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As CAASD's chief software architect, Kim Warren plays a lead role in evolving MITRE/CAASD's software processes and establishing strategic directions for our software assets. She is responsible for all software development processes (business case, requirements, design, development, test, and fielding) for MITRE/CAASD software deliverables and tools. She also focuses on software architecture and re-use across outcomes, outputs, and divisions. Prior to joining MITRE/CAASD, Ms. Warren worked for General Motors, where she was the director for global e-product development and supplier collaboration. Her responsibilities included defining and executing the strategy for global development and deployment of new applications for 30,000 design and engineering employees and 50,000 supplier users worldwide. A researcher and developer at heart, Ms. Warren started her career in the late 80s in the MITRE artificial intelligence center. She moved on to Concept Five to lead software product development in collaborative systems, enterprise application integration, and security products for Hitachi and Iona. She has a master's degree in artificial intelligence from Edinburgh University in Scotland and a bachelor's degree in computer science from Syracuse University in New York.

Name & Title: Gary A. Cluff is the Manager, Corporate Recruiting for the MITRE Corporation in McLean, VA. Brief Job Description: Prior to joining MITRE in 2001, Mr. Cluff served as a Special Assistant to the Director of the CIA where he introduced and implemented competitive recruitment strategies and more efficient recruitment practices. For more than 30 years, as a consultant and as an employee, he has shared his recruiting expertise with government agencies, public corporations, and non-profit organizations, as well as thousands of individuals who have attended his popular recruiting forums and interviewing skills workshops. Other Accomplishments/Memberships: Mr. Cluff is the founder and facilitator of Project SAVE, a networking group of recruiting professionals in the Washington, DC area.

Mr. Harris, PMP, was appointed to the Loudoun Water Board in 2008. He has an undergraduate degree in environmental studies from Baylor University, where part of the course work included waste treatment and drinking water topics. He has completed coursework in hazardous waste management and environmental compliance. Mr. Harris is a United States Army veteran and served two tours of duty in Vietnam, with more than 1,500 helicopter combat missions. He currently works for Mitre Corporation and participates in numerous civic organizations. Mr. Harris lives in Ashburn.

Mr. Harris, PMP, was appointed to the Loudoun Water Board in 2008. He has an undergraduate degree in environmental studies from Baylor University, where part of the course work included waste treatment and drinking water topics. He has completed coursework in hazardous waste management and environmental compliance. Mr. Harris is a United States Army veteran and served two tours of duty in Vietnam, with more than 1,500 helicopter combat missions. He currently works for Mitre Corporation and participates in numerous civic organizations. Mr. Harris lives in Ashburn.

Dale Willenborg was born in 1952 and grew up in Manning, Iowa. He graduated from Iowa State University in 1973 with a BS degree in Computer Science and Math and in 1976 with an MS in Computer Science. He also received a Master of Computer Systems Management degree from Creighton University in 1996. Dale married his wife Dianne in 1979 and they have three children and three grandchildren. Dale has worked for the MITRE Corporation, a federally funded research and development corporation, since 1983 and works at Offutt AFB, NE. He is vice-president of the Treynor Optimist Club, a volunteer at the Council Bluffs Family History library, and active in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He has been a Scoutmaster in the Boy Scouts and a Bishop in his church.

Deborah Brooks is a Principal Information Systems Engineer with the MITRE Corporation (www.mitre.org). She has 25 years of data architecture and data management experience in the private sector, both in the U.S. and abroad, as well as with the U.S. government. Ms. Brooks was an early implementer of centralized Enterprise Data Management and has authored chapters in Auerbach Publications' Handbook of Data Management and High-Performance Web Databases. She has also published several articles in data management periodicals and has been a repeat speaker at International DB2 User's Group (IDUG) conferences. As former CIO of a financial services company, Ms. Brooks is experienced in all aspects of IT management, from strategic to operational, and was responsible for the development and implementation of a 3 terabyte Enterprise Data Warehouse.

Fred L. Wefer was born in Gary, Indiana, U.S.A. on 03 October 1943. He was raised in southern Illinois, attended the University of Illinois, the University of Miami, Wesleyan University, and the Pennsylvania State University where he received a Ph.D. in Astronomy in 1973. He has lived and/or worked in Illinois, Florida, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, California, Massachusetts, Colorado, Maryland, and Virginia. He is currently employed as a Systems Engineer at MITRE Corporation in McLean, VA. Fred began caving in 1966 with the Nittany Grotto in central Pennsylvania, and has caved extensively in the U.S., Mexico, Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean. He was a member of the team that set the international cave depth record at 1330 meters in the Pierre St. Martin cave system in the French Pyrenees in 1975. He was a member of the team that surveyed the Abyss of Provatina, explored caves and pits on the Astraka Plateau, and opened up the Tymphe Range for detailed exploration, in Greece in 1977. He was a member of the 1986 Dominican Republic Speleological Expedition, and was the co-leader of four successive expeditions to that Caribbean island. He was a member of the Iceland 1993 Kalmanshellir Expedition which surveyed the longest lava tube on that Atlantic island. He was a member of the Barbados 1994 Harrison's Cave Expedition which performed scientific research in this Caribbean show cave. Fred has recently been selected to head the visualization team of the 1997 Wakulla Project, an expedition to a deep submerged cave system in northern Florida. Fred has been active for more than two decades in surveying the caves of Burnsville Cove, VA. He does research in cave meteorology, cave survey techniques, and the computerized display of three-dimensional cave maps. He is former chairman and Honorary Life Member of the Nittany Grotto, and is a Fellow, a Life Member, and currently the President of the National Speleological Society (NSS). He is a founding member and a life member of the Butler Cave Conservation Society (BCCS), Inc., the non-profit science, education, and conservation corporation that manages the largest and the deepest caves in the state of Virginia.

Gabriel Galvan is a principal in the Center for Enterprise Modernization (CEM) at MITRE Corporation, a not-for-profit entity of six thousand employees, which operates as a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC). In his role he engages with federal government agencies and leaders at all levels by advising and contributing to the support of activities and projects that furthers the public's interest, bringing twenty years of experience in information technology and management consulting. Prior to joining MITRE in 2007, Gabe has enjoyed a wide set of experiences in working to service both the public sector and private industry. His roles have encompassed both field and corporate functions in the United States and abroad, including work with IBM, BMC Software, HP and Fannie Mae in a variety of roles. Gabe earned his Bachelors of Science in Business Administration from George Mason University and has additional graduate studies in International Transactions from the George Mason School of Public Policy. A native of Washington, D.C., Gabe resides in Leesburg, Virginia with his wife, Kathy, and their three children. Through previous assignments he and his family have lived in Mexico City, Houston and Los Angeles. He enjoys volunteering his time to the Hispanic College Fund, Boy Scouts of America and various community organizations.

Dr. Ellenbogen is Senior Principal Scientist of the Nanosystems Group. He joined the MITRE Corporation in 1984 and founded its Nanosystems Group in 1992. Also, he collaborated with others within the corporation to establish MITRE's Student Program in 1989, for which he continues as coordinator and as a mentor to students in the program.

Jeff Poston has been a member of the IEEE since 1987 and was recently elevated to Senior member. He currently serves as Secretary of the Northern Virginia Section and has held officer positions in the Signal Processing Society (SPS) and the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS). His technical interests are interdisciplinary, as reflected in his techical society memberships in the Communication Society, the Computer Society, EMBS and SPS. He has an individual membership in the IEEE Standards Association, and he previously held voting positions in the IEEE 802.22 and 802.16 standards committees. Jeff Poston currently works as an R&D Principal Investigator at MITRE where he has developed prototype cognitive radios for dynamic spectrum access and other applications. His professional experience supporting the telecommunications, defense and intelligence communities extends nearly two decades and spans analysis, design, prototyping and implementation.

Justin Sheehy is Basho's Chief Technology Officer. Justin came to Basho from the MITRE Corporation, where as a principal scientist he managed large research projects for the U.S. Intelligence Community including such efforts as high assurance platforms, automated defensive cyber response, and cryptographic protocol analysis. He was central to MITRE's development of research for mission assurance against sophisticated threats, the flagship program of which successfully proposed and created methods for building resilient networks of web services. Before working for MITRE, Justin worked at a series of technology companies including five years at Akamai Technologies, where he was a senior architect for systems infrastructure giving Justin a broad as well as deep background in distributed systems. Justin was a key contributor to the technology that enabled fast growth of Akamai's networks and services while allowing support costs to stay low. Justin performed both undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Computer Science at Northeastern University.

Kathy Wang broke into programming with BASIC on the Apple IIgs. She has a bachelor's and master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, where she specialized in VLSI chip design and semiconductor device physics and fabrication. She worked at Digital as part of the Next-Generation Alpha Chip Design Team, and got to spend an entire wonderful summer blowing up Alpha chips. She has published a paper on some of the work she did there at an IEEE conference. Kathy has instructed courses ranging from Semiconductor Device Physics to Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing. Since Digital got broken up by Compaq and Intel, Kathy has focused on the software side of things. She has worked at Counterpane Internet Security, and currently works as a Senior Infosec Engineer at The MITRE Corporation. Kathy is also a founder of Syn Ack Labs, a computer security research group focused on cryptography, steganography, and low-level packet hijinks.

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Marc has overall responsibility for the technical direction and development of Verid's service, and serves on the Company's Board of Directors. Marc has over 20 years of experience in software development and has published over forty papers ranging in topics from Autonomous Navigation to Reactive Control Systems. Prior to joining Verid, Marc was the CTO of Virtual Compliance and Edge Technologies, Inc. He was founder and CTO of Morph Technologies, which built and marketed an application platform for building interactive web sites. Marc was also lead scientist at the MITRE Corporation, and a robotic intelligence specialist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He holds a Doctorate in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, from Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Ralph R. Young is Director of Engineering Process Improvement in Defense Enterprise Solutions (DES) at Northrop Grumman Information Technology (IT), a leading provider of information technology and systems-based solutions. DES is a Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI) Level 5 organization. Dr. Young was a member of the CMMI Level 5 SCAMPI (Standard CMMI Appraisal Method for Process Improvement) Team, and is an avid reader of industry literature. He leads the DES Requirements Working Group of over 50 requirements engineers. He teaches the 10-hour "Requirements Course for Practitioners" and consults frequently about both requirements engineering and process improvement for DES' internal and external customers. Dr. Young offers a commercially-available "Effective Requirements Practices Workshop" to assist organizations and enable organizational improvement.

Blount is a member and a Past President of the Northside ISD school board in San Antonio, TX. He joined the TASB Board in September 2007 and has served on the Lone Star Investment Pool Board since April 2005. Blount earned his law degree from George Mason University. He also holds a Master's Degree in systems management from St. Mary's University and a Bachelor's Degree in engineering science from the United States Air Force Academy. He currently works as an engineer for The MITRE Corporation. He has served in a variety of capacities in furthering education opportunities for all students. He is the President of the Bexar County School Boards' Coalition. He is the founder and director of both the Texas Regional Science Bowl and the Texas Solar Race Car Event. Blount continues to serve the general San Antonio community as a member of the Texas Lyceum and the Youth Orchestra San Antonio (YOSA) and as a founder and director of The Dragons Soccer Club.

Stacy is focused on strengthening the organizational infrastructure of the IAI so it can support bold initiatives, like the development of Local Groups across the world. She is a co-founder of the DCIA local group in Washington, DC, edits the IA Column in the ASIS&T Bulletin, served as chair for the 2005 Information Architecture Summit, co-founded the Rosebud independent film and video festival, managed fundraising for the DC Arts Center, co-chaired the Foundation for Mid-East Communication, served as briefing leader for the Hunger Project, started a crimewatchers program in Haight-Asbury, and organized a neighborhood circus. She has made numerous public speaking, TV, and radio appearances on topics ranging from arts programming to Y2K readiness. Stacy is an Information Architect for the MITRE Corporation (www.mitre.org).

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Dr. Ashton B. Carter is Co-Director (with former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry) of the Preventive Defense Project, a research collaboration of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and Stanford University, and is the Ford Foundation Professor of Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School, where he teaches national security policy. Dr. Carter served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy during President William J. Clinton's first term. His Pentagon responsibilities encompassed: countering weapons of mass destruction worldwide, oversight of the U.S. nuclear arsenal and missile defense programs, arms control, controls of sensitive U.S. exports, policy regarding the collapse of the former Soviet Union (including its nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction), and chairmanship of NATO's High Level Group. He oversaw military planning during the 1994 crisis over North Korea's nuclear weapons program; was instrumental in removing all nuclear weapons from the territories of Ukraine, Kazakstan, and Belarus; directed the establishment of defense and intelligence relationships with the countries of the former Soviet Union when the Cold War ended; and participated in the negotiations that led to the deployment of Russian troops as part of the Bosnia Peace Plan Implementation Force. Dr. Carter oversaw the multi-billion dollar Cooperative Threat Reduction (Nunn-Lugar) program to support elimination of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons of the former Soviet Union, including the secret removal of 600 kilograms of highly enriched uranium from Kazakstan in the operation code-named Project Sapphire. Dr. Carter also directed the Nuclear Posture Review and oversaw the Department of Defense's (DoD's) Counterproliferation Initiative. He directed the reform of DoD's national security export controls. His arms control responsibilities included the agreement freezing North Korea's nuclear weapons program, the extension of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, the negotiation of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, and matters

Mr. Faga served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the MITRE Corporation, a not-for-profit systems engineering firm, from 2000 to 2006, and has been a member of the Board of Trustees of MITRE since 2000. Before joining MITRE in 1993, Mr. Faga served in the U.S. Department of Defense as Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Space and simultaneously as Director of the National Reconnaissance Office. He is also a director of Electronic Data Systems Corporation and GeoEye, Inc.

Ms. Selly currently serves as Expert Choice's Chief Financial Officer and as secretary and treasurer of the company's Board of Directors. Prior to her current role, Ms. Selly was the president of Decision Support Software, Incorporated, which merged with Expert Choice in 1990. Ms. Selly is also an experienced decision and resource allocation consultant and co-author of the book "Decision by Objectives", World Scientific Press, 2001. In this capacity she helps Expert Choice's clients with allocation of research and development funds, employee evaluation, proposal planning, policy decisions, group decision making, new product development, conflict resolution and strategic planning. She has consulted with a wide variety of organizations including the Federal Aviation Administration, the Veterans Administration, Progress Energy and Puget Sound Energy. Prior to joining Expert Choice, Ms. Selly was a member of the technical staff of the MITRE Corporation where she designed, developed, and supervised the implementation software that facilitated the tracking of in house publications. She evaluated graphics interfaces and developed user interfaces for the Strategic Environmental Assessment System. While contracted to the Compensation Office she designed and developed programs for employee evaluation. As a member of Mitre's C3 Division, she designed, developed and implemented a classified document tracking system. Ms. Selly also contributed to the design, development and demonstration of a Battlefield Display and Target Prioritization System. Ms. Selly also performed statistical analyses for a Warning Indications System and Sensor Effectiveness Models, and designed and developed a computer graphics for the Army Distribution System. Ms. Selly has a B.A., with a concentration in Business and Computer Science from American University, and an A.S. in data processing from Northern Virginia Community College. She also has a diploma from Manhattan Medical Technical School in Medical Technology and a degree from the University Of Buffalo School Of Nursing.