Dr. Michael R. Grimaila

Michael is an associate professor and a member of the Center for Cyberspace Research at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, USA.  He is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP), and holds NSA IAM/IEM certifications.  He teaches and conducts research in the areas of information assurance, information warfare, and information operations.  Dr. Grimaila serves as an Editorial Board member of the Information System Security Association (ISSA) Journal and has served on the DoD/NII IA Best Practices and Metrics Working Groups.  He is a member of the ACM, IRMA, ISACA, ISC2, ISSA, ISSEA, and is a senior member of the IEEE. Michael holds a BS, Electrical Engineering; MS, Electrical Engineering; and PhD, Computer Engineering, all from Texas A&M University, USA

Michael Grimaila

Dr Edwin “Leigh” Armistead
Leigh is the Director of Business Development for Goldbelt Hawk LLC, the Programme Chair for the International Conference of Information Warfare and an Adjunct Lecturer for Edith Cowen University in Perth, Australia.  He has written nine books, 18 journal articles, presented 17 academic papers and served as a Chairman for 16 professional and academic conferences.  Formerly a Master Faculty at the Joint Forces Staff College, Leigh received his PhD from Edith Cowan University with an emphasis on Information Operations.  He also serves as a Co-Editor for the Journal of International Warfare, and the Editorial Review Board for European Conference on Information Warfare. 

Leigh Armistead

Dr. Michael VanPutte
Michael joined the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in 2006 as a Program Manager in the Strategic Technology Office. His interests lie in information assurance and computer network operations, artificial intelligence, and multi-agent systems. He is currently the DARPA program manager for multiple defensive cyber programs including the National Cyber Range, Dynamic Quarantine of Worms, and the Cyber Genome Program as well as a number of SBIRs, studies and research initiatives focused on revolutionizing cyber security and cyber scientific experimentation. Dr. VanPutte retired from the Army in September 2008 having served as an infantryman, airborne ranger, combat engineer officer and computer systems engineer.  From 2002 to 2006 Dr. VanPutte held a number of positions in the Joint Task Force - Global Network Operations, U.S. Strategic Command including Technical Analysis Branch Chief,  Strategic Defense Operations Branch Chief and Deputy Director of Operations. Dr. VanPutte was the Chief of the Knowledge Engineering Group, U.S. Army War College from 1997 to 1999. Mike received a BS from The Ohio State University, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Naval Postgraduate School.

Mike VanPutte

Dr. Steven K. Rogers
Steven is the Senior Scientist for Automatic Target Recognition and Sensor Fusion, Air Force Research Laboratory, Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH.  He serves as the principal scientific authority and independent researcher in the field of multi-sensor automatic target recognition (ATR) and sensor fusion. Steve has had an extensive career in both government service and civilian industry. He is a Fellow of both the IEEE and SPIE and was chosen to be the organizing chair the first IEEE World Conference on Computational Intelligence as well as being the Plenary Speaker for two WCCIs.

As Founder/President/CEO/Chief Scientist of Qualia Computing, Inc., then CADx Systems and then iCAD, Inc., Dr. Rogers led the effort to bring intelligent information processing to women’s health care. He was the primary driver of iCAD’s research and development activities. Dr. Rogers also has worked on developing practical applications of advanced information processing techniques for other medical products including feedback control medicine that allows customization of current medical practice to account for an individual patients response to standard therapy.  Steven has authored several hundred publications and been awarded 14 patents. He holds an MSc from AFIT and a PhD from the University of Colorado.

Steven Rogers

LTC Matthew Dosmann
Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Dosmann, US Army Reserve, has been a student both of counter insurgency as a member of a Military Transition Team serving with an Iraqi Army battalion in Diyala, Iraq and of Information Assurance in the US DoD’s GIG Information Assurance Portfolio Office

Matthew Dosmann

Dr. Dan Shoemaker
Dan is a Professor and Chair of the University of Detroit Computer and Information Systems program, which is located in their School of National Security Studies. He is also the Director of the Centre for Software Assurance in that School, which is currently executing a multi-million dollar contract with the Department of Defence (NSA) to develop secure software assurance content for higher education

Dan Shoemaker

Renier van Heerden
Renier is a senior researcher at Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa in the field of Information Warfare. Prior to joining the CSIR he worked as a software engineer in advanced optics applications for South African based Denel Optronics and as a Lecturer at the University of Pretoria.

Renier obtained a degree in Electronic Engineering and a Masters in Computer Engineering at the University of Pretoria.

Renier van Heerden

Dr William Mahoney

William (Bill) Mahoney received his B.A. and B.S. degrees from Southern Illinois University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Nebraska. He is a Research Fellow and Graduate Faculty at the University of Nebraska at Omaha Peter Kiewit Institute. His primary research interests include compilers, hardware and instruction set design, and VLSI. Prior to the Kiewit Institute Dr. Mahoney worked for 20+ years in the computer design industry, specifically in the areas of embedded computing and real-time operating systems. During this time he was also on the part time faculty of the University of Nebraska at Omaha.  His outside interests include bicycling, photography, and more bicycling.

Bill Mahoney

Updated 12 April 2010