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Symposium 2025 Speaker: Suda Vyas

Sudha Vyas, Acting Principal Director for Cybersecurity & Chief Cybersecurity Architect for the Department of Defense, Office of the Chief Information Officer, is responsible for the DOD’s Cybersecurity Reference Architecture and strengthening the collaboration and partnership across government and industry. 

Suda Vyas CCI 2025 Symposium Speaker

Before joining the DOD, she held the dual position of the Naval Information Warfare Command (NAVWAR) Acting Assistant Chief Engineer for Mission Architecture and the Assistant Chief Engineer for Mission Assurance and Certification. 

While there, she also continued her role as director for NAVWAR Cybersecurity Division, where she led cyber-related efforts from cybersecurity transformational initiatives, including leveraging model-based systems engineering to conduct cyber-risk assessments, instituting cyber-data analytics, standards in direct support of the Navy Information Technology and Cybersecurity Technical Authority to ensure warfighting mission success in a cyber-contested environment. 

Vyas also led the cyber risk and resiliency initiative for the Department of the Navy Chief Information Security Officer (DON CISO) under the DON Chief Information Officer’s  Information Superiority Vision. 

Previously, Vyas was deputy division director and NAVWAR Cybersecurity Safety (CYBERSAFE) Program (video). She led and managed the execution of the program to provide maximum reasonable assurance of survivability and resilience of mission critical information technology in a cyber-contested environment in order to maintain mission capabilities. 

Vyas was also responsible for leading the Navy's first cross-SYSCOM Cyber Platform Risk Assessment.

Prior to NAVWAR, Vyas held the position of the Director, Standards and Assessments, Joint Tactical Networking Center (JTNC), where she led and managed the DoD Waveform Standards and Software Communications Architecture, Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program, and Technical Compliance and Certification Assessments of DoD Waveform Information Repository products. 

Vyas also served as the Technical Director and the Technology Protection Officer for JTNC.

She has also held various technical positions within the Joint Program Executive Office (JPEO) for the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) as the Assistant Executive Director of Enterprise Issue Resolution, Program Protection Officer, and Information Assurance Manager for the Network Enterprise Domain (NED) JTRS.

Before serving with the Department of the Navy, Vyas served in various technical and leadership positions within industry. 

  • While at Systems Research Applications, she was Access Control Lead for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), responsible for ensuring the integrity and availability of more than 7,000 institutions. 
  • During her assignment with Signals Solutions, Inc., she was Lead Analyst for the Commander Operational Test and Evaluation Force responsible for planning, coordinating, and directing U.S. Pacific Command and U.S. Forces Korea in joint and coalition information assurance and interoperability exercises. While working for Raytheon Network Centric Systems. she led the information technology managed services for the Transportation Security Agency’s (TSA) security team in implementing an incident response team and the reporting and notification process. 
  • Additionally, Vyas served as Security Operations Center (SOC) manager providing strategic vision and leadership for the $6.8B Navy/Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) program, which was designed to consolidate all Naval network and information assurance operations management at three central network secure operations facilities.

Vyas was born in Bethesda, Md. She holds a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from The Catholic University of America and holds her Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) Program Management Level III certification and Engineering Level III certification.