2017 MILCOM

Terry Halvorsen
Chief Information Officer / Executive Vice President
IT & Mobile Communication B2B Business, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd


Mr. Terry Halvorsen started with Samsung electronics on April first of this year as an Advisor to the CEO and Executive Vice President in the Business to Business group. He has since been appointed as the Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice President IT and Mobile Business to Business group Samsung Electronics. Prior to Joining Samsung Electronics, Mr. Halvorsen Served as the Department of Defense Chief Information Officer from March 8, 2015 to February 28 2017. He previously served as the Acting Department of Defense Chief Information Officer from June of 2014 until March of 2015. He was the Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer from November 2010 until May of 2014. As DoD CIO, Mr. Halvorsen was the principal advisor to the Secretary of Defense for information Management / Information Technology and Information Assurance as well as non-intelligence space systems; critical satellite communications, navigation, and timing programs; spectrum; and telecommunications. He provided strategy, leadership, and guidance to create a unified information management and technology vision for the Department and to ensure the delivery of information technology-based capabilities required to support the broad set of Department missions. As the Department of Navy CIO, Mr. Halvorsen was the principal Information Technology, Information Assurance and privacy policy advisor to the Secretary of the Navy. Before serving as the Department of the Navy CIO, Mr. Halvorsen was the Deputy Commander, Navy Cyber Forces. He began serving in that position in January 2010 as part of the Navy Cyber reorganization. Previous to that, Mr. Halvorsen served as the Deputy Commander, Naval Network Warfare Command. He was responsible for providing leadership for over 16,000 military and civilian personnel and supporting over 300 ships and approximately 800,000 globally dispersed computer network users.

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