Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.

John R. Dowdle, MS, was born and raised in Deming, NM. He attended New Mexico Tech on a Regents Scholarship and graduated first in his class. After graduation he was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship in Computer-Oriented Mathematics at the University of North Carolina and an NDEA Fellowship in Economics at Carnegie-Mellon University, where he received an MS in Economics with distinction. He is a retired Senior Vice President of Booz-Allen-Hamilton, a global management and technology consulting firm, where he served on the Board of Directors for six years. He has also been a director of a regional bank, a home health-care provider John and an international trading company. Mr. Dowdle has been a faculty member at the University of North Carolina and the University of New Mexico. He currently teaches an MBA course at New Mexico Highlands University and is an active member of the civic community in Santa Fe.

Mr. McConnell is a Vice President and Director of Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.'s Infrastructure Assurance Center of Excellence where he has served since 1996. Prior to joining Booz Allen, Mr. McConnell served as Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) from 1992-1996.

Mr. Mayer, a Vice President at Booz Allen Hamilton, is responsible for initiatives in the area of organization transformation and change management in the public sector. He currently leads Booz Allena s business focused on the Department of Homeland Security. Other clients include the General Services Administration, where he helps them with the design and blueprinting of their new acquisition organization, and the United States Army, where he assists them in their transformation effort, primarily in the area of military personnel. Mr. Mayer also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Booz Allen Hamilton and as a member of the Personnel Committee of the Board. Prior to coming to Booza Allen, Mr. Mayer was the Director of Strategic Planning and Program Development at The CNA Corporation. He served on Capitol Hill, where he was a Deputy Assistant Director at the Congressional Budget Office. Mr. Mayer has been a consultant to the Electronic Industries Association for long-range planning and investment strategies and has lectured and authored articles on national budget priorities and the budget process. Mr. Mayer has graduate degrees in Statistics, Operations Research and Business from Stanford University and Long Island University and an undergraduate degree in Engineering from the U.S. Military Academy. He also is a graduate of the Senior Executive Program at The Kennedy School at Harvard University. He is married to the former Kathleen Laura Anderson of Oroville, Washington. They have three sons.

Sharon Bishop, senior vice president in ICF International's Caliber practice, has dedicated her career to applied social research, program evaluation and management studies of human service programs. Over the course of her 30 years as a management consultant, Sharon has been responsible for more than 150 studies for Federal, State and local government agencies, and nonprofit organizations. She has led efforts related to substance abuse treatment, child support enforcement, military family programs and youth job training, and she specializes in the management of large, complex projects. Prior executive leadership roles include vice president of Caliber Associates, Inc, principal with Booz Allen & Hamilton, Inc., and a research director at State and county social service agencies. She has a B.A. from St. John's College and an M.S.S. from Bryn Mawr College's Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research.

Christopher Anastasio, Senior Project Manager: As a Senior Project Manager, Mr. Anastasio is a Subject Matter Expert for biometric policy and legislation overseeing the development and promulgation of policies, memoranda of understanding and standard operating procedures throughout the DoD on behalf of the Biometrics Management Office (BMO). In this role he develops and contributes to briefings to senior Department officials including the Undersecretary of Defense (Policy), Vice Chairman of the Joint Staff, Secretary of the Army and the Vice Chief of Staff, Army. As an Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton, Mr. Anastasio spearheaded an enterprise solution for the use of biometric data in the Global War on Terrorism including the development of all related documents and briefings for presentation to the Office of the Secretary of Defense. In this role, he drafted biometrics policy for the Department of Defense and led biometrics installations at six Air Force sites in a two-month span thus significantly reducing security administration burden. Additionally, Mr. Anastasio acted as a Consultant to the Air Force's Combat Information Transport System (CITS), planning and executing policies ranging from network security to voice/video integration while providing assistance on base-level network security issues. Mr. Anastasio, a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, worked in a variety of IT support roles in the U.S. Air Force including Network Control Center Manager, Technical Support Center Manager and Help Desk Supervisor. In these positions, he was recognized for exceptional leadership and productivity, supervising large staffs and serving up to 10,000 users at 108 Air Force sites. Rick Nolte, Special Projects Manager: Mr. Nolte, Special Projects Manager, is responsible for new business development and small project management at Ideal Innovations. Prior to joining I3, Mr. Nolte was mobilized to the Pentagon as the Chief of the National Detainee Reporting Center (NDRC) with responsibility for accurate reporting of all persons detained by U.S. Forces in the Global War on Terrorism. He was a key member of the U.S. Army Tiger Team that developed new Detainee Operations practices and drafted the first Detainee Operations Policy for Combined Joint Task Force (CJTF) 7 in Iraq. Mr. Nolte began his military career in 1979 as a Quartermaster Officer in Germany where he held positions from Accountable Officer to Company Commander. In stateside assignments, he trained Reserve and National Guard soldiers and held positions in the Army Reserves including Battalion Executive Officer, Battalion Commander and Commander. Mr. Nolte holds a B.S. in Business Administration and is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the U.S. Army War College where he received an M.S. in Strategic Studies.