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National Communications System Names New Chief for Customer Service

Arlington VA, January 4, 2008 - The National Communications System today named Lawrence C. Hale as its Acting Director and Deputy Manager. Hale replaces Sallie McDonald, who served as the NCS Director and Deputy Manager for a year.

Lawrence C. Hale
NCS Acting Director and
Division Chief, Customer Service Division

Hale joined the NCS in November 2007 as the Chief, NCS Customer Service Division, after having 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.

Hale was one of Federal Computer Week's 2003 Federal 100 Award winners, recognized for his contribution as an information technology leader.

In January 1999, he became the first military officer assigned to the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC). While at the NIPC, Hale worked to improve the process of issuing warnings about cyber-related events and served on the Year 2000 (Y2K) task force in the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Hale retired from the U.S. Navy as a commander in May 2001. He has a master's degree in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College, and a master's in Aeronautical Science from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

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