Wayne Austad has worked at INL for 31 years with more than
22 years of experience building impactful national security programs. As CTO
for National & Homeland Security he provides leadership and strategy for
the collaborative R&D, infrastructure, and partnerships needed for critical
programs, acts as Chief R&D Officer for CyManII, a DOE institute led by
UTSA focused on economically viable and pervasive cybersecurity in automation
and supply chain, and leads the Secure & Resilient Cyber Physical Systems
Initiative for the Laboratory. Previously as a Program Office Director, Austad
led efforts to build the Cybercore Integration Center and create a
collaborative, interdisciplinary teaming environment between federal agencies,
national labs, and academic institutions. Austad is the founding Chair of the
Cyber Partnership for Advancing Resilient Control Systems (CyberPARC), a
formal, self-organized collaboration between INL, Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratories. Austad was the founding program
manager for communications R&D at INL, coordinating multi-customer efforts
to create the industry-scale Wireless Test Bed to evaluate interoperability,
performance, and security of new technologies within INL’s Critical
Infrastructure Test Range Complex. After brief jobs with Conoco and DOE-Idaho,
Austad started his INL career in Artificial Intelligence & Simulation,
working on hybrid neural network / expert systems, machine health monitoring,
and 3D simulation environments for real-time robotic control. Austad earned a
MSEE and BSEE from the University of Wyoming with focus areas of Digital Signal
Processing and Computer Engineering.