PETER A. FREEMAN is Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation, heading the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate. As an Assistant Director he is part of the senior management team that helps formulate national science policy and that operates the NSF. He has cross-directorate responsibilities for cyberinfrastructure and homeland security research coordination. As AD/CISE, he oversees a staff of approximately 100 and a funding budget of approximately $600M/year. He was founding Dean of the College of Computing at Georgia Tech in 1990. Since May 2002, he has been on leave to serve at the NSF. Dr. Freeman received his Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1970, his M.A. in mathematics and psychology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1965, and his B.A. in physics and mathematics from Rice University in 1963.

 

RICHARD RUSSELL was selected in March of 2003 to serve as the Senior DIA Representative at the newly formed Homeland Security Operations Center in Washington, DC. In this effort, he served as a senior counter terrorism analyst and as Duty Director for Operations. He was appointed as Principal Deputy Director of the HSOC in August of 2003 and joined DHS permanently. Mr. Russell was designated as Director of Information Sharing and Collaboration for the DHS in March of 2004. Mr. Russell’s experience includes service as a police officer in Cary, North Carolina, as a Deputy Sheriff in Wake County North Carolina, where he was supervisor of the Records Division, and as Criminal Justice Instructor at Wake Technical College in Raleigh, North Carolina. Mr. Russell also served as Director of the Arkansas Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Training prior to entering the United States Army as an officer in 1982. Mr. Russell served the Defense Intelligence Agency as a Supervisory Administrative Officer, as Chief, Logistics Division, DIA, and as Chief, Operations Support Division, Missile and Space Intelligence Center. His experience with DIA includes all aspects of personnel, physical, and document security, counter intelligence, force protection, counter terrorism, and information technology security, facilities management, property accountability and logistics, safety, OSHA compliance, environmental law compliance, and Nuclear Regulatory Commission license issues, and internal and external agreements and audits. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Administration/Criminal Justice from Shaw University, Raleigh, North Carolina in 1978, Summa Cum Laude; and a Master of Public Affairs Degree in Criminal Justice Administration and Adult and Community College Education Administration from North Carolina State University in 1981.