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Interior Department Names Quinn to NCS Committee Of Principals

Arlington, Va., November 09, 2004 - The Department of the Interior today named Timothy Quinn, Chief of the Department’s Enterprise Infrastructure Division, Office of the Chief Information Officer, to serve as its representative to both the National Communications System (NCS) Committee of Principals (COP) and the NCS Council of Representatives. He replaces Mr. W. Hord Tipton as the Committee of Principals member.
The NCS Committee of Principals is a presidentially designated interagency group that provides advice and recommendations on national security and emergency preparedness telecommunications to the Executive Office of the President. It is composed of high-level Government officials representing 23 Federal operational, policy, regulatory, and enforcement organizations. As an interagency group, the COP serves as a forum for members to review, evaluate, and present views and recommendations on current or prospective NCS programs to the Manager, NCS, the Executive Agent (the Secretary of Homeland Security), and the Executive Office of the President (EOP).

Mr. Quinn is responsible for nationwide policy, planning and project management for DOI’s telecommunications and computer infrastructure. He develops information technology policy, ensures regulatory compliance, provides technical analysis and assistance, approves plans and installations, and establishes operational guidelines for the management of computers, telephone systems, radio communication systems, and data communication networks.

Mr. Quinn’s current priorities include managing the deployment of the Department’s Enterprise Wide Area Network, creation of an Enterprise Active Directory and completing implementation of the Department’s narrowband land mobile radio system.

Previously, Mr. Quinn was the Assistant Director for Information Resources Management at the U.S. Forest Service, where he managed telecommunications and computer systems. He represented the U.S. Department of Agriculture with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s Interdepartmental Radio Advisory Committee. He has also served as a communication systems manager with the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management and worked as a consultant to the timber industry.

Mr. Quinn holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Masters Degree in Management Information Systems from the California State University, Sacramento.

The National Communications System, part of the Department of Homeland Security’s Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection Directorate, consists of 23 Federal member departments and agencies and is responsible for ensuring the availability of a viable national security and emergency preparedness (NS/EP) communications infrastructure

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