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MITRE'S Center for Homeland Security Leadership Dr. Jason Providakes is director of MITRE's Homeland Security Center, providing strategic direction and leadership of MITRE's cross-company homeland security portfolio. Dr. Providakes leads a team of senior MITRE executives who provide unified program direction to ensure comprehensive, integrated, and strategic support to the Department of Homeland Security and its stakeholders. Dr. Providakes has been with MITRE for more than 20 years, serving in technical leadership roles for a wide range of military and civilian government agency programs; he previously served as executive director for the Joint and Defense-Wide Systems Division of MITRE's Command and Control Center, where he managed a diverse work program involving strategic and theater defense systems, including homeland security. He has participated in National Academy of Science studies and served on several Army Technology Independent Review Teams. He is currently a member of the Army Science Board. For the past several years, Dr. Providakes focused on the area of information systems as part of MITRE's larger mission of delivering enterprise systems engineering solutions. He also served as chief engineer for MITRE's Washington C3 Center. Prior to joining MITRE, Dr. Providakes completed graduate work in the electrical engineering department at Cornell University, where he obtained a doctorate, taught, and performed research in radar backscatter to study the Earth's ionosphere. Barbara Toohill, MITRE's Homeland Security Center deputy director, oversees the company's work for multiple DHS offices, programs, and acquisitions, including: the Secure Border Initiative, SBInet, US-VISIT, Customs and Border Protection, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Modernization, Immigration and Customs Service, Science and Technology Directorate, Office of the CIO, Office of the Chief of Procurement, and Office of the Chief Security Officer. Ms. Toohill has 30 years of experience as a strategist, leader, and systems engineer on critical federal systems and initiatives. She has worked with DHS since its inception, initially serving as the Program Manager for MITRE's support to the US-VISIT Program, where she and her team collaborated with DHS program executives to develop the vision for the US-VISIT technical concept and to achieve its legislative mandates. Prior to supporting DHS, she served as MITRE's Program Manager for the IRS Business Systems Modernization Program. Previously, she managed MITRE's Advanced Information Technologies Center, focusing on strategies for advanced command and control systems and incorporating modeling and simulation, artificial intelligence, and networking technologies. Ms. Toohill holds masters degrees in computer science and the management of technology. John Kreger is chief systems engineer of MITRE's Homeland Security Center. Mr. Kreger is responsible for integrating systems engineering capabilities and ensuring best practices across MITRE's efforts for multiple homeland security partners. He is also responsible for ensuring the quality of the execution and delivery of MITRE's DHS work programs. He works closely with the HLSC director and deputy director to identify programs that support the HLS mission, and collaborates with the chief technologist to determine current and future mission requirements that can be achieved through MITRE's technology solutions and R&D program. Over his 20-year career with MITRE, working on complex programs for the defense and intelligence community, Mr. Kreger has developed special expertise in systems acquisition and integration, technology insertion, and interoperability. Previously, Mr. Kreger served as Associate Executive Director of MITRE's Joint and Defense-Wide Systems Division, responsible for integrating Department of Defense (DoD) policy and standards to enable cross-Service and Agency interoperability. Prior to that, he was Director of MITRE's DoD Enterprise System Engineering Office. From 2005-2007, he lectured on "Building a Net-Centric Enterprise" for the Defense Acquisition University's Executive Program Managers' course. A retired U.S. Navy Captain, Mr. Kreger spent five years on board Navy nuclear submarines and 22 years in the Naval Reserve, including three command tours. He completed the Air Command Staff College Joint Military Operations program and has a master of science degree in systems engineering. Kimberly Warren is chief technologist of MITRE's Homeland Security Center, responsible for directing and guiding MITRE's homeland security-related research efforts, including the transfer of applicable innovative technology from non-HLS research. She is a member of MITRE's Chief Technology Officer's Innovation Council and has more than 20 years of experience in artificial intelligence, large-scale systems engineering, enterprise architecture, and supply-chain and enterprise collaborative technology. Ms. Warren previously directed MITRE's Screening, Credentialing, and Transportation Security work program, leading MITRE support to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Security Administration. As chief architect for MITRE's Center for Advanced Aviation Systems Development (CAASD), she played a lead role in evolving software processes and establishing strategic directions for software modeling, simulation, and laboratory assets. She was responsible for all software development processes for software deliverables, environments and tools, and also ensured coherent and modern software architecture and re-use. Ms. Warren previously served as a global director for General Motors, defining and executing a strategy for global development and deployment of new applications for the company's global designers, engineers, and product developers. She holds a master of science degree in artificial intelligence from Edinburgh University in Scotland. 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