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Laura L. Callahan, Ph.D.
U.S. Department of Labor
Deputy Chief Information Officer
Director, Information Technology Center
Laura L. Callahan was appointed as the Department of Labor’s Deputy Chief Information Officer (CIO) in November 1999, and the Director of the Information Technology Center, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management in August 2000. As the Deputy CIO she provides leadership and management oversight of the Department’s Information Technology (IT) programs that comprise a $420 million investment portfolio. Dr. Callahan functions as the chief architect and primary IT advocate who justifies and defends the Department’s IT investment portfolio to external entities.
As the Director of the Information Technology Center, Dr. Callahan is responsible for daily operations of the core network infrastructure linking the Department to the Internet, and the wide area and local area networks that connect and enable data communications between the National and regional offices. She is also responsible for all applications systems development, enhancement, and maintenance activities that support business functions carried out by administration and management organizational units.
Dr. Callahan has served in the civil service for almost seventeen eighteen years, both in remote field locations as well as at national headquarters. She has worked in IT positions ranging from computer programmer to systems engineer and information systems security officer. She began her career with the Department of Defense in 1984 where she was responsible for orchestrating the design, development, implementation and maintenance activities for computer systems installed at U.S. Navy bases located in seven countries.
Dr. Callahan provided computer engineering and systems design support from 1991 to 1996 to researchers at the Defense Technical Information Center and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s Pittsburgh Research Center. Her engineering and design efforts focused on the implementation of laboratory information management systems for gaseous and health sampling analyses, and application of artificial intelligence to detect sensory stimuli for search and rescue activities.
Dr. Callahan worked for the Executive Office of the President in a leadership capacity where she had direct oversight of the network infrastructure and desktop computing environment used to support the business functions of the President, Vice-President, and other officials and offices at the White House.
Dr. Callahan is a member of the Chief Information Officer’s (CIO) Council, the Executive Council, and Co-Chair for of the CIO Council’s Committee on Security, Privacy, and Critical Infrastructure ProtectionWorkforce and Human Capital for IT Committee. She is a member of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association and the National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Committee. She is a published author on the subject of computer science and has received over 45 various awards and forms of recognition for her contributions as a civil servant. Dr. Callahan has Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Computer Science, and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Information Systems from Hamilton University.