https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/president-donald-j-trump-announces-intent-nominate-appoint-designate-personnel-key-administration-posts/
President Donald J. Trump today announced his intent to appoint and designate the following individual to a key position in his Administration:
Samantha F. Ravich of New Jersey, to be a Member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board and to be designated Vice Chair.
https://www.defenddemocracy.org/about-fdd/team-overview/samantha-ravich/
Biography:
Dr. Samantha Ravich is the chairman of FDD's Transformative Cyber Innovation Lab and the principal investigator on FDD's Cyber-Enabled Economic Warfare project. She is also a senior advisor at FDD, serving on the Board of Advisors of FDD's Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance (CSIF). Samantha is a defense and intelligence policy and tech entrepreneur. She served as deputy national security advisor for Vice President Cheney, focusing on Asian and Middle East Affairs as well as on counter-terrorism and counter-proliferation. Following her time at the White House, Samantha was the Republican co-chair of the Congressionally-mandated National Commission for Review of Research and Development Programs in the United States Intelligence Community. She is advisor on cyber and geo-political threats and trends to numerous technology, manufacturing, and services companies; a managing partner of A2P, a social data analytics firm; and a former non-executive Board member for the publicly listed firm DroneShield (ASX: DRO)
Her book, Marketization and Democracy: East Asian Experiences (Cambridge University Press) is used as a basic textbook in international economics, political science, and Asian studies college courses. Samantha is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and advises the U.S. Intelligence Community and the Department of Defense. She is a frequent keynote speaker on: What Corporate Boards need to know about Cyber Security and Warfare; The Longer-Term Trends in International Security; and the Future of Intelligence Collection and Analysis. Samantha received her PhD in Policy Analysis from the RAND Graduate School and her MCP/BSE from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
https://www.thecipherbrief.com/column/strategic-view/expelling-digital-demons-u-s-sensitive-supply-chains
It is beyond dispute that the supply chains for the electronic hardware used by U.S. armed forces are under attack. Security researchers have documented multiple cases of sophisticated, malicious functionality being surreptitiously introduced into such hardware potentially allowing an adversary, in times of crisis, to turn our own devices against us.
In 2011, it was reported that, “1,700 supposedly-new memory parts from an ‘unauthorized distributor’ showed signs of previous use, prompting the Missile Defense Agency to have to call for almost 800 parts to be stripped from the assembled hardware.” Then-head of the Missile Defense Agency, Lieutenant General Patrick O’Reilly, testified before the Senate that, “We do not want a $12 million THAAD [Terminal High Altitude Area Defense] interceptor to be destroyed by a $2 part.”