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Ms Dawn C. Meyerriecks

Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)

Ms Dawn C. Meyerriecks is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). She is also the Commander of the Command and Control Applications Directorate, whose engineering products underpin all joint and service command and control systeMs

Ms Meyerriecks attended Carnegie Mellon University and was awarded a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering with a double major in Administration and Management science in 1981. She received her Master of Science in Computer Science from Loyola Marymount University in 1983.

From 1983-1994, Ms Meyerriecks worked with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Army C4I architectures and implementations in a variety of Chief Engineering and Program Management roles. Program associations included Southern Command's Command Center Upgrade, the Army standard Automated Message Handling System, and the All Source Analysis System.

Before joining DISA in September 1995, Ms Meyerriecks was the Chief Architect for the Army Global Command and Control System (AGCCS). She defined the architecture and led the integration and fielding of GCCS/AGCCS to Army supported Commanders In Chief and components.

From 1995-1997, Ms Meyerriecks was responsible for the engineering, integration, and production of the Common Operating Environment as Chief Engineer. Ms Meyerriecks was selected to be the Deputy Commander for the Center for Computer Systems Engineering in January 1998, joining the Senior Executive Service.

In 1998, Ms Meyerriecks was appointed as the Chief Engineering Executive for Information Processing. In this role, she provided the technical leadership and direction for the development and implementation of Joint Command and Control, Intelligence, Combat Support and Information Dissemination Management SysteMs These programs continue to fall under her current Command Directorate.

She was identified in the 19 November 2001 Fortune Magazine as among the Top 100 intellectual leaders in the world. Her recent awards include Federal Computer Week 2000 Top 100, InfoWorld 2001 CTO of the year for the government sector, the Presidential Distinguished Service Award in November 2001, the Senior Executive Service Exceptional Achievement Awards in 1998, 1999, 2000, and the National Performance Review in August 1996.

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