11/15/2023
Friendly reminder to join us for the RSFWF Membership Meeting. Registration and payment must be done prior to arrival. Our guest speaker is Charles S. Phalen. He is currently the principal and independent consultant at C S Phalen & Associates, LLC. He is an accomplished senior security executive with 5 decades of security experience, including more than sixteen years leading security programs at four federal agencies and a major defense company during periods of unprecedented growth, development, and challenge. Key areas of experience include the full range of security operations, government and industry partnerships, national and international crises, continuity of operations, business process reengineering, organizational development, P&L, and mergers. Mr. Phalen served as the Acting Director of the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) from June 2019 through March 2020. Mr. Phalen and his leadership team successfully merged the Office of Personnel Management’s background investigation program with the DOD’s Defense Security Service. The merged agency includes approximately 12,000 federal and contract personnel executing the government-wide personnel vetting program and the critical technology protection mission. Mr. Phalen was the Director of the National Background Investigations Bureau, an organizational element of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, from October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2019 (overlapping from June through September 2019 with the Acting Director/DCSA assignment). In this role, he led a government-wide organization providing investigations for national security, suitability, and credentialing determinations for more than 100 federal agencies. In his previous position, Mr. Phalen was Vice President of Corporate Security for Northrop Grumman Corporation and led the global security organization responsible for overseeing the security policies, procedures and processes that protect company employees, information, assets, and property worldwide. Prior to that, Mr. Phalen spent 30 years in federal service.
