all FBI information sharing activities under the auspices of the FBI Information Sharing Policy Board (ISPB). In addition to internal FBI intelligence and information sharing initiatives, she will coordinate and represent the FBI externally. External information sharing policy groups include DOJ LEISP Coordinating Council, the Global Justice Criminal Intelligence Coordinating Council (CICC), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence CIO Information Sharing Steering Committee (ISSC), and the PM-ISE Information Sharing Council (ISC).

Dr. Cummins served as co-chair of the Presidential Guideline 2 Implementation Team, tasked with establishing the Interagency Threat Assessment Coordinating Group (ITACG). The ITACG is designed to facilitate coordinated federal terrorism intelligence products for dissemination to state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies, as directed by the Guideline. Additional information sharing undertakings include planning, organizing, and coordinating the FBI preparation for implementing the Fusion Center Network, Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR), and other Guideline 2 initiatives.

She also led the Department of Justice Federal Crime Reporting Working Group, which coordinated several components' decisions regarding the sharing of their LEISP law enforcement information; coordination of the FBI response to the Global Justice Fusion Center Guidelines; development of the FBI Foreign Disclosure policy; as well as other various information sharing initiatives.

As an agent for change, Dr. Cummins has been a leader in focusing FBI efforts toward the mandated position of assuming a "responsibility to provide" law enforcement and intelligence information to any appropriate entity, including federal government agencies; state, local, tribal authorities; and the private sector. She has presented information sharing sessions to various audiences including the Counterterrorism Leadership Forum at the FBI National Academy and the FBI Domestic Security Alliance Council (DSAC); the National Defense University; and the National Defense Intelligence College.

Dr. Cummins received a Ph.D. in Public Administration from American University, Washington DC in 2000. Her dissertation, granted Distinction status by the University, dealt with the implementation of federal and state private prison policy in Texas. She is a member of Pi Alpha Alpha, the nationally recognized Public Administration graduate honor society. Currently she is completing a book, Private Prisons in Texas: Mixed Motives, Mixed Results.

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Daniel Risacher
Associate Director for Information Policy and Integration, Office of the Deputy CIO, DoD

Daniel Risacher is the associate director for Information Policy and Integration in the office of the Department of Defense CIO. Dan is a member of the DoD CIO's staff of "net-centric evangelists" advocating the net-centric transformation of the Defense Department for improved information sharing and collaboration. The staff of policy analysts promotes community implementation of the DoD's Net-Centric Data and Services Strategies to make information visible, accessible, and understandable, as well as promoting the use of service-oriented architectures across the DoD enterprise. Dan's particular focus has been on the issues relating to use open source software and cloud-computing technologies in the DoD.

Previously, Dan was an active-duty officer of the United States Air Force, and holds two degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in electrical engineering and computer science. He lives, works and sails in Arlington, Virginia with his wife and three children.

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Robert Riegle
Director of the State and Local Government Program Office Office of Intelligence & Analysis in The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, DHS

Robert Riegle presently serves as the Director of the State and Local Government Program Office within the Office of Intelligence & Analysis in The U.S. Department of Homeland Security. As a Senior Intelligence Officer in DHS Mr. Riegle spearheaded the development of relationships concerning many State and Local Government Fusion Centers and was a co-lead for the DHS-wide effort to formalize policy concerning Fusion Center Relationships.

Mr. Riegle is the DHS representative to the Department of Justice's Global Justice Initiative, the Co-chair of the National Fusion Center Coordination Group and an advisory member of the Criminal Intelligence Coordinating Council. Prior to working at DHS Mr. Riegle worked at Booz Allen Hamilton in the Strategic Communications Area; the Defense Intelligence Agency as a National Intelligence Support Team (NIST) Intelligence Specialist, serving in Operations Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom and Noble Eagle; Chevy Chase Bank as a Corporate Vice-President; and Indeck Power Overseas Ltd. as the Regional Manager - Pacific Rim. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Government from the University of Maryland and a Juris Doctor from The Catholic University of America - Columbus School of Law.

Mr. Riegle entered the Senior Executive Service in 2007 after nearly fifteen years of Government employment. Mr. Riegle has been married for eighteen years to the former Anna Rehmann and has a fifteen year old son. Mr. Riegle has numerous military awards and decorations including two Combat Action Ribbons, The Joint Unit Commendation Medal, The Joint Unit Achievement Medal, and four Navy Achievement Medals. He is a member of the Navy Special Warfare Association, the American Bar Association, and an avid skier and golfer.

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Chris Parker
EDS, an HP Company

Chris Parker is the EDS U.S. Public Sector's Client Industry Executive for the Intelligence and Homeland Security segments. He is responsible for developing and managing strategic relations within the Intelligence and Homeland Security Agencies, specifically focused on the top six in the IC , and the Department of Homeland Security along with the Intelligence elements in civilian agencies or uniformed services.

Prior to this role, Parker was an independent consultant providing subject matter expertise to Raytheon, Booz Allen Hamilton and the International Biometrics Group. Additionally, he spent a year as a new hire recruiter in support of the Intelligence community.

Before joining EDS, an HP company, Parker served as an executive-level manager in both the Operations and Science and Technology Directorates of the Central Intelligence Agency, completing 24 years of service. He served senior assignments at both the National Security Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency.

From 1975 to 1982, Parker served in the U.S. Army as an infantry officer, resigning as a Captain to pursue civilian opportunities. He was an infantry officer on jump status with the 101st Airborne Division and a helicopter pilot with the 82nd Airborne Division. He is a rated helicopter and airplane pilot and holds an FAA certification as an Airframe and Power plant mechanic. Parker currently serves as the president of the Technical Service Retiree Association.

He is the recipient of the CIA Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal, NSA Meritorious Civilian Service Award, DIA Defense Intelligence Director's Award and the U.S. Army Defense Meritorious Service Medal.

Parker received his bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from the University of Santa Clara, California. He is single and lives in the Washington, D.C., area.

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