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Joaquin Martinez de Pinillos
PMW 120 PEO C4I SPAWAR
May 24, 2017 10:30 – 12:00
JOAQUIN J. MARTINEZ DE PINILLOS joined SPAWAR in 2010. Since 2015, Mr. Joaquin J. Martinez de Pinillos has served as the Technical Director for PMW-120.
In 2011 through 2014, he served as the Chief Engineer on the C2RPC Program supporting PEO C4I PMW 150. As the C2RPC Chief Engineer he was responsible for the successful deployment and implementation of C2RPC at 6th Fleet and 5th Fleet. He was also responsible for the implementation of software engineering practices on the C2RPC program.
Working for SPAWAR 5.0 he developed the hosting standards for all Navy data centers. This required communication of program information across cross-functional organizations such as SPAWAR 5.0 and with SPAWAR FRD. It also involved communication of program information across the Department of the Navy by working with OPNAV; PEO C4I and PEO EIS. These are first set of hosting standards ever developed and have been used to evaluate and measure the information security and operational risk associated with systems beyond the SPAWAR claimancy specifically NAVSEA and NAVAIR.
In addition to his PEO duties he is also helping formulate the SPAWAR cloud strategy.
Prior to joining SPAWAR he was Associate Director, Software Engineering, Office of Enterprise Development in the Office of Information and Technology at the Department of Veterans Affairs. As the Associate Director at the Office of Information and Technology at the Department of Veteran Affairs, he was responsible the architecture and engineering of all currently fielded and future IT systems at the Department of Veterans Affairs. This includes systems for Veterans Health, Benefits and Memorials as well as back office systems. The budget for the Software Engineering Office is approximately $75M annually and consists of over 130 personnel. The VA and VA IT Systems serve 4 million veterans, employing 180,000 medical personnel and operate in 163 hospitals, over 800 clinics and 135 nursing homes.
Prior to being at the Department of Veteran Affairs Mr. Martinez de Pinillos was the Program Manager for the Integrated Collaborative Environment (ICE) which was implemented throughout NASA and was used for sharing, collaborating, integrating, accessing and controlling the management information and product data that defines all products that are part of the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD). NASA’s Exploration Systems Mission Directorate is the section of the agency dedicated to fulfilling the Vision for Space Exploration and returning to the moon, going on to Mars, and exploring the rest of the solar system.
During his time with NASA, Mr. Martinez de Pinillos also served as the Development Manager for the ICE. Prior to accepting a position at NASA Headquarters, he worked at Anteon Corporation, where he served as a Technical Director and project manager on for the Air Force’s transformation product data management pilot which is now moving into full implementation. Before working at Anteon he was a Senior Solution Architect with PTC where he was the senior technical resource on a number of large projects including Future Combat Systems, EMC, etc.
Mr. Martinez de Pinillos holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Villanova University, as well as a master’s in Engineering Management with a concentration in Information Management and Information Systems from George Washington University.
Alan Hansen
Division Director Army I2WD
May 24, 2017 10:30 – 12:00
MR. ALAN S. HANSEN is Chief of the Intelligence Systems and Processing Division at the U.S. Army Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate (I2WD) in Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD. With over 30 years of Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) experience, Mr. Hansen is re ponsible for development and transition of tactical information fusion, multi-sensor fusion, and identity intelligence technologies. His organization is the engineering and productization lead for the Army’s flagship intelligence program, Distributed Common Ground System-Army (DCGS-A).
Mr Hansen began his career with the US Army Electronics Warfare Laboratory (EWL) in 1985. While working at EWL, Mr Hansen worked on various Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) related programs to include Guardrail V, Quicklook II and the Remote Relay System. In early nineties, Mr. Hansen was part of team that established the Army’s Joint Precision Strike Demonstration (JPSD) Office. There, he led an initiative that pioneered concepts of precision ground target tracking using real-time multi-sensor intelligence. For his efforts, he personally received the Commanders Medal from the Chief of Staff of the Army, GENERAL Gordon Sullivan.
After completing his work at JPSD, Mr. Hansen became the principal for modeling and simulation at the Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Directorate. There he oversaw directorate-wide support on Simulation Based Acquisition activities that focused on modeling the effectiveness of proposed system concepts prior to formal design. During his tenure, Mr. Hansen directed the development of the first Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) compliant Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) simulator, SINCGARS Radio Model, Joint STARS system trainer, and a high performance based computing electronic planning battlefield tool.
Mr. Hansen has performed duties as a Branch Chief and Chief Engineer for the Fusion and Modeling Division at I2WD. Mr. Hansen was responsible for technical development and transition of information technology related efforts that include sensor modeling and simulation and intelligence data fusion techniques. Technologies developed under Mr. Hansen’s direction are transitioned to the Army Battlefield Operating Systems such as All Source Analysis System, Common Ground Station and the Distributed Common Ground System-Army (DCGS-A).
Through 2004-2010, Mr. Hansen went on an assignment at Program Manager DCGS-A as the Program Developer Lead for the DCGS-A Version 3 (V3) Program of Record. As Program Developer Lead, he directed the design and development of the DCGS-A V3 program. The program followed a non-traditional approach by enabling a government laboratory facility to perform the integration, test and pre-deployment of a fielded operational system to Operation JUST CAUSE, Iraq. Following his assignment as Program Developer Lead, Mr. Hansen was selected as the Product Director for Emerging Concepts. While Product Director, he led the US Army’s first successful fielding of a tactical cloud computing environment to OPERATION Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan.
Since 2011, Mr. Hansen has been the Chief for I2WD’s Intelligence Systems and Processing Division. As Division Chief, Mr. Hansen manages the Science and Technology portfolio developing and transitioning capabilities in the fields of advanced computing environments, data analytics methods and techniques in support of data exploitation and information fusion. And the organization he manages today is also the engineering and production lead for the Army’s flagship intelligence program, DCGS-A Increment 1.
Mr. Hansen is a graduate of Pratt Institute with a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (minor) and has attended engineering graduate studies from the University of California – Los Angeles. He is a member of the Army Acquisition Corp with certifications in Program Management (Level III), Systems Engineering (Level III) and Program Systems Engineering (Level II).
His awards and decorations include; CSA Commanders Medal (1993), Army Commendation Medal (2002), Achievement Medal for Civil Service (2003), CERDEC Employee of the Year – Technical Category (2006), Computerworld Honors Program Laureate (2013), and the recipient of Military Intelligence CORPS – Knowlton Award.
David Mihelcic
Federal Chief Technology & Strategy Officer Technology and Cybersecurity Consultant Retired CTO for DISA
May 24, 2017 10:30 – 12:00
DAVID MIHELCIC is the Head of Federal Strategy and Technology supporting the Juniper Networks Federal sales, engineering, and operations teams. In this role, David is responsible for supporting the design and implementation of automated, scalable and secure networking solutions that meet government customer expectations, satisfy technical and certification requirements, and support global government missions.
David joined Juniper Networks in February 2017 following 18 years with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), where he retired as Chief Technology Officer, a position he held for more than 12 years. He served as the DISA senior authority on scientific, technical, and engineering matters and developed the DoD’s enterprise-wide systems engineering (EWSE) process and plan. He also established DISA’s board for facilitating and governing cross-program integration and synchronization.
Prior to his appointment as CTO, David held positions of increasing responsibility, including Deputy Program Director and Chief Executive Engineer for the Global Information Grid Bandwidth Expansion (GIG-BE) Program. In this role he was the technical authority for the $800+ million expansion of DoD terrestrial communications and was responsible for defining the GIG-BE architecture and leading the technical aspects of the program. Previously he was Chief Executive Engineer for the Defense Information System Network (DISN), Commander of the Center for Horizontal Integration, and DISA Deputy Chief Executive Engineer for Information Processing.
David was appointed to the Federal Senior Executive Service at DISA in 1999 and in 2007 he was selected to receive the Presidential Rank Award in recognition of a sustained record of exceptional professional and technical performance. Before joining DISA, David led the Network Security Section of the Naval Research Laboratory and was a Senior Consultant with SRI Consulting.
David is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering.