The next event we will feature here on SIGNAL Scape will be TechNet Asia-Pacific, Nov. 3-6 at the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii. SIGNAL Editor-in-Chief Robert K. Ackerman will be sending us updates as things break from the conference.
Registration for the conference is still open. For more information, click here.
Tune in August 19-21 for coverage of LandWarNet from Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. from Robert K. Ackerman and Rita Boland of SIGNAL Magazine.
Use this link to go directly to the coverage.
Mr. Paul Cofoni, President and Chief Executive Officer, CACI International, Inc, and Ms. Natalie Givans, Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton, have been elected to lead AFCEA International. Mr. Cofoni will serve as Chairman of the Board and Ms. Givans will serve as the first Vice Chairman of the Board.
Mr. Cofoni has been a long time member of AFCEA and has served over five years on the Association’s Executive Committee and Board. He succeeds The Honorable Duane Andrews, Chief Executive Officer, QinetiQ North America, in this position. As Chairman of the AFCEA International Board of Directors, Mr. Cofoni will chair the Association’s Executive Committee and Compensation Committee and participate on the AFCEA Educational Foundation Board of Directors.
As President and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Cofoni’s responsibilities include executing CACI’s strategy to align its core competencies, innovative tools, and best-value solutions to help the U.S. government solve its most important problems in protecting our nation and winning the global war on terrorism. Mr. Cofoni has more than 30 years of senior-level executive experience in business development, M&A, strategic planning, and extensive federal market operations. His professional experience includes large-scale integrator contracts in the broad federal market sector; the defense, intelligence, and communications markets; and major commercial outsourcing and systems markets.
Ms. Natalie Givans is a life time member of AFCEA, joining in 1986. She has been active in the AFCEA NOVA chapter, serving on the Programs Committee and participating in the Young AFCEAN events as an invited speaker and mentor in recent years. She served on the Board of Directors for the AFCEA International Building Services Committee and on the Board of Directors for AFCEA International. In the past year, Ms. Givans served on the AFCEA Educational Foundation and has been active on the Diversity and Strategic Development Committees. She has been elected to serve as the first-ever Vice Chairman of AFCEA International, where she will report to the Chairman of the Board and will chair the Budget and Finance Committee.
Ms. Givans has more than 24 years of experience in system security engineering, information and mission assurance, and communications, information, and transmission security. She began her career at Booz Allen Hamilton providing engineering and analysis for the KG-84A Implementation program and developing signaling plans for the STU-III program. Today, she leads Booz Allen Hamilton’s Department of Defense information and system Assurance and Resilience (A&R) capability team, with over 750 subject matter experts nationwide, providing cyber defense and secure solutions to the Warfighter and the Federal Government. Her personal focus is on enterprise wide security architectures, solutions, and cyber defense. Ms. Givans was an active member of the System Security Engineering Capability Maturity Model (SSE-CMM) project, focused on ensuring that security is integrated into all acquisition and systems development lifecycles from their conception.
“AFCEA is honored to have Mr. Cofoni and Ms. Givans as its leaders,” says AFCEA International President and Chief Executive Officer Mr. Kent Schneider. “Their leadership and expertise in the C4I community is well-known, and their service to AFCEA is beyond measure. The Association’s future is bright with these individuals at the helm.”
For more information, including comments from and background on Mr. Cofoni and Ms. Givans, click here.
As promised, we have a new feature on SIGNAL Scape as of this month. Robert K. Ackerman, editor-in-chief of SIGNAL Magazine, describes the logic in moving the Business Bytes column to the web in the July issue’s “Behind the Lines”:
Compared to a monthly paper publication, the Web offers a huge advantage in timeliness. One of the first additions to the enhanced Web site’s news center comes directly from the magazine. Loyal SIGNAL readers who have perused the Business Byte column no longer can find it on paper—it has migrated to the Web site as Contract Awards under SIGNAL Scape. This change makes sense in terms of timeliness and relevance, because instead of learning about a contract two months after its award, readers now can see it on SIGNAL Online within days of its announcement. Web hot links connect readers with more information from the source of each contract announcement.
The Contract Awards section of SIGNAL Scape is edited by Katie Packard, SIGNAL Magazine’s Assistant Editor. You can access the Contract Awards section directly here, or subscribe to the section’s feed with this RSS link. Please note that the contract awards are not included in the regular SIGNAL Scape feed.
SIGNAL continues its webinar series on July 16, 2008, 12 noon ET, with Securing a Highly Available Infrastructure. The webinar will feature William F. Clark, VP, Technical Sales and Public Sector CTO, CA, Inc., discussing how you build and operate a secure, federated, authenticated, connected world and still have a life? DoD IT organizations face an increasingly complex set of challenges around information sharing, security, SLAs, industry standards and mandates.
This Webinar will address two important and intertwined concepts:
1. Enabling secure access to critical applications, information, and services across disparate enterprises.
2. Providing a solid foundation for reliable federation and information exchange.
You’ll hear about best practices and real-world examples from a federation expert and IT specialist who has 30 years of experience across multiple government and business sectors.
For more information and to register, click here.
Details have been announced for the next AFCEA Solutions Series webinar, which will be on May 21, 2008, 1-2 p.m. SIGNAL Editor-in-Chief Robert K. Ackerman will moderate the panel, which includes:
Robert Lentz, Director for Information Assurance, OASD NII
Mr. Lentz is the Director for Information Assurance (IA) in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Networks and Information Integration/Chief Information Officer. He is the Chief Information Assurance Officer (CIAO) for the Department of Defense (DoD) and oversees the Defense-wide IA Program, which plans, monitors, coordinates, and integrates IA activities across DoD. Mr. Lentz has over 26 years of experience with the National Security Agency (NSA) in the areas of financial management and technical program management.
Mary Dixon, Director, Defense Manpower Data Center, DoD
A charter member of the Senior Executive Service, Ms. Dixon (aka Snavely-Dixon) currently serves as the Director for the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC), a field activity reporting to the Office of the Secretary of Defense (Personnel and Readiness).
Morris Hymes, Jr., Director, Program Management Office, DoD PKI
Mr. Hymes has served as the Director Department of Defense (DoD) Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Program Management Office (PMO) since May 2006. Prior to his present assignment, Mr. Hymes served as the Office Chief responsible for formulating Information Assurance Policy at the National Security Agency (NSA).
For more information and to register, click here.
From the first AFCEA Solutions Series on Information Sharing:
