Edward Graham is a technology reporter for Nextgov/FCW, where he reports on national security technologies and policies, the Department of Veterans Affairs and election security issues. He received his master’s degree in Journalism and Public Affairs from American University in 2016. If you have a tip you'd like to share, Edward can be securely contacted at Grahed.40 on Signal.

Terry Halvorsen serves as Vice President Client Development for IBM’s U.S. Federal Market organization. Halvorsen spent over three decades with the federal government in senior and influential roles including as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Department of Defense (DOD) and CIO for the Navy. Most recently Halvorsen served for two years as General Manager for IBM’s U.S. Federal Market technology organization. Before joining IBM, Halvorsen was CIO and executive vice president for IT and mobile for Samsung Electronics.

In addition to his civilian government career, Halvorsen also served as an Army intelligence officer during Operation Just Cause in Panama and Operation Desert Storm in Kuwait and Iraq.

Halvorsen’s work in the government has been recognized twice with a Federal Computer Week Federal 100 award, in 2010 as the senior civilian at the Naval Network Warfare Command on its Cyber Asset Reduction and Security initiative, and in 2016 as DOD CIO on cloud computing and the Joint Regional Security Stacks. He has also received both the Meritorious and the Distinguished Presidential Rank Award for exceptional performance as a senior executive in federal service. 

Halvorsen holds a bachelor's degree in history from Widener University and a master's degree in educational technology from the University of West Florida. He is a Rotary International Paul Harris Fellow and an Excellence in Government Leadership Fellow.

Jim has spent over 25 years in the technology space.  He brings background across many technologies, creating solutions and products for the Federal and managed service markets.  He started his career in software development, scripting, automation and operations.  Prior to Palo Alto Networks, Jim spent 13 years as CTO for Iron Bow Technologies focused on developing and deploying solutions for the Federal Government.  From 2004 to 2008 Jim managed the engineering team focused on the Army and DoD agencies for EMC Corporation.  During his tenure, Jim used his security and scripting background to create automated STIG scripts used by EMC in hundreds of deployments throughout the DoD.  

Prior to working with the Federal government, his background is in operations and solutions working in software development, telecommunications, service providers and managed services.