Alan W. Dowd is a Senior Fellow with the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes on the full range of topics relating to national defense, foreign policy and international security. Dowd’s commentaries and essays have appeared in Policy Review, Parameters, Military Officer, The American Legion Magazine, The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, The Claremont Review of Books, World Politics Review, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Jerusalem Post, The Financial Times Deutschland, The Washington Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Examiner, The Detroit News, The Sacramento Bee, The Vancouver Sun, The National Post, The Landing Zone, Current, The World & I, The American Enterprise, Fraser Forum, American Outlook, The American and the online editions of Weekly Standard, National Review and American Interest. Beyond his work in opinion journalism, Dowd has served as an adjunct professor and university lecturer; congressional aide; and administrator, researcher and writer at leading think tanks, including the Hudson Institute, Sagamore Institute and Fraser Institute. An award-winning writer, Dowd has been interviewed by Fox News Channel, Cox News Service, The Washington Times, The National Post, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and numerous radio programs across North America. In addition, his work has been quoted by and/or reprinted in The Guardian, CBS News, BBC News and the Council on Foreign Relations. Dowd holds degrees from Butler University and Indiana University. Follow him at twitter.com/alanwdowd.

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Scott Tilley is a Senior Fellow at the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes the “Technical Power” column, focusing on the societal and national security implications of advanced technology in cybersecurity, space, and foreign relations.

He is an emeritus professor at the Florida Institute of Technology. Previously, he was with the University of California, Riverside, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, and IBM. His research and teaching were in the areas of computer science, software & systems engineering, educational technology, the design of communication, and business information systems.

He is president and founder of the Center for Technology & Society, president and co-founder of Big Data Florida, past president of INCOSE Space Coast, and a Space Coast Writers’ Guild Fellow.

He has authored over 150 academic papers and has published 28 books (technical and non-technical), most recently Systems Analysis & Design (Cengage, 2020), SPACE (Anthology Alliance, 2019), and Technical Justice (CTS Press, 2019). He wrote the “Technology Today” column for FLORIDA TODAY from 2010 to 2018.

He is a popular public speaker, having delivered numerous keynote presentations and “Tech Talks” for a general audience. Recent examples include the role of big data in the space program, a four-part series on machine learning, and a four-part series on fake news.

He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Victoria (1995).

Contact him at stilley@cts.today.

DoD gets new top uniformed cyber adviser

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Categories: ASCF News National Preparedness Cyber Security

Rear Adm. William Chase III has been selected to be the senior military adviser for cyber policy to the undersecretary of defense for policy as well as the deputy principal cyber adviser to the defense secretary, according to a July 13 news release from the Pentagon.

Chase will replace Maj. Gen. Dennis Crall, who was recently selected to service as the director of command, control, communications, and computers/cyber with J-6 and chief information officer for the Joint Staff as well as his third star. Chase is currently serving as the deputy director there.

With his dual roles, Chase will serve as the top uniformed cyber policy official at the Department of Defense, overseeing a wide portfolio to include implementation of policy, strategy and personnel matters pertaining to cyber issues across the department.

One of the biggest tasks in the last two years for this position was overseeing the implementation of the DoD’s 2018 cyber strategy.

Other notable personnel moves in Monday’s announcement include Rear Adm. Kathleen Creighton to director of information warfare integration with N2/N6F, and Rear Adm. Jeffrey Scheidt to deputy chief of computer network operations at the National Security Agency.

Creighton is currently the Navy’s Cyber Security Division director, and Scheidt is currently the commander of the Naval Information Warfighting Development Center, which was created in 2017 and serves as the Navy’s “top gun” for information warfare sailors.

Photo: Rear Adm. William Chase III holds a master of science degree from Carnegie Mellon University in information technology and a Federal Chief Information Officer certificate. (U.S. Navy)

Link: https://www.c4isrnet.com/cyber/2020/07/13/dod-gets-new-top-uniformed-cyber-adviser/

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