Hale joins the NCS having spent over two years as Chief Information Security Officer of Affiliated Computer Services, a Fortune 500 Information Technology company. Previously, as Director of the Federal Computer Incident Response Center, Hale led the transition of that organization into the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and served as Deputy Director of the National Cyber Security Division's Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT).

While an officer in the United States Navy, Hale served as an information assurance action officer focusing on secure interoperability issues in the Joint Staff’s Command, Control, Communications and Computer Systems Directorate (J-6). While at the Pentagon, he was a member of the Joint Staff Information Operations Response Cell during a number of cyber events and exercises which helped shape the U.S. Government's computer security policy.