Dr. Christopher Mineo

With 13 years of experience in the Department of Defense (DOD) and Intelligence Community (IC), Dr. Christopher Mineo is United States Cyber Command's technical director for Acquisitions and Technology Development (USCYBERCOM J9). Dr. Mineo's current priority is utilizing USCYBERCOM's Service-like authorities to deliver priority cyberspace capabilities with agility and at speed. This includes engagement of the cyberspace science and technology community, commercial partners, and our Allies, the integration and maturation of the Joint Cyber Warfighting Architecture (JCWA), and the successful technology transfer of mission-enabling technologies into the JCWA. 

Critically, Mineo led a working group spanning 14 DOD organizations to deliver the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Roadmap and Implementation plan for the Cyber Operations Forces of the Department as directed by Congress in the National Defense  Authorization Act. Mineo currently leads USCYBERCOM's AI task force to implement this roadmap with a key  objective: accelerate the further development, customization, procurement, and transition of the identified  AI and autonomy technology that underpins the doctrine of persistent engagement in the face of an evolving  landscape and evolving threats. To fully leverage this technology to scale cyberspace operations, the task  force addresses non-materiel challenges associated with the operationalization of AI-enabled systems.

USCYBERCOM will partner across the DOD, IC, multiple domestic industries, academia, federal laboratories,  and with our Allies to achieve this goal and integrate this AI and autonomy technology with JCWA.  

Dr. Mineo brings expertise in high performance computing (HPC), integrated circuit design, and computer  architecture to USCYBERCOM, with experience at the National Security Agency, IBM, and BAE Systems Inc.,  and a PhD from North Carolina State University. In addition to the application of AI to cyberspace operations,  Mineo's professional interests include optics and silicon photonics, compute accelerators, processor  microarchitecture, HPC networking and system architecture, and design and simulation methodologies. 

Dr. Mineo's professional passion is leveraging software and hardware technologies and architectural  concepts in novel, efficient compute systems to make the US Government's largest operational and analytic  challenges tractable and economic at scale-and achieving this with a mutually beneficial investment strategy  that enables the United States to remain the worldwide leader in this space.
 

Tina Jordan

Tina Jordan is vice president of Membership for AFCEA International and has served in this role for almost 10 years starting in 2014. She serves the 30,000+ AFCEA members through 138 chapters across 30 countries and the more than 1,600 corporate members that comprise AFCEA’s industry membership.

Before joining AFCEA International, Tina worked with Computer Sciences Corporation as their Director of Public Sector Alliances. She volunteered with AFCEA’s Washington, DC Chapter services in many roles including president, vice president, treasurer, secretary, scholarship chair, luncheon chair and chair of the DC Summer Gala. She also volunteered with AFCEA NOVA supporting several of their committees. Tina previously served on the Board of Directors of AFCEA International, participating in strategic planning and as a member of the Governance Committee.

She currently sits on the board of the Foundation for Innovation and Discovery, the Women In Business Initiative Advisory Board for George Mason University’s School of Business, and the Industry Advisory Board for Clemson University’s School of Computing.