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New Members Named to the NCS Council of Representatives

Arlington, Va., March 12, 2004 - The National Communications System received four new members to its Council of Representatives (COR). The new representatives are Army Colonel Randall G. Conway Department of Defense, Navy Captain Lloyd E. Gilham, Office of the Joint Staff; Ms. Carol Higgins, National Security Agency (NSA); Mr. Thomas K. Kardaras, Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC); and Mr. Warren Schwartz, United States Postal Service (USPS).

Colonel Conway, is the Senior Military Command, Control, Communications, and Computer (C4) Analyst for wireless policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration. He replaces Navy Captain Lynne Hicks as the DOD COR. Prior to this role, he worked as the Division Chief for Network Management on the Joint Staff Command, Control, Communications, and Computer, Systems Directorate. In this capacity, he served in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Additional tours of duty include deployments to Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm.

Captain Gilham currently serves as the Military Secretary for the Military Communications-Electronics Board on the Joint Staff and replaces Army Colonel John Reidt as the Joint Staff COR. Receiving his commission through Aviation Officer’s Candidate School in 1981, Gilham has had an extensive career in military service. Prior to his position on the Joint Staff, Captain Gilham was assigned to the United States Forces Korea in support of United Nations Command, as the information Systems Engineering Branch Chief. His responsibilities in that position included management of all engineering and implementation of the combatant commander’s command and control systems throughout the Korean Peninsula.

As the Chief for Community, Civil, and Homeland Security Systems Division, Ms. Higgins serves an integral role in the Information Assurance Directorate of the National Security Agency. She replaces Gilbert Nolte on the council. In a career spanning over 20 years at NSA, her previous roles included several leadership and engineering positions in NSA’s Information Assurance Directorate. She served as Chief of the Information Security and Security Engineering (ISSE) Service Division, providing the Department of Defense, and various departments and agencies ISSE services.

Mr. Kardaras works as an information technology (IT) specialist in the Division of Incident Response Operations of the NRC and replaces Nadir Mamish as the NRC COR.. With over 25 years of IT experience, Kardaras currently manages several areas of NRC’s emergency response program. His responsibilities include managing NRC’S Emergency Telecommunications System (ETS) and Emergency Response Data System (ERDS). Prior to joining the NRC, Mr. Kardaras worked as an IT contractor in NRC’s emergency operations center.

Serving as the program Manager for Postal Radio Frequencies, Mr. Schwartz manages the wireless infrastructure design, development and implementation for the United States Postal Service. He replaces Timothy Patterson on the COR. Mr. Schwartz currently directs radio frequency spectrum management and overseas space based technology and wireless enterprise systems for all internal USPS business applications. Mr. Schwartz’s team represents the Postal Service in other intra-agency work teams including the Interdepartmental Radio Advisory Committee (IRAC) of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). With over 25 years of Federal service, Schwartz experience includes multiple areas of system development, including work with radio, satellite and microwave technologies.

The NCS is an interagency organization that combines the communications assets of 23 Federal departments and agencies to address national security and emergency preparedness (NS/EP) telecommunications related issues. The COR is the subordinate working group of the NCS Committee of Principals (COP). Through the COP and COR, the NCS provides NS/EP telecommunications guidance to the President, the Executive Office of the President, the National Security Council, the Office of Management and Budget, and the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

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