Mr. Mark Gorak is the Principal Director for Resources & Analysis in the office of the Chief Information Officer (CIO). Key responsibilities include monitoring and analyzing congressional activities and legislation; serving as the DoD CIO focal point for planning, programming, budgeting and execution processes; DoD CIO administration and management; and DoD’s digital and cyber workforce policy and development integrator.

Prior to his current role, Mr. Gorak served as the Deputy Director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC). In this capacity he served as the senior advisor to the Director with a focus on
attracting and cultivating mission-driven, world class talent to transform the Department of Defense through the integration of artificial intelligence.

From November 2019 to March 2021, Mr. Gorak served as the Director of People Analytics
within the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs (ASA
M&RA). As a senior advisor to M&RA, he was responsible for developing, managing, and
synthesizing the research design, strategy, and policies to ensure Army personnel data is
visible, accessible, understandable, trusted, interoperable, and secure.

Prior to entering civil service, Mr. Gorak served in the United States Army for over thirty-three
years. He began his military service as an enlisted truck driver who was inspired to become an
Army leader and later retired as a Colonel. As on officer, he served on the Joint Staff as a
Division Chief responsible for implementing military and civilian personnel policy, talent
management and readiness, reducing joint individual augmentees by 40% returning Service
members back to Services, directly increasing readiness. He also served in the Office of the
Secretary of Defense, Cost Assessment Program Evaluation (OSD-CAPE) as a program
analyst. In this role, he established and led a DepSecDef wargaming group whose aim was to
revitalize, synchronize and prioritize Department wargaming efforts. He founded the
Department’s Defense Wargaming Alignment Group as well as the warfighting lab incentive
fund, which provided operational concept innovation through experiments and demonstrations.

His previous military experience includes serving as an OH-58 Scout helicopter pilot in 1st
Cavalry Division; C-12 King Air, fixed-wing aviator with XVIII Airborne Corps, commanding
Charlie Company 228th theater aviation company; Headquarters, United States Military
Entrance Processing Command serving as lead operations analyst; Army G-1 as branch chief
for military personnel programs responsible for program and execution of military pay; and the
US Army manpower analysis agency where he served as a senior analyst. He also served with
Joint Task Force-Iraq (JTF-I) as Deputy J5 evaluating US force presence conducting strategic
assessment of the theaters progress in achieving campaign objectives resulting in revisions to
implementation plans.

In addition to his military assignments, Mr. Gorak has chaired various Military Operations
Research Society working groups for over three years and is a six-sigma black belt. His
education includes an MS in National Resource Strategy from the Eisenhower School –
National Defense University, an MS in Applied Mathematics from the Naval Post Graduate
School and a BS in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from Marquette University.
His accomplishments include receiving the Superior Civilian Service Award; twice recognized by
ASA M&RA, Legion of Merit; twice recognized, Defense Meritorious Service Medal; twice
recognized, and the Meritorious Service Medal; twice recognized.

Mr. Gorak and his wife celebrate over 30 years of marriage and five children. He is an active
youth soccer and basketball coach in support of his children and enjoys traveling around the
country as an NCAA soccer referee. Lastly, he is a Wisconsin native, local supporter and
prideful part owner of the Green Bay Packers.

Vincent Sritapan is an (Acting) Section Chief in the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Cyber Quality Service Management Office (QSMO). In this position, Sritapan is leading the development and delivery of mobile security services and capabilities to help protect government networks. In response to the increase in remote work since the onset of the COVID pandemic, CISA acted to improve mobile security across government at all levels by establishing the Cyber QSMO’s Mobile Security Services section. Sritapan also is assisting with 5G research and development (R&D) activities in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) in support of CISA’s 5G Strategy.

As Acting Section Chief in the Cybersecurity QSMO, Sritapan is leading CISA’s cross-functional teams that are tackling emerging risks and developing cybersecurity services to address enterprise mobile challenges, including mobile device, mobile application, and mobile network security.

Sritapan is also leading the Federal CIO Council’s Federal Mobility Group (FMG), a cross-agency forum for government mobile technology leaders and a critical “voice of the customer” for CISA’s mobile security initiatives. He currently serves as FMG Co-Chair along with representatives of the General Services Administration and National Institute of Standards and Technology, helping drive the strategy development in mobility and sharing information across Federal departments and agencies. Additionally, Mr. Sritapan serves as the Co-Chair, along with a representative of the Department of Defense, of the Committee for National Security Systems’ Mobile and Wireless Security (CNSS) Working Group to address policy and directives for mobility in national security systems.

Prior to joining CISA, Sritapan served six years as the Mobile Security R&D Program Manager at DHS S&T, where he led foundational R&D efforts in mobile security. In this position, he helped accelerate the adoption of secure mobile technologies for the Department, government and global community. He also served multiple years in the DHS Office of the Chief Information Security Officer as the Technical Lead and Security Architect in the Information Security Architecture and Engineering Division.

Sritapan holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems from California State University,  Northridge, a Master’s Degree in National Security Studies, and a Master’s in Business Administration in Information Assurance and Security Management from California State University, San Bernardino. He also is an alumnus of the National Science Foundation CyberCorps Scholarship for Service and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence Intelligence Community Scholar programs.

Sritapan currently serves a direct commissioned officer in Information Warfare in the U.S. Navy Reserve.

Mr. Bryan W. Schromsky, Managing Partner of Federal Government & Public Safety for Verizon Wireless, has been with Verizon Wireless for more than 20 years.  During his tenure, he has held various engineering, marketing, and project management positions.  Bryan has worked closely with Federal, State, and Local government agencies in designing and implementing public safety voice and data networks using 2G, 3G and 4G and now 5G wireless data technologies.  Mr. Schromsky is a graduate of the University of Kentucky and the FBI Citizens Academy.

Mr. Schromsky has served on various government mobility panels to provide assistance and guidance to their mission and these panels include the FBI Information Technology Study Group, NOBLE, HAPCOA, National Security Agency, and IACP mobility committees.  Bryan has been nominated and approved by the Secretary of the US Department of Transportation to serve on the ITS Program Advisory Committee for three terms.