Cyber threat strategy must begin with intelligence

“Pat” Flanders is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and a Deputy Assistant Director for the Defense Health Agency (DHA). Mr. Flanders provides leadership for the continued development of an affordable, innovative, robust, and secure health information technology environment in support of the Combatant Commands, service members, veterans, and their families.

Mr. Flanders is a computer scientist and Department of Defense (DoD) certified acquisition professional with nearly 29 years of system automation, personnel, finance, and logistics experience. Prior to joining the DHA, he served as the Deputy Program Executive Officer for Defense Healthcare Management Systems, the Senior Military Assistant to the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics; and the Deputy Director of Investment for the United States Army. Mr. Flanders has full lifecycle Project Management experience across a variety of DoD systems including two of the Army's major Enterprise Resource Planning initiatives: the Global Combat Support System Army (GCSS-Army) and the Logistics Modernization Program (LMP), as well as, the Defense Logistics Agency and the U.S. Transportation Command’s, Integrated Data Environment/ Global Transportation Network Convergence program.

Mr. Flanders holds Master of Science degrees in Computer Science from the Naval Postgraduate School and in National Resource Strategy from the National Defense University. He received his Master of Arts in Procurement and Acquisition Management from Webster University and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Clarkson University.

Mark Johnson serves as Deputy CIO, Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Privacy Officer at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). In this role, he leads the Agency’s cybersecurity and privacy programs, is responsible for FISMA compliance, and serves on the USAID Risk Management Council (RMC).

Before joining USAID, Mark served as Cybersecurity Compliance Officer for the Department of Commerce (DOC) and Deputy CIO for the Economic Development Administration (EDA), a DOC bureau.

Mr. Hubbard has spent 25 years providing cybersecurity consulting services to the Federal Government. He currently leads KPMG’s Federal Cybersecurity practice supporting the Defense & Intel communities as well as Federal Healthcare and Civilian agencies with a wide range of cybersecurity services, including identity access management support and cyber governance, among others. Mr. Hubbard has authored articles and spoken widely on Federal Government cyber challenges and opportunities. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Shepherd University, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).

Tom Temin has been the host of the Federal Drive since 2006. Tom has been reporting on and providing insight to technology markets for more than 30 years. Prior to joining Federal News Radio, Tom was a long-serving editor-in-chief of Government Computer News and Washington Technology magazines. Tom also contributes a regular column on government information technology.