Carlo Lucchesi
Deputy Assistant Director
IT Management Division (ITMD)
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
U.S. Department of Justice
Carlo Lucchesi currently serves as the FBI’s Chief of Enterprise Operations, responsible for providing timely, on-site and remote IT services for 40K+ FBI, task force and contractor customers, worldwide. This includes support to 95 FBI facilities in the Washington D.C. area; 56 Field Offices; over 200 Resident Agencies and off-sites and 89 Legal Attache’ Offices at Embassy posts.
Carlo also manages the FBI’s Help Desk, IT problem escalation and resolution at Tiers 1 and 2, delivering reliable, effective and fiscally responsible technical solutions to FBI’s Field Agents and analysts. Past assignments included: Associate CIO for Innovation and Technology; Assistant Director of the IT Engineering Division and Office of IT Policy and Planning, as well as serving as Deputy Assistant Director of the IT Management Division.
He joined the FBI in 1993, contributing to successful development and deployment of the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), the FBI’s $640 million Presidential Priority Program that modernized our fingerprint identification services. Carlo ran the IAFIS connectivity assistance program for state, federal and FBI field office users and served as the U.S. delegate to the Interpol AFIS Expert Group, representing the FBI’s information sharing requirements for international interoperability and the exchange of fingerprint standards and data.
Early in his career as a private industry consultant, Carlo was responsible for managing and coordinating diverse military projects. Before retirement as a Commander in the Naval Reserve, he served with the Defense Intelligence Agency’s European Operations Directorate and as Assistant Naval Attaché to Rome, Italy.
A graduate of Middlebury College, Carlo is married with three children, two in college. He spends too little time on his hobbies, which are: attempting to stay fit, family activities, travel, reading, cooking, and international soccer.
ATARC Industry Advisory Board
ATARC Staff
Tom Suder
ATARC Founder/President
Bill Suder
ATARC Vice President
Emily Bonnette
ATARC Account Manager
Lana Dargan
ATARC Marketing & Events Coordinator
Travis Omps
ATARC Account Manager
Kiersten Patton
ATARC Working Group Coordinator
ATARC History
The Advanced Technology Academic Research Center (ATARC) and The Government Information Technology Executive Council (GITEC) announced their merger on May 31, 2018.
The merger brought together two non-profits with similar goals that provide professional development and collaborative forums for Federal government, academia and industry to identify, discuss and resolve emerging technology challenges.
GITEC Board Members who voted to merge with ATARC were: Michelle Barr, HUD; Walter Bigelow, ATF; Adriane Burton, HSRC; Rolando Estrada, DHA; Denise Hill, DOE; Luwanda Jones, VA; Robert Lahmann, SEC; Carlo Lucchesi, FBI; Darryl Peek, DHS; Chad Sheridan, USDA RMA; John Sprague, NASA; and Natasha Varlack, USDA AMS.
GITEC was established in response to a June 28, 1966 White House memorandum to provide a forum through which Senior Level Government and Industry Executives could share and collaborate in an open forum on Information Technology (IT) ideas, challenges and successes.
For over 50 years, GITEC organized and structured an impressive array of initiatives to focus on vital and timely issues affecting the direction and future of IT, including executive seminars, workgroups, summits, committees, and for 25 years, GITEC hosted the annual Information Processing Interagency Conference.
Beginning with its 25th anniversary in 2009, GITEC changed its focus to reflect a new era for IT professionals and a new Administration. In March of 2010, GITEC hosted its first GITEC Summit.
Similar to GITEC, ATARC expanded from its original focus.
Created in September of 2012, the Advanced Mobility Academic Research Center (AMARC) was formed in response to the Digital Government Strategy, which was released earlier that year. AMARC founder Tom Suder played a prominent role in the formation of the DGS and created ATARC to continue the dialogue between government, industry and academia.
AMARC hosted a pair of Federal Mobile Computing Summits before being asked by the General Services Administration in 2013 to hold additional events on the topics of Cloud Computing and IT Networks.
As AMARC’s collaborative focus changed from Mobile to Federal IT, so too did its name. In early 2014, Suder renamed AMARC the Advanced Technology Academic Research Center and within the next year, ATARC expanded its portfolio to include Cybersecurity, DevOps, Data & Analytics and Health IT events.
In 2017, ATARC published a 235-page report to the American Technology Council and Federal CIO Council entitled Navigating the Future of Mobile Services. Produced in the spirit of the Digital Government Strategy and in conjunction with the cross-agency Mobile Services Category Team, the report was a collaborative effort between more than 160 people representing 75 agencies, bureaus and companies.
In 2018, ATARC published its 25th White Paper in conjunction with MITRE as outputs from events in the ATARC Federal IT Summit Series.