Mr. Lawler brings humble executive leadership combined with global enterprise technical design expertise across the entire secure systems architecture development and operations life cycle. He has thirty-five years of experience in creating, designing, and piloting classified software solutions and scaling in global environments to meet national security objectives for US Government clients. These include cross-domain solutions and classified systems integration with corresponding cybersecurity measures. He successfully delivered results in battlefield combat operations, information security, insider threat, network security, global enterprise network architecture, systems architecture/integration, operations & management, mission system implementation, Assessment & Authorization, computer emergency response teams, and enterprise management of large global enterprises with mission critical processing to ingest, process, analyze, distribute, and secure sensitive US government information.
He provided key security policy and architecture inputs to build the most secure cloud system ever deployed in the Intelligence Community (IC) on a $250M+ contract. Strategic policy and technical challenges spanned all 17 IC organizations and the DoD. The integrated system covered multiple data centers and included automated activation of over 413,000 Top Secret user accounts from 17 different organizations. Mr. Lawler led an agile development team that created and delivered technical innovations at the IC Insider Threat Working Group. He directly contributed to achieving an Authority to Operate at HIGH, HIGH, MODERATE, INTELLIGENCE OVERLAY-C, PII-HIGH for this IC-wide virtual desktop cloud system—the most secure cloud system ever approved for operations in the IC.
As General Dynamics Automated Information Systems Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Mr. Lawler also served as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the National System for Geospatial Intelligence (NSG). He led the Global Enterprise Information Assurance team and Multi-Level Security initiative on a transformational National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency $2B program. He also led a team that developed enterprise policy, security architecture, and future information assurance initiatives including defense-in-depth, single sign on, PKI, multi-level security, computer network defense, controlled interfaces, and one-way transfer system security.
As a thought leader at General Dynamics, he provided Senior System Security Architecture guidance on labeled database architectures, high speed parallel processing solutions, data models, and release and downgrade processes supporting cross-domain systems. Mr. Lawler provided planning and security leadership for the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) Data Center-East and West global classified and unclassified data migration. He organized integration and network security for quick-turn innovation acceleration projects and provided vision for secure enterprise architecture and cross-domain data flows handling massive volumes of commercial intelligence data.
As Chief of Operations/Strategic Analysis Chief at the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), he led a specialized team delivering global network security services for 3.5M devices supporting 2.2M customers. Activating the DoD CERT, he stood up a global computer network defense showcase and technical center of excellence. Mr. Lawler also designed the technical foundation for the Joint Task Force-Global Network Operations (JTF-GNO) overseeing cyber security across all of the DoD. At the US Department of Veterans Affairs, he analyzed and provided recommendations for the implementation of the Government Information Security Reform Act (GISRA/FISMA) in preparation for Office of Management and Budget review; his team was nominated for a Federal Government Best Practices Award.
Mr. Lawler held the following positions and distinctions:
Education: BSEE--Digital Systems, Texas A&M 1989, MBA--Global Technology Management, University of Phoenix 1998, Systems Engineering, George Mason University 2000.
