Dr. Louis J. Blazy Received the IEEE Reliability Society Lifetime Achievement Award

Dr. Louis J. Blazy was awarded for accomplishments over four decades in the federal government and academia in creating highly reliable systems for the CIA, NASA, FBI, and FDA.

Dr. Louis J. Blazy's biography:

Dr. Louis J. Blazy is currently President and CEO of ISAC-SE Consulting Group LLC, a systems engineering firm he established in 2007 upon retirement from the U.S. federal government after 31 years of service in the Information Communications Technology (ICT) area. ISAC-SE performs national security and cyber-security risk assessments for the Departments of Justice, Defense and Homeland Security. Louis's assignments in the federal government have included appointments at the Senior Executive Service (SES) at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). While at the FBI, Louis served as the Assistant Director (AD) of the Information Technology Operations Division (ITOD). While at NASA, he served as Director of the NASA's software Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Facility, Chief of the NASA Ames's Information Technology (IT) Research Division, and as Special Assistant to the Associate Administrator of Aerospace Technology. During his assignments at NASA, Louis was instrumental in developing innovative risk based testing techniques for the Shuttle program and autonomous vehicles program. While at HUD, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Louis also worked for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) where he served as Director of the Performance Engineering and Analysis Staff (PEAS), and built USDA's first performance management program in support of Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) for IT investments. He spent 10 years with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in various technical and managerial positions including Computer Scientist in the Office of Research & Development (ORD), Division Chief in the Systems Integration Office (SIO), and Chief Scientist in the Office of Information Technology. While at the CIA, he built industry's first operational Intrusion Detection Expert System (IDES). The IDES architecture is basis of all Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) in industry today. He also worked for the Department of Defense, Army Materiel Command, where he designed and built decision support systems for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) for the war fighter. Louis also served an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at University of Maryland University College (UMUC) where he has taught graduate levels courses in software and system engineering for 22 years. He holds several advanced degrees including a M.A., M.B.A. and a dual Ph.D. degree in Quantitative Methods and Human Factors Engineering from the University of Maryland College Park. He has published over 40 technical papers, and has been an invited keynote speaker to over 30 national and international conferences.