MR. MATTHEW LAZZARO
COMMAND/ORGANIZATION: U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center, U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command
TITLE: Chief, Cryptographic Modernization Branch
YEARS OF SERVICE IN WORKFORCE: 12
DAWIA CERTIFICATIONS: Level III in engineering
EDUCATION: M.S. in systems engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology; B.S. in electrical engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology
AWARDS: Army Acquisition Executive’s Excellence in Leadership Science and Technology Profes- sional of the Year; CERDEC Supervisor of the Quarter; Dr. William A. Novick Award
Strengthening the defense of Army data A 54 Army AL&T Magazine
s chief of the Cryptographic Modernization Branch of the U.S. Army Communications- Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC), Matthew Lazzaro finds himself on a front line of a different sort. “In this age of increasing cyberattacks and penetration attempts on the U.S. government, encryption equipment is the first line of defense for protecting our nation’s
most critical infrastructure,” he explained.
Lazzaro, whose branch is part of the Space and Terrestrial Communication Directorate, oversees 17 subject matter experts and 52 contractor engineers and engineering technicians, tasked with planning and directing programs involving cryptographic encryption devices integral to national security. He gets a lot of satisfac- tion from being part of the development cycle—“working in the same field and witnessing, as well as taking part in, the evolution of the Army network, from working legacy circuits that ran at 50 bits per second to backbone and encryptors reaching 100 gigabytes per second.”
He said the most important points of his career “have been working the entire life cycle of various encryption products, from initial test and evaluation, to fielding support, to the evolution of the product through soft- ware updates, and finally removing the product from the field and replacing it with new technology.”
Te biggest challenge Lazzaro faces is part financial, part inability to forecast the future: “Budgeting and proposing solutions for gaps that we don’t even know exist” is difficult, he said. “It’s hard to predict gaps and propose solutions for those gaps years in advance. My engineers regularly speak with program managers and field users to better assess needs so we can attack those larger gaps.”
October-December 2017
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