- 1. Career Highlights Dr. Amit K. Maitra December 2008
2. Summary
- Dr. Maitra offers extensive experience in civil, space,
defense, and intelligence communities, including thorough knowledge
of the international context of technical cooperation and
space-related project implementation.
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- Balanced Government Portfolio
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- Major Cabinet Departments
- Proven leadership and management to Federal agency programs and
activities relative to
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- Information and Data Sharing
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- Fusion of structured and unstructured data and information
from:
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- Analysis, integration and interoperability of information and
data to create Business Intelligence
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- Tailored to the needs of key customers and stakeholders
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- National Security Systems
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- Classified Information Systems
3. Accomplishments-
- As the Chief Technology Officer of Lockheed Martin Information
Services & Global Solutions (IS&GS) Enterprise Solutions
(ES) Operating Unit, Dr. Maitra provides oversight and guidance to
the development and coordination of enterprise architecture support
across all ES Lines of Business to most of the Federal programs and
projects that the ESgroup supports to ensure that:
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- There is synchronization of the EA with particular agency
missions, strategies, and goals, including OCIO IT Investment
Portfolios
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- Actionability and alignment of EA with OMBs FEA along the lines
of the Business, Technical, and Data architectures.
- Dr. Maitra plays a major rolein integratingEAbusiness
processesandgovernancewithstrategic planning, investment decision
management, portfolio management, requirements, and transition and
sequence planning to provide a seamless business and technical
management environment. In several unprecedented new-start
programs, the government program management has appointed Dr.
Maitra as theonly non-civil service memberof thegovernments
Governancebodies withinDHSandNASASpace Station Program.
- During 2004-2006, Dr. Maitra participated in the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) Data Reference Model(DRM)Interagency
Team as a representative of the Offices of the Secretary of Defense
and the Secretary of the Air Force. He forged the necessary
conceptual agreements crucial to advancing mission-related
information-sharing challenges faced by the Federal, State, Local
and Tribal Agencies and also authored the DRM v2.0Management
Strategy Document , which helped the team members turn myriad
agency and experience differences into a source for our collective
strength.He received commendation from the Co-Chairs of the OMB
Architecture and Infrastructure Committee for demonstrating the
efficacy of his collaborative organizing practice around
Net-CentricCommunities of Interest (COI)that he proposed and is now
recognized as integral to the implementation and evolution of DRM
v2.0.
- During 1986-1991, Dr. Maitra directed the implementation ofthe
Information Engineering Methodology (IEM) for the NASA Space
Station FREEDOM Program (SSFP). His performance in refining the
multi-mission, multidiscipline Space Station information systems
architecture, including standards for data integration and
interoperability earned him thehighest merit citation Superiorfrom
the NASA Space Station FREEDOM Program Office.
- Dr. Maitra is a published author of several books on the uses
of information and satellite-based telecommunications technologies.
He gives frequent speeches, including keynote addresses in
Government and industry forums. He is a founding member of the
Clarke Institute for Telecommunication and Information (Washington,
DC). He is also active in the Society for Space Professionals.
4. Leadership Roles Level Aspects Scope Impact Audience
Enterprise Architecture
- Standards, Policies, and Principles
- System of System Integration
- Intelligence Mission Enterprise Integration
- Integrated Mission Operations, Network Operations, and
Satellite Operations to manage & share data/information across
enterprises
- Office of the Management & Budget (OMB)
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
- U.S. Department of Defense(DoD), Office of the Secretary of
Defense(OSD)/Networks & Information Integration (NII)
- NASA Space Station Freedom
Segment Architecture
- IT Alignment with Business Strategies & Road Maps
- Transition & Sequence Planning
- Net-Centric Data Strategy
Line of Business
- Collaboration & Information Sharing
- Space Situation Awareness & Control
- Enterprise Operations & Infrastructure
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- Major efficiencies in national security and IT Operations&
Infrastructure Costs
- Agile & Industry Best Practice Processes , Technical
Innovation
- Innovative, Value-added Solutions that address DHS Missions and
Hard Problems
- U.S. Customs & BorderProtection
- U.S. Transportation Security Administration/Secure Flight
Program
- U.S. Army Information Technology Agency
Solution Architecture
- Service ManagementFramework
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- Governance & Strategic Management
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- Continuous Improvement ITIL)
- Operational Service Management
- Transformational Service Management
Functions/ Processes Operational Outcomes
- Australian Tax Office End User Computing
5. Experience
- Front-end Analysis and Enterprise Architecture
Legend: Phase 0, 1 refer to the SDLC of DoD and Non-DoD
Government Agencies Phases A and B refer to the NASA SDLC
terminologyClients Issue Definition PhaseIntel Community (NSA) User
Requirements /Concept Definition Intelligence, Use, and
Specification Development Phase 0 Phase 1 Non-DoD Govt. Agency
(DHS/CBP/TSA/SF) User Requirements /Concept Definition System
Specification, Acquisition Plan, Source Selection DoD (Army, Navy,
AF) Mission Needs / Concept Exploration Program Definition Phase A
Phase B NASA Advanced Studies/Preliminary Analysis Program
Requirements /Specification Development Hi-Tech Commercial
(Non-Govt. Business ) (Nextel Wireless Communications) Product
Requirements Product Definition 6. Experience
- Implementation & Integration
Legend: Phase 2, 3 refer to the SDLC of DoD and Non-DoD
Government Agencies Phases C and D refer to the NASA SDLC
terminologyClients Research & Dissemination Intel Community
(NSA) Planning & Analysis /Draft Report Distribution Phase 2
Phase 3 Non-DoD Govt. Agency (DHS/CBP/TSA/SF) System Implementation
Deployment, Integration, Test Verification & Validation DoD
(Army, Navy, AF) Full-Scale Engineering Development Production,
Fielding/ Deployment & Operational Support Phase C Phase D NASA
Design Development Hi-Tech Commercial (Non-Govt. Business ) (Nextel
Wireless Communications) Product Development Engineering Model,
Internal Test 7. Relevant Achievements
- INFORMATION SHARING/DATA MODELING
- Joint/Combined/Coalition Forces to Combat Terrorism
8. Information Sharing :Fostering Collaboration to Secure
Systemsfor Critical Health Care Services.06/07/09 Amit K.
Maitra
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- Assisting Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention to
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- Develop Enterprise Architectures focusing on integration and
interoperability
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- Develop next generation ISACsfocusing on improving and securing
all the health care community systems needed to provide critical
services.
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- Refine IT infrastructures by leveraging technology
innovations.
Develop Information Sharing and Analysis Centers collaborative
private/public bodies set up to address critical national
health-care needs. My Contribution The Challenge
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- Enabling information sharing between public and private
entities for the safety of the American public
Legend:ISAC Information Sharing & Collaboration Working
Group 9. Interoperability and Integration :Enabling Coalition
Warfare (Joint Vision 2020) 06/07/09 Amit K. Maitra
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- Provide Independent, objective leadership as Technical
Direction Agent for Interoperability
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- Make operations among participating nations timely, effective,
and efficient
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- Integrated information across all elements of the
military.
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- Leveraged rapid technology advances
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- Enable cross-group alliances, partnerships, andprocess
improvements
Fully integrated command and control system as our forces evolve
towards a network-centric environment.My ContributionThe
Challenge
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- Interoperability through alliances, information integration,
and rapid technology deployment.
10. Interoperability Communications & Equipment: Guiding the
Evolution of the Nations Most Complex Command Center 06/07/09 Amit
K. Maitra
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- Apply end-to-end Systems Engineering to assure success
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- Maintain mission-critical operations during major
transitions
My ContributionsThe Challenge Modernize the national command
center systems while maintaining continuous operations
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- Reliability, interoperability, and performance
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- Creating System and Enterprise Architectures
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- Assessing project planning and execution
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- Validating designs and specifications
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- Managing system performance risk via analysis, modeling,
prototyping
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- Supporting users throughout transition to ensure continuous
operation
11. Integrated Border and Port Security Systems : Customs and
Border Protection (CBP)-Automated Customs Environment(ACE),
Transportation Security Administration (TSA)-Secure Flight (SF),
Transportation Threat Assessment and Credentialing (TTAC) 06/07/09
Amit K. Maitra My ContributionsThe Challenge Preventing terrorist
and their weapons from crossing our borders while facilitating
trade and travel.
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- Acquisition Strategy and Management
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- Enterprise Information and Data Architecture focusing on
interoperability and integration
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- End-to-end Systems Engineering
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- In support of TSA-Secure Flight, TTAC Programs, provide expert
advise on
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- DHS Program Management Office Governance Framework
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- DHS Information Sharing Working Group
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- DHS Data Management Policy
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- As a trusted partner, facilitated the collaboration and
information sharing between CBP and DHS Information Sharing Working
Group
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- Assist collaboration and recommendations tostakeholders to
ensure mission and transition needs are met
- ACE: Automated Customs Environment
- CBP: Bureau of Customs and Border Patrol
- TTAC: Transportation Threat Assessment & Credentialing
12. Integrated Border and Port Security Systems :Leadership and
Modernization Expertise to the United States Coast Guard 06/07/09
Amit K. Maitra
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- Transitioning the mission, the organization, the assets from
pre- to post- 9/11
My Contributions The Challenge The U.S. Coast Guard, which had
enormous responsibilities before 9/11, now finds itself playing a
central role in the drive to enhance the nation's security at
home
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- Provide a central and objective role in modernization
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- Enterprise Architecture andEnterprise Transition Plan
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- Alignment of pre/post 9/11 modernization plans and operational
procedures
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- Provide leadership and coordination related to DHS, DoD, and
numerous internal groups and contractors
- DHS: Department of Homeland security
- DOD: Department of Defense
13. Backup Net-Centric Communities of Interest ( COIs )
supported by Business, Enterprise Information Environment, and
IntelligenceMission Areasand their respectiveDomains . 14.
Value-added Experience
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- Intelligence and Analysis
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- Collection, categorization, harmonization, and registration of
data for intelligence analysis and information
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- Finished analysis tailored to the needs of key customers and
stakeholders
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- Change from Need to Know to Responsibility to Provide
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- Leadership for Information Sharing/Net-Centric Data
Strategy
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- Shared Mission Communities
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- Trusted Community (COI) based on participation drawn from
several domains/ agency components
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- Leadership in Governance/Program Management
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- Chair senior-level Information Sharing Coordinating Council and
establish appropriate boards, IPTs, and technical working groups to
provide forums for functional and technical managers to exchange a
full range of views about enterprise integration architecture and
to facilitate inter-project tasks, such as application integration,
technical data architecture, conversion and migration planning, and
end-to-end platform testing for deploying classified network.
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- Develop a teamwork with the Prime and Sub-contractor
personnel
15. Revolutionary Moments: The Mandate Amit K. Maitra Our
success depends on agencies working as a team across traditional
boundaries to serve the American people, focusing on citizens
rather than individual agency needs.~President George W. Bush 16.
Amit K. Maitra
- No common frameworkor methodology to describe the data and
information that supports the processes, activities, and functions
of the business
- No definitionof the handshake or partnering aspects of
information exchange
- Existing systems offer diffused content that isdifficult to
manage , coordinate, and evolve
- Information is inconsistent and/orclassified
inappropriately
- Without a common reference, data iseasier to duplicatethan
integrate
- No common method to share datawith external partners
- Limited insightinto the data needs of agencies outside the
immediate domain
- Data and Informationcontext is rarely defined
- Stove piped boundaries , no central registry
- Lack of funding andincentiveto share
- Data sensitivity andsecurityof data
- New laws/issues result incontinuous adding of databasesthat can
not share data
Primary Issues and Information Sharing Barriers The Current
Situation :The Federal Government is less than efficient in
performing its business and meeting customer needs due to data
sharing inefficiencies caused by stove-piped data boundaries
Stove-Piped Data Boundaries As Is State Have Created HHS INDUSTRY
Illustrative CDC DHS TSA USDA DOI ENERGY LABOR FDA INS Denotes data
and information sets within agencies. 17. MODEL DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE
Amit K. Maitra
- A virtual representation ofallphysical data sources:
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- - Applications are to bedecoupledfrom data sources
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- - Details of data storage and retrieval are to
beabstracted
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- - Are to be easilyextendedto new information sources
The Architecture 18. The Structure Amit K. Maitra META OBJECT
FACILITY 19. The Tools Amit K. Maitra 20. Department of Homeland
Security and Federated Data Management Approach Amit K. Maitra 21.
The Result: Interagency Information Federation Dr. Amit K. Maitra
22. Unique Leadership Roles INFORMATION SHARING GOVERNANCE BOARDAND
SUBORDINATE BOARDS 23. Governance
- INFORMATION SHARING GOVERNANCE BOARD
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- Served as the only non-civil servicemember of the Department of
Homeland Security Information Sharing Collaborating Council,
representing Transportation Security Administration to:
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- Oversee information technology acquisition across TSA and
CBP
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- Ensure acquisitions comply with outstanding guidance,
regulations, and statutes
- SPACE STATION FREEDOM CONFIGURATION CONTROL BOARD (SSCCB) and
SUBORDINATE BOARDS, PANELS
- Appointed as the only non-civil servicemember of the SSCCB
International PlanningGroup, representing the Space Station
International Directorate to:
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- Develop and sustain information sharing in and among the
fourteen International Partner(IP) countries
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- Serve as the SSFP HQs primary interface with the IPs, their
prime and sub-contractors for all national security export
controlissues
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- Ensure all space station technology transfers comply with
export control policy administration guidance, regulations, and
directives, and strengthen export control assurance activities for
NASA Space Station Freedom Program.
24. International Programs Office All Space Station Freedom
Directorates