Mr. Kenneth W. Dam - (Co-Chair)
The University of Chicago
Kenneth Dam, co-chair, has devoted his career to public policy issues, both as a practitioner and as a professor. He served as deputy secretary (the second-ranking official) in the Department of Treasury (2001 - 2003) and in the Department of State (1982 - 1985). In 1973 he was executive director of the Council on Economic Policy, a White House office responsible for coordinating U.S. domestic and international economic policy. From 1971 to 1973 he served as assistant director for national security and international policy of the Office of Management and Budget. He began his Washington career as law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Charles E. Whittaker (1957 - 1958). Dam’s entire academic career has been devoted to the University of Chicago, beginning in 1960 and extending, with various leaves of absence, to the present. From 1980 to 1982 he served as provost of the University of Chicago. Most of his academic work has centered on law and economics, particularly with respect to international issues. His other activities include serving as IBM vice president for law and external relations from (1985 - 1992), and as president and chief executive officer of the United Way of America for a six-month period in 1992. He has extensive experience as an arbitrator. He is a member of the Board of the Brookings Institution and serves as a senior fellow of that organization. He is a member of the Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee and of the National Academies’ Science, Technology and Law Panel. He was chairman of the German-American Academic Council and a board member of a number of nonprofit institutions, including the Council on Foreign Relations (New York) and the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. He currently serves on the board of the Financial Services Volunteer Corps. He served for 13 years on the board of Alcoa. He received his B.S. in 1954 from the University of Kansas, his J.D. in 1957 from the University of Chicago, and his LL.D. (hon.) in 1983 from the New School for Social Research. He served as chair for the CSTB committee that produced the Cryptography’s Role in Securing the Information Society report, and he served on the CSTB committee that produced the Global Networks and Local Values: A Comparative Look at Germany and the United States report.
Adm. William Owens - (Co-Chair)
U.S. Department of the Navy [Retired]
William Owens, co-chair, retired as vice chairman and chief executive officer of Nortel on November 15, 2005. Prior to joining Nortel in 2004, Owens was chief executive officer and chairman of Teledesic LLC and president, chief operating officer and vice chairman of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). Prior to joining SAIC, Owens was vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the second-ranking military officer in the United States. He had responsibility for the reorganization and restructuring of the armed forces in the post-Cold War era. Widely recognized for bringing commercial high technology into the Department of Defense for military applications, Owens was the architect of the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA), an advanced systems technology approach to military operations that is the most significant change in the system of requirements, budgets and technology for the four armed forces since World War II. From 1991 to 1993, Owens was the deputy chief of Naval Operations for Resources, Warfare Requirements and Assessments. Owens served as commander of the U.S. Sixth Fleet in 1990 and 1991. Between 1988 and 1991, Owens served as senior military assistant to Secretaries of Defense Frank Carlucci and Dick Cheney, the senior military position in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. In 1988, Owens was the director of the Office of Program Appraisal for the Secretary of the Navy. In 1987, he served as commander of Submarine Group Six, the Navy's largest submarine group with 20 strategic ballistic missile submarines, 45 nuclear attack submarines, and more than 15,000 men and women. Earlier in his career, he commanded Submarine Squadron Four, the USS Sam Houston and the USS City of Corpus Christi. Owens has written more than 50 articles on national security and authored the book "High Seas." His latest book, "Lifting the Fog of War," was published in April 2000. He is a 1962 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in politics, philosophy and economics from Oxford University and a master's degree in management from George Washington University. He joined Teledesic in August 1998. Owens is the founder of Extend America, a five year state wireless telecommunications venture, and also sits on the public boards of Polycom, and Daimler Chrysler AG. Owens is a board member of AEA Investors LLC and is a member of several philanthropic boards including the Carnegie Foundation, Brookings Institution and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He is also a member of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and the Council on Foreign Affairs.
Dr. Thomas A. Berson
Anagram Laboratories
Tom Berson, President of Anagram Laboratories, has spent his career working both sides of the computer and communications security battle. He has been interested in technologies and ethics of security since 1957, and has been employed in the field since 1967. After working as a researcher, cold warrior, and Silicon Valley entrepreneur, he founded Anagram Laboratories, a thriving information security consultancy which is celebrating its 20th anniversary during 2006.
Dr. Berson is attracted most strongly to security issues raised at the disruptive edge of technology, business, and world events. His current client base includes Salesforce.com (disruptive at the center of the net) and Skype (disruptive at the edge). Dr. Berson is a student of Sun Tzu’s Art of War and its applicability to modern information conflict. He has lectured on this subject in venues from Washington to Beijing.
Dr. Berson was the first person to be named a Fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research. His citation reads, “For visionary and essential service and for numerous valuable contributions to the technical, social, and commercial development of cryptology and security.”
Dr. Berson was an editor of the Journal of Cryptology for fourteen years. He is a Past-Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Security and Privacy, and a Past-President and current Director of the International Association for Cryptologic Research.
Dr. Berson earned a B.S. in physics from the State University of New York in 1967 and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of London in 1977. He was a Principal Scientist at Xerox PARC, a Principal Engineer at Ford Aerospace and Communications Corporation, and a Research Staff Member at IBM. He is a member of the Stanford Cryptography Seminar. He was a Visiting Fellow in Mathematics in the University of Cambridge, and is a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge.
Dr. Berson has been a member of two previous National Research Council committees: the Committee on Computer Security in the Department of Energy, and the Committee to Review DoD C4I Plans and Programs.
Mr. Gerhard Casper
Stanford University
Gerhard Casper is President Emeritus of Stanford University and the Peter and Helen Bing Professor in Undergraduate Education at Stanford. He is also a professor of law, a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and a professor of political science (by courtesy). Mr. Casper studied law at the universities of Freiburg and Hamburg, where, in 1961, he earned his first law degree. He attended Yale Law School, obtaining his Master of Laws degree in 1962. He then returned to Freiburg, where he received his doctorate in 1964. He has been awarded honorary doctorates, most recently in law from Yale and in philosophy from Uppsala. In the fall of 1964, Mr. Casper emigrated to the United States, spending two years as assistant professor of political science at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1966, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School, and between 1979 and 1987 served as Dean of the Law School. In 1989, Mr. Casper was appointed Provost of the University of Chicago. He served as President of Stanford University from 1992-2000. Mr. Casper has written and taught primarily in the fields of constitutional law, constitutional history, comparative law, and jurisprudence. From 1977 to 1991, he was an editor of The Supreme Court Review. His books include a monograph on legal realism (Berlin, 1967), an empirical study of the Supreme Court’s workload (Chicago, 1976, with Richard A. Posner), as well as Separating Power (Cambridge, MA, 1997) concerning the separation of powers practices at the end of the 18th century in the United States. About the Stanford presidency, he wrote Cares of the University (Stanford, CA, 1997). He is also the author of numerous scholarly articles and occasional pieces. He has been elected to membership in the American Law Institute (1977), the International Academy of Comparative Law, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1980), the Order pour le mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste (Order pour le mérite for the Sciences and Arts) (1993), and the American Philosophical Society (1996). At present, Mr. Casper serves as a successor trustee of Yale University, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Central European University in Budapest, and a member of the Trilateral Commission. He is also a member of various additional boards, including the Council of the American Law Institute and the Board of the American Academy in Berlin.
Dr. David D. Clark
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David D. Clark, NAE, has worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Laboratory for Computer Science, where he is currently a senior research scientist in charge of the Advanced Network Architecture Group, since receiving his Ph.D. from MIT in 1973. Dr. Clark's research interests include networks, network protocols, operating systems, distributed systems, and computer and communications security. After receiving his Ph.D., he worked on the early stages of the ARPANET and on the development of token ring local area network technology. Since the mid-1970s, Dr. Clark has been involved in the development of the Internet. From 1981 to 1989, he acted as chief protocol architect in this development and chaired the Internet Activities Board. His current research area is protocols and architectures for very large and very high-speed networks. Specific activities include extensions to the Internet to support real-time traffic, explicit allocation of service, pricing, and new network technologies. In the security area, Dr. Clark participated in the early development of the multi-level secure Multics operating system. He developed an information security model that stresses integrity of data rather than disclosure control. Dr. Clark is a fellow of the ACM and the IEEE and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He received the ACM SIGCOMM award and the IEEE award in International Communications, as well as the IEEE Hamming Award for his work on the Internet. He is a consultant to a number of companies and serves on a number of technical advisory boards. Dr. Clark was the past chair of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board at the National Research Council. He chaired the committee that produced the CSTB report Computers at Risk: Safe Computing in the Information Age. Dr. Clark also served on the committees that produced the CSTB reports Toward a National Research Network, Realizing the Information Future: The Internet and Beyond, and The Unpredictable Certainty: Information Infrastructure through 2000. He is currently serving on CSTB’s committee to study Wireless Technology Prospects and Policy. Dr. Clark graduated from Swarthmore College in 1966 and received his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1973.
Dr. Richard L. Garwin
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Richard L. Garwin, NAS/NAE/IOM, is an IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J.
Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, and an adjunct professor of physics at Columbia University. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Garwin is an internationally renowned physicist with expertise in intelligence and on nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and defenses. From 1994 to 2001 he was also chair of the Arms Control and Nonproliferation Advisory Board at the Department of State. Dr. Garwin received the Enrico Fermi Award of the President and the Department of Energy (1996) and the R.V. Jones Intelligence Award of the U.S. Government Foreign Intelligence Community (1996). In 2003 he received the National Medal of Science and in 2000 was named by the NRO one of the ten Founders of National Reconnaissance. Dr. Garwin’s publications include Megawatts and
Megatons: The Future of Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weapons, (2003); Megawatts and Megatons: A Turning Point for the Nuclear Age? (2001); Control of Nuclear Arms at Crossroads (2000); A Defense That Will Not Defend (2000); Boost-Phase Intercept: A Better Alternative (2000); The Future of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy (1997); Feux Follets et Champignons Nucléaires (1997); Management and Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium (1994); The Future of the U.S.Soviet Nuclear Relationship (1991). Dr.
Garwin has a Ph.D. and M.S. in physics, The University of Chicago (1949,
1948) and a B.S. in physics, Case Western Reserve University (1947).
Mr. Jack L. Goldsmith III
Harvard Law School
Jack L. Goldsmith III has been a professor of law at Harvard Law School since 2004. From 2003 - 2004 he was the assistant attorney general of the in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel. He was a professor of law the University of Virginia Law School from 2003 - 2004. He previously served on the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School and as special counsel to the General Counsel in the Department of Defense. He previously was an associate professor at the Law School from 1994 to 1997. Mr. Goldsmith received his B.A. in philosophy summa cum laude from Washington and Lee University in 1984, a B.A. in philosophy, politics and economics with first class honors from Oxford University in 1986, a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1989, and a diploma in private international law from The Hague Academy of International Law in 1992. After law school he clerked for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the Supreme Court of the United States, and Judge George A. Aldrich of the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal. He also previously has served as an Associate at Covington & Burling. Goldsmith's scholarly interests include international law, foreign relations law, national security law, conflict of laws, and civil procedure.
Mr. Carl G. O'Berry
The Boeing Company
Carl G. O’Berry is with the Boeing Company, where he is vice president of Network Centric Architectures. He retired from the U.S. Air Force as a Lieutenant General in August 1995. Until December 1998 he was vice president and director of planning and information technology for the Space and Systems Technology Group at Motorola, where he was responsible for Group-wide strategic and long-range planning and executive management of group information technology solutions and services. In addition, he was responsible for information technology architectures and roadmaps, new information technology business development, and leadership of information technology innovation and process reengineering. He was previously deputy chief of staff for Command, Control, Communications & Computers, Headquarters, U.S. Air Force, a position from which he directed Air Force-wide information systems planning and policy development. Earlier in his Air Force career, he served as commander of the Air Force Rome Air Development Center and as joint program manager, World-Wide Military Command and Control System Information System. He also led the development and field testing of an airborne radar sensing/tracking system that was the forerunner of the Joint Surveillance and Target Attack Radar System. He has a master’s degree in systems management from the Air Force Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from New Mexico State University. He served on the CSTB committee that produced Realizing the Potential of C4I: Fundamental Challenges.
Dr. Jerome H. Saltzer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jerome H. Saltzer, NAE,. he has been a faculty member of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, since 1966, where he helped formulate the undergraduate curriculum in computer science, and developed the core subject on the engineering of computer systems. At MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (formerly the Laboratory for Computer Science and previously known as Project MAC) he developed RUNOFF, the ancestor of most type-setting formatters and TYPSET, an early context editor; together these two programs constituted one of the first widely-used word-processing systems. Dr. Saltzer participated in the refinement of the Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS) and was involved in all aspects of the design and implementation of the Multiplexed Information and Computing Service (Multics), including the design of the first kernel thread package, the first time-of-century clock and, in the early 1970's, a project to develop what would today be known as a micro-kernel. Together with David Clark and David Reed, Dr. Saltzer articulated the end-to-end argument, a key organizing principle of the Internet. More recently, his research activities have involved the design of a token-passing ring local area network, networking of personal computers, and designing the electronic library of the future. From 1984 - 1988 he was technical director of MIT’s Project Athena, a system for undergraduate education comprising networked engineering workstations, and probably the first successful implementation of the network computer. Throughout this work, he has had a particular interest in the impact of computer systems on society, especially on privacy and the risks of depending on fragile technology. In September, 1995, Dr. Saltzer retired from the full-time faculty. He continues to write and teach about computer systems part-time from his MIT office. Dr. Saltzer is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the IEEE and the AAAS, a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, Sigma Xi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Tau Beta Pi, a former member of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council, and a member of the Mayor's Telecommunications Advisory Board for the City of Newton, Massachusetts. Dr. Slaltzer received the degrees of S.B. (1961), S.M. (1963), and Sc.D. (1966), from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all in electrical engineering.
Mr. Mark Seiden
MSB Associates
Mark Seiden is a presently a consultant with MSB Associates. Previously he was a senior consultant with Cutter's Business-IT Strategies Practice and a member of the Leadership Group of Cutter Consortium's Risk Management Intelligence Network. He has consulted since 1983 in the areas of security, network, and software engineering to companies worldwide, with clients including startups, major computer and communication companies, financial institutions, law firms, UN agencies, online content providers, ISPs, research organizations, and nonprofits. As an independent consultant, and in varying roles at Securify (also known as Kroll O'Gara Information Security Group), his most recent projects have included design, architecture, and implementation for e-business systems; security for online financial transaction processing and distributed document processing systems; custom firewalls based on open-source components; finding computer criminals; and penetration testing the network and physical security of deployed systems, enterprises, and colocation facilities. Mr. Seiden has 35 years' programming experience. He has been a Unix and mainframe system programmer; written Macintosh applications; spent time at IBM Research, Xerox Parc, Bell Labs, and Bellcore; and has taught at the university level. Mr. Seiden has been on the board of directors of two user groups and is on the Technical Advisory Board of Counterpane Security Systems. Mr. Seiden has a M.S. in computer science/electrical engineering from Columbia University and as an undergraduate at Columbia studied math, music, and linguistics.
Ms. Sarah Sewall
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Sarah Sewall is the director of the Carr Center and Lecturer in Public Policy, she also directs the Carr Center's Program on National Security and Human Rights. During the Clinton Administration, Ms. Sewall served in the Department of Defense as the first Deputy Assistant Secretary for Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Assistance. From 1987-1993, she served as senior foreign policy advisor to Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell, delegate to the Senate Arms Control Observer Group, and on the Senate Democratic Policy Committee. Ms. Sewall has also worked at a variety of defense research organizations and as associate director of the Committee on International Security Studies at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was lead editor of The United States and the International Criminal Court: National Security and International Law (2000) and has written widely on U.S. foreign policy, multilateralism, peace operations, and military intervention. Her current research focuses on the civilian in war and includes facilitating a dialogue between the military and human rights communities on the use of force.
Mr. Walter B. Slocombe
Caplin & Drysdale
Walter B. Slocombe is a member in Caplin & Drysdale’s Washington, D.C. office. He focuses his practice primarily on civil litigation, defense trade, and exempt organizations. Mr. Slocombe first joined the firm as an associate in 1971 and became a member in 1974. His time at the firm has been interrupted by periods of service in the United States Department of Defense, most recently as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from 1994 to 2001 and in 2003, as senior advisor for National Defense in the Coalition Provisional Authority for Iraq. In 2004, President Bush appointed him to the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. In his litigation practice, Mr. Slocombe has handled a variety of cases at both the trial and appellate levels. The cases have involved both tax and general law issues, including successfully arguing in the U.S. Supreme Court a case in which he had participated in all prior stages, including IRS appeal, Tax Court trial, and Fourth Circuit review. Mr. Slocombe was chairman of the subcommittees of the ABA Tax Section’s Exempt Organization Committee that dealt with private foundations and the unrelated business income tax. He served as the committee’s representative to the Section’s task force on integration of the corporate and individual income taxes. He has also been a member of various advisory or governing boards of several academic and defense analysis institutions. Mr. Slocombe was awarded the Department of Defense’s Distinguished Public Service Medal (1981, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2004) and it’s Joseph Kruzel Award for Distinguished Service in the Pursuit of Peace (2000), and has been named an Honorary Submariner by the Fleet Submarine Force. His international service has been recognized by awards from the Polish, German, and Korean governments. Mr. Slocombe has published numerous articles and monographs on tax law issues and on defense policy and organization.
Mr. William O. Studeman
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems
William O. Studeman is sector vice president and deputy general manager for intelligence and information superiority, of Northrop Grumman Mission Systems. Mission Systems, based in Reston, Va., is a $4.5 billion global integrator of complex, mission-enabling systems and services for defense, intelligence and civil government markets. Mr. Studeman is responsible for strategic planning, business development and implementation; executive-level program direction; and overall line-of-business coordination, which includes division-level activities, as well as client management. He also coordinates the sector's homeland security activities and technology partnerships. Before joining TRW (which was acquired by Northrop Grumman in December 2002) in September 1996, Mr. Studeman worked for a year consulting on defense, intelligence, information infrastructure, security and management issues, following 34 years of career military service. Mr. Studeman retired from the U.S. Navy in 1995, where he reached a senior executive position (Admiral) as a top-level military manager and government leader. His flag positions included director of the Navy Long-Range Planning Group and executive secretary of the Advanced Technology Panel of the CNO Executive Board, director of naval intelligence and director of the National Security Agency. In 1992, President Bush nominated him to the political position of deputy director of central intelligence. Between 1992 and 1995, Mr. Studeman served as deputy to Bob Gates, Jim Woolsey, and John Deutch and served twice for extended periods as the acting director of central intelligence. In this capacity, he was the intelligence community representative to the President's Management Council and responsible for implementing the National Performance Review for downsizing, streamlining and reengineering the federal government. He has extensive operational intelligence tours overseas. Some of his key tours included duty as executive assistant to both the director of naval intelligence and the vice chief of naval operations, officer in charge of the Atlantic Fleet Ocean Surveillance Information Center, commanding officer of the Navy Operational Intelligence Center, and assistant chief of staff for intelligence, U.S. Sixth Fleet staff at Gaeta, Italy. In addition to his management and ISR experience, he has extensive background in antisubmarine warfare, C4ISR, information warfare and homeland security. He is a distinguished graduate of the Defense Intelligence School, the Naval War College and the National War College. He received a bachelor's degree in history from the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., a master's degree in public and international affairs from George Washington University, and numerous honorary degrees. Mr. Studeman also serves on numerous government boards, including the Defense Science Board, and the Presidential Commission on WMD.
Mr. Michael A. Vatis
Steptoe & Johnson LLP
Michael A. Vatis is a partner in the New York office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP. His practice focuses on Internet, e-commerce, and technology matters, with special emphasis on issues involving security, intelligence, and law enforcement. He also is an experienced appellate litigator. Mr. Vatis has spent most of his career addressing cutting edge issues at the intersection of law, policy, and technology. He was the founding director of the National Infrastructure Protection Center at the FBI, the first government organization responsible for detecting, warning of, and responding to cyber attacks, including computer crimes, cyber terrorism, cyber espionage, and information warfare. Before that, Mr. Vatis served as associate deputy attorney general and deputy director of the Executive Office for National Security in the Department of Justice, where he advised the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General and coordinated the Department’s activities involving counterterrorism, intelligence, and cyber crime. In that capacity, he also helped lead the development of the nation’s first policies regarding critical infrastructure protection. Mr. Vatis served as special counsel at the Department of Defense, where he handled sensitive legal and policy issues for the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense and the General Counsel, receiving the Secretary of Defense Award for Excellence. After leaving the government in 2001, Mr. Vatis served as the first director of the Institute for Security Technology Studies at Dartmouth, a federally funded counterterrorism and cyber security research institute. He was simultaneously the founding chairman of the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P). I3P, a consortium of leading cyber security research organizations, worked with industry, government, and academia to develop a comprehensive research and development agenda to improve the security of the nation’s computer and communications networks. Mr. Vatis also served as the executive director of the Markle Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, a highly influential group of technology company executives, former government officials, and civil libertarians that examined how the government could more effectively use information and technology to combat terrorism while preserving civil liberties. Mr. Vatis was the principal author of the group’s second report, whose recommendations were adopted by the 9/11 Commission and included in the 2004 Intelligence Reform Act. Mr. Vatis has regularly testified before congressional committees on counterterrorism, intelligence, and cyber security issues. He is also interviewed on television, radio, and in print media, and has been a guest lecturer at many prestigious law schools and universities and a frequent speaker at industry conferences worldwide.
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