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Home 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).
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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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.