The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is an American family of single-seat,single-engine,stealth multirole combat aircraft designed for air superiority and strike missions;it also has electronic warfare and intelligence,surveillance,and reconnaissance capabilities. Lockheed Martin is the prime F-35 contractor with principal partners Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems. The aircraft has three main variants:the conventional takeoff and landing (CTOL) F-35A,the short take-off and vertical-landing (STOVL) F-35B,and the carrier-based (CV/CATOBAR) F-35C.
Software Engineering Institute (SEI) is a federally funded research and development center in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania,United States. Founded in 1984,the institute is now sponsored by the United States Department of Defense and the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering,and administrated by Carnegie Mellon University. The activities of the institute cover cybersecurity,software assurance,software engineering and acquisition,and component capabilities critical to the United States Department of Defense.
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania. The institution was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools. In 1912,it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology and began granting four-year degrees. In 1967,it became Carnegie Mellon University through its merger with the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research,founded in 1913 by Andrew Mellon and Richard B. Mellon and formerly a part of the University of Pittsburgh.
The Mark 54 Lightweight Torpedo is a standard 12.75-inch (324 mm) anti-submarine warfare (ASW) torpedo used by the United States Navy.
Michael Walter Wynne is an American politician and business executive and was the 21st United States Secretary of the Air Force. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates asked for and received his resignation on June 5,2008,in the wake of the 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident and the mistaken shipment of Minuteman III parts to Taiwan in 2006,followed by an investigation by and a critical report from Admiral Kirkland H. Donald regarding the Minuteman incident.
The Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) is a type of electromagnetic catapult system developed by General Atomics for the United States Navy. The system launches carrier-based aircraft by means of a catapult employing a linear induction motor rather than the conventional steam piston. EMALS was first installed on the lead ship of the Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier,USS Gerald R. Ford.
Dr. Dale W. Meyerrose, Major General (Retired) was the first President-appointed,Senate-confirmed Associate Director of National Intelligence/Intelligence Community Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Information Sharing Executive for the Director of National Intelligence (DNI).
Located at Kirtland Air Force Base,New Mexico,the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center is a direct reporting unit of Headquarters,United States Air Force. It is the Air Force independent test agency responsible for testing,under operationally realistic conditions,new systems being developed for Air Force and multi-service use.
Richard Allan DeMillo is an American computer scientist,educator and executive. He is Professor and holds the Charlotte B. and Roger C. Warren Chair in Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Howard Anthony Schmidt was a partner with Tom Ridge in Ridge Schmidt Cyber LLC,a consultancy company in the field of cybersecurity. He was the Cyber-Security Coordinator of the Obama Administration,operating in the Executive Office of the President of the United States. He announced his retirement from that position on May 17,2012,effective at the end of the month.
The Operational Test and Evaluation Force (OPTEVFOR) is an independent and objective agency within the United States Navy for the operational testing and evaluation (OT&E) of naval aviation,surface warfare,submarine warfare,C4I,cryptologic,and space systems in support Navy and Department of Defense acquisition programs.
The Director,Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) is the principal staff assistant and adviser to the US Secretary of Defense on operational and live fire test and evaluation activities involving U.S. Department of Defense weapons systems.
United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) is one of the eleven unified combatant commands of the United States Department of Defense (DoD). It unifies the direction of cyberspace operations,strengthens DoD cyberspace capabilities,and integrates and bolsters DoD's cyber expertise which focus on securing cyberspace.
Stephen Edward Cross is the executive vice president for research (EVPR) at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech),a position to which he was appointed in 2010. As EVPR,Cross coordinates research efforts among Georgia Tech's colleges,research units and faculty;and provides central administration for all research,economic development and related support units at Georgia Tech. This includes direct oversight of Georgia Tech's interdisciplinary research institutes,the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI),the Enterprise Innovation Institute (EI2) and the Georgia Tech Research Corporation (GTRC).
James Michael Gilmore is a former Director of the Operational Test and Evaluation Directorate of the United States Department of Defense. Gilmore served as Assistant Director for National Security of the Congressional Budget Office and Deputy Director of General Purpose Programs in the Office of the Director,Program Analysis and Evaluation of the Department of Defense. He was served as the Director of the Operational Test and Evaluation Directorate from 2009 to 2017.
The Distributed Common Ground System(DCGS) is a system which produces military intelligence for multiple branches of the American military.
Larry E. Druffel is an American engineer,Director Emeritus and visiting scientist at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University. He has published over 40 professional papers/reports and authored a textbook. He is best known for leadership in:(1) bringing engineering discipline and supporting technology to software design and development,and (2) addressing network and software security risks.
Brigadier GeneralGregory (Greg) J. Touhill is Director of the world renowned Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute’s CERT Division. Previously,he was the president of AppGate Federal Group . He was previously appointed by President Barack Obama as the first Federal Chief Information Security Officer of the United States,stepping down in January,2017. He was previously the Deputy Assistant Secretary,Office of Cybersecurity and Communications,National Programs and Protection Directorate,Department of Homeland Security. While at DHS he concurrently served as Director of the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) during 2014–2015.
The chief of space operations (CSO) is the service chief of the United States Space Force. The CSO is the principal military adviser to the secretary of the Air Force for Space Force operations and,as a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,a military adviser to the National Security Council,the secretary of defense,and the president. The CSO is a statutory office held by a Space Force general,who is typically the highest-ranking officer on active duty in the Space Force.
