AFCEA Washington, DC October Monthly Breakfast Program
 
Ken Bible
Deputy Director, C4 / Deputy CIO Headquarters
U.S. Marine Corps

Mr. Bible currently serves as the Deputy Director of the Command, Control, Communications, and Computers (C4) Department at Headquarters Marine Corps. In this capacity, he also serves as the Deputy Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Marine Corps, and formulates and provides broad policy guidance governing Information Technology, Cyber Security, and communications infrastructure and applications in support of the U. S. Marine Corps. 

Mr. Bible was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in March 2015, having joined Executive Service as a Senior Leader in March 2013. Prior to his current assignment, Mr. Bible served as the Chief Technology Advisor for Headquarters Marine Corps for all matters pertaining to identification and validation of IT requirements, and lead for continuing assessment and identification of promising emerging C4 and information technologies for exploitation and application in the war fighting and business domains. 

From 2009 to 2013, Mr. Bible served as the Assistant Program Executive Officer (Engineering) for PEO Enterprise Information Systems (EIS) as assigned by the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR). In this role, Mr. Bible led the engineering competency for PEO EIS, and provided technical leadership to a portfolio comprising over $2 billion of information technology projects and programs designed to enable common business processes and provide standard information technology capabilities to the Department of Navy. 

Prior to joining the SPAWAR headquarters organization in 2009, Mr. Bible headed the Networks Engineering Division of the SPAWAR Systems Center Atlantic in Charleston, S.C., where he held the East Coast technical warrant for U.S. Navy Networks, and managed an organization comprising over 150 government employees executing over $150 million in total obligation authority. Mr. Bible focused engineering efforts on identifying impacts of net-centric software design patterns on core communications and networking capability afloat and ashore. In 2008, he was detailed as the Technical Director to support the stand-up of the Next Generation Enterprise Network (NGEN) System Program Office (SPO) at Navy Headquarters. 

Mr. Bible joined the SPAWAR Systems Center in 1994 as the lead engineer integrating commercial Geospatial Information and Services (GI&S) technology. His early assignments centered upon systems engineering and management of software intensive programs including the areas of Modeling and Simulation (M&S), geospatial analysis, and decision support systems. 

Mr. Bible served as the program manager for the Non-Obvious Relationships Awareness (NORA) initiative in the initial OSD-NII Horizontal Fusion portfolio in 2003. He also served as the Chief Engineer for the Fleet Environmental Information Management System (EIMS)/Protective Measures Assessment Protocol (PMAP) program, which was awarded the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) and Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Environmental Team Awards in 2008. 

Mr. Bible began his 30 years of civilian service in 1985 at the former Charleston Naval Shipyard, where he rose to be a nuclear qualified engineering supervisor for three engineering branches. His leadership in resolving technical and regulatory issues surrounding hazardous and radioactive waste streams contributed substantively to the successful operational closure of the facility resulting from the 1993 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) decisions. 
 
Janice Haith
Deputy Chief Information Officer
U.S. Navy

Ms Haith became Director, Deputy Department of Navy Chief Information Officer (Navy) (formerly-Director, Assessments and Compliance in April 2010, to the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Dominance. In this position, she is responsible for all Chief Information Officer (CIO) matters related to the US Navy. This includes Governance; Functional Area Manager/Portfolio Management; Enterprise Architecture; Information Assurance; Information Management/Information Technology; Efficiencies, and Clinger-Cohen Act Compliance.

Ms Haith was appointed a member of the Senior Executive Service in August 2004, as the Principal Deputy/CIO for the Defense Security Service managing day-to-day agency operations and overseeing development of a DoD Enterprise Security System. She subsequently was appointed as the Director, Intelligence Access for Warfighter Support (Under Secretary of Defense (Intelligence) to oversee development of Defense Intelligence policy for information sharing, foreign disclosure and management of the IT Portfolio.

Subsequently, she was assigned to the position, Director, Enterprise Operations/Federal Information Sharing Executive for the DoD CIO. Her responsibilities included DoD oversight and management of key Federal Information Sharing programs as well as Network Operations Policy and Strategy, Unified Capabilities and GIG policy exceptions.

A security, intelligence and CIO professional, since 1984, Ms Haith completed assignments of increasing complexity in an extensive range of organizations. This included
Security Adjudicator for the Department of Justice; a Program Element Manager (Security and Investigations) for Department of the Air Force; Joint Personnel Adjudication System Program Manager for USAF and DoD simultaneously; DoD e-Government Program Manager for Internal Efficiency and Effectiveness, and tenure as a Congressional Fellow on behalf of USAF.

Ms Haith graduated from Hampton Institute with a bachelor’s of arts in sociology and a master’s of science in technology management from the University of Maryland. She is also graduate of the National Defense University – CIO/Information Assurance Programs.

 
RDML Nancy Norton
Director of Warfare Integration for Information Dominance (OPNAV N2/N6F)
U.S. Navy

Rear Adm. Nancy Norton is a native of Oregon and graduated from Portland State University with a Bachelor of Science in General Science. She was commissioned in 1987 as a general unrestricted line officer through Officer Candidate School.

As an information professional, Norton has served in information dominance billets at all levels, afloat and ashore. Early assignments were at Naval Communications Area Master Station Eastern Pacific in Hawaii and Naval Telecommunications Center, Fallon, Nevada, where she was the officer in charge. She served two tours directing cyber security programs for U.S. Pacific Command, and commander in chief, Pacific Fleet and commanded Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station Bahrain during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Norton served afloat as command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) officer on the staff of commander, Cruiser/Destroyer Group 12 aboard USS Enterprise (CVN 65), completing the 2001 deployment to the North Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea, Arabian Gulf and North Arabian Sea supporting Operation Enduring Freedom immediately following 9/11. She later served as the deputy director for Knowledge Management on the staff of commander, Naval Forces Europe and commander, U.S. 6th Fleet where she was responsible for all Fleet C4 issues afloat and ashore, and the Maritime Domain Awareness program in Europe and Africa as the J6 for Joint Task Force Lebanon in 2006. 

Headquarters assignments include: OPNAV N6 as C4I requirements officer integrating Fleet and Shore FORCEnet programs; the lead for C4ISR and Global Posture issues for the Navy’s 2008 Quadrennial Defense Review office; executive assistant to the N6; and deputy director for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Capabilities in the reestablished N2/N6.  She served as executive assistant to the vice chief of Naval Operations and, then, the chief of Naval Operations from 2010 to 2012, and most recently as the director, Command, Control, Communications and Cyber Directorate, U.S. Pacific Command. Currently, Norton is serving as the director of Warfare Integration for Information Dominance.

Norton earned a Master of Science in Computer Science from the Naval Postgraduate School and a Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College, where she was the President’s Honor Graduate. She served as a Fellow on CNO’s Strategic Studies Group XXXII.

Norton is the recipient of various personal and campaign awards including the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit (two awards), Defense Meritorious Service Medal, and Meritorious Service Medal (two awards).  Additionally, she is a recipient of a Navy League Award, Young AFCEAN Award, Copernicus Award, and the National Security Agency’s Frank B. Rowlett Award for personal achievement in Information Security.
 
0Col Scott Stebbins
Chief, C4 Strategic Planning Division, C4 Directorate
U.S. Marine Corps