Mr. Keith A. Rhodes

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  Published on: 3/18/2008    Last Visited: 5/12/2008  

  QinetiQ North America's Mission Solutions Group, a leading provider of mission-critical professional services to Federal government clients, named Keith Rhodes, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer.
  
  Past recipient of the Arthur Flemming Medal for Applied Science, Mr. Rhodes comes to QNA with 20 years of government service.Most recently, he served as the Chief Technologist and Director for the Government Accountability Office's Center for Technology and Engineering.As CTO, Mr. Rhodes served as the lead technical advisor to the Legislative Branch on issues requiring significant technical expertise.Mr. Rhodes also established a capacity within GAO for executing technology assessments and has delivered testimony, advice, presentations and papers regarding cyber-security, critical infrastructure and IT modernization programs.
  
  "Keith Rhodes' extensive experience as a government CTO, combined with his knowledge and respect as a scientist, uniquely qualifies him to lead the Mission Solutions Group's Technology efforts," said Michael Stolarik, President of Mission Solutions Group.
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  In addition to Mr. Rhodes tenure at GAO, he also served as a supervisory scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.At the National Laboratory, he managed and led the design, development and testing of a prototype space and ground based secure communications segment of a DoD strategic defense system.
  
  Keith Rhodes holds degrees in Computer Engineering from the Ohio State University and Engineering Physics from the University of California, Los Angeles.

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  Published on: 8/3/2008    Last Visited: 8/3/2008  

  More people in more places handling toxic agents create more opportunities for an accident or intentional misuse by an insider, Keith Rhodes, an investigator with the Government Accountability Office, said at a congressional hearing in October."The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the intelligence community were the ones who were most concerned about it," Rhodes testified.

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  "When the power grid [becomes] completely automated, when the oil and gas [infrastructure becomes] completely automated, we will have a very serious problem on our hands because we do have opponents and they're dedicated," said Keith Rhodes, chief technologist at GAO.

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  QinetiQ North America's Mission Solutions Group, a leading provider of mission-critical professional services to Federal government clients, named Keith Rhodes, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer.
  
  Past recipient of the Arthur Flemming Medal for Applied Science, Mr. Rhodes comes to QNA with 31 years of government service.Most recently, he served as the Chief Technologist and Director for the Government Accountability Office's Center for Technology and Engineering.As CTO, Mr. Rhodes served as the lead technical advisor to the Legislative Branch on issues requiring significant technical expertise.Mr. Rhodes also established a capacity within GAO for executing technology assessments and has delivered testimony, advice, presentations and papers regarding cyber-security, critical infrastructure and IT modernization programs.
  
  "Keith Rhodes' extensive experience as a government CTO, combined with his knowledge and respect as a scientist, uniquely qualifies him to lead the Mission Solutions Group's Technology efforts," said Michael Stolarik, President of Mission Solutions Group.
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  In addition to Mr. Rhodes tenure at GAO, he also served as a supervisory scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.At the National Laboratory, he managed and led the design, development and testing of a prototype space and ground based secure communications segment of a DoD strategic defense system.
  
  Keith Rhodes holds degrees in Computer Engineering from the Ohio State University and Engineering Physics from the University of California, Los Angeles.

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  Keith Rhodes was named senior vice president and chief technology officer (CTO) at QinetiQ North America's Mission Solutions Group.Rhodes, a recipient of the Arthur Flemming Medal for Applied Science, was most recently the Chief Technologist and Director for the Government Accountability Office's (GAO) Center for Technology and Engineering.He also served as a supervisory scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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  Published on: 6/18/2007    Last Visited: 12/22/2007  

  Witnesses: Scott Charbo, Chief Information Officer, Department of Homeland Security; Gregory Wilshusen, Director, Information Security Issues, Government Accountability Office; Keith A. Rhodes, Director, Center for Technology and Engineering, Government Accountability Office

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  Published on: 9/14/2007    Last Visited: 12/11/2007  

  Keith Rhodes, Chief Technologist, Center for Technology and Engineering, Applied Research and Methods, testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives, Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations (Committee on Government Reform), "Anthrax: Federal Agencies Have Taken Some Steps to Validate Sampling Methods and to Develop a Next-Generation Anthrax Vaccine," Government Accountability Office, May 9, 2006

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  Published on: 7/1/2007    Last Visited: 7/5/2007  

  Keith Rhodes, chief technologist at the US Government Accountability Office and the man known as the fed's top hacker, said a lack of configuration conformity has become a major security issue for all government agencies, which could be using as many as several hundred different security configurations.
  
  "This is gotta be better than it is now," he said in an interview with InformationWeek.
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  According to Rhodes, it's obviously going to cause some problems -- on top of the ones they're already dealing with.
  
  "It's going to be tough," he said."They have to inventory everything they have.First, that will be brute force pick-and-shovel stuff.Once you do a uniform reconfiguration, a lot of the unique or custom-made applications will break because you changed the underlying configuration.Maybe the software is talking to a particular application suite or a database and you've just altered the permissions in its environment."
  
  While Rhodes pointed out that a lot of these custom-made applications are critical to the enterprise, Paller noted that other applications also may struggle with the new configuration.
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  Rhodes agreed that after all the work is behind the IT managers, government agencies should be safer for it."What this will do is take away the egregious problems," he said.

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  Since then, the number of biosecurity labs that handle the most contagious and dangerous agents - like Ebola, smallpox and hemorrhagic fevers - has grown, to 15 from five, including one in the planning stages, Keith Rhodes, a Government Accountability Office investigator, testified.
  
  There has been a similar increase in second-tier biocontainment labs, which can also handle very dangerous substances like anthrax and the avian flu and West Nile viruses.
  
  While the goal has been to increase public safety, the opposite may have happened, Mr. Rhodes said.With more researchers handling the dangerous agents, there is more likelihood of an accident.
  
  "As the number increases, the risk increases," he said.
  
  Mr. Rhodes said no government agency with jurisdiction over the labs could tell investigators exactly how many second-tier ones were in the United States, demonstrating the paucity of federal oversight.
  
  Part of the problem, Mr. Rhodes and others testified, is that no single federal agency has the authority or resources to oversee properly the laboratories, particularly those that operate without federal funds.
  
  The situation has caused particular concern among officials at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Mr. Rhodes said, because the laboratories themselves could become sources of agents that might be used in terrorist attacks.

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  Published on: 11/13/2007    Last Visited: 12/28/2007  

  Barbara Mikulski visited Frederick County extolling the economic promise of Fort Detrick's expansion, Keith Rhodes, chief technologist for the Government Accountability Office, told members of Congress that the proliferation of high-level biolabs raises serious questions about public safety.
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  "The more BSL-4 labs there are, the more opportunity for mistakes and the more opportunities for release," Rhodes told the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on Oct. 4.Since 9/11 the number of labs researching the most virulent pathogens -- those with no cure -- grew from two to 15.With no central oversight of the growing number of labs, and disincentives inherent in reporting safety breaches, the security and operations of BSL-3 and BSL-4 labs are in question.The oversight of these labs is "fragmented and relies on self-policing.High-risk labs have health risks for individual lab workers as well as the surrounding community.The risks due to accidental exposure or release can never be completely eliminated, and even labs within sophisticated biological research programs, including those most extensively regulated, have had and will continue to have safety failures," Rhodes said.

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