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Dr. Jason F. Providakes Senior Vice President and General Manager Center for Connected Government Director Homeland Security Center The CCG includes the Center for Enterprise Modernization (CEM), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)/Veterans Affairs (VA)-sponsored FFRDC; the HLSC; and the Center for Transforming Health (CTH), a mission center focused on integrating MITRE's work in healthcare. The CCG also supports other civilian agency customers like the U.S. Judiciary and the U.S. Census Bureau. With a strong enterprise perspective and broad experience across MITRE, Dr. Providakes' focus is on evolving and maturing CCG's work program and increasing MITRE's collective impact on critical challenges facing the DHS, IRS, VA, Health and Human Services, and other civilian government agencies. Prior to leading the CCG, Dr. Providakes was executive director for the Joint and Defense-Wide Systems Division of MITRE's Command and Control Center. He managed a diverse work program involving strategic and theater systems with enterprise-wide implications across the Department of Defense (DoD). Dr. Providakes focused on supporting the DoD's Chief Information Officer (OSD/NII-CIO) to ensure an enterprise systems engineering approach was being applied across DoD programs. Dr. Providakes' previous roles at MITRE included chief engineer for the former Washington Command, Control, and Communications Center with responsibility for the Center's independent technology program. In addition, he was executive director for MITRE's Army Systems & Technology Division with a work program spanning multiple locations and consisting of strategic and theater systems. Dr. Providakes was a key architect for the Army's transformation—"digitizing the battlefield." Since joining MITRE in 1989 as a lead scientist, Dr. Providakes has filled numerous leadership roles for a range of military service and civilian government agency customers. He is a member of the Army Science Board and has led and participated in several National Academy of Science studies. For the past several years, Dr. Providakes has focused on the area of information systems as part of MITRE's larger mission of delivering enterprise systems engineering solutions. Prior to joining MITRE, Dr. Providakes completed graduate work in the electrical engineering department at Cornell University, where he obtained a doctorate in 1985. From 1985 through 1989, he taught and performed research in the area of radar backscatter to study the earth's ionosphere and published extensively. He holds master's and bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic University.
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Dr. Jason Providakes is senior vice president and general manager for the Center for Connected Government (CCG), an organization with a mission to more effectively address critical national priorities and integrate across The MITRE Corporation's expanding portfolio of civilian agency programs. In addition, Dr. Providakes is the director of MITRE's Homeland Security Center (HLSC), which operates the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Systems Engineering and Development Institute (SEDI™) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC). Established in March 2009, the HS SEDI provides systems engineering expertise and acquisition strategy advice to major programs to improve enterprise policies, processes, and tools to more efficiently and effectively deliver mission capabilities to ensure the nation's security.