EDS has announced President George Bush intends to appoint Albert J Edmonds, president of EDS US Government Solutions, to serve on the administration`s National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) and help safeguard America`s cyber security and economy.
The President established the NIAC in 2001 to provide advice on the security of information systems for critical infrastructure supporting various sectors of the economy including energy, banking and finance, transportation, manufacturing and emergency government services. In addition, the council will propose and develop ways to encourage private industry to perform periodic risk assessments of critical information and telecommunications systems.
The 30-member council has expertise relevant to the functions of the NIAC and was selected from industry chief executive officers, academicians and state and local government representatives with responsibilities for the security of critical information infrastructures.
Edmonds oversees EDS`s relationship with government - from strategic growth planning to delivery of the corporate services portfolio - for all US federal civilian, military and state and local government clients. He has spoken frequently on cyber security and homeland defense issues, and is an advocate of e-government as a means of improving government operations and information sharing across departments and agencies at the federal, state and local levels.
"It is a great honour to be called to serve by the President," said Edmonds. "Our nation`s critical infrastructure is being targeted by rogue nations and terror cells bent on disrupting our economy and our way of life. Though much of the infrastructure is owned and operated by the commercial sector, government has an important legislative, regulatory and enforcement role to play. Only through the joint cooperation of government and the private sector can we hope to safeguard our critical infrastructure."
A retired Air Force lieutenant general, Edmonds spent the later part of his military career as director for C4 Systems on the Joint Staff and then as the director of the Defense Information Systems Agency where he also served as manager of National Communications Systems and was responsible for directing the US President`s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee.
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