1. Perri Nejib
Independent Consultant/former Sr Fellow
perri.nejib@icloud.co
Ms Nejib has over 30 years of system engineering and program protection experience and over
25 years of program technical leadership and DoD acquisition management experience. She
holds senior certifications in systems engineering/ESEP, defense acquisition processes/DAWIA,
cyber/info assurance/CISSP, privacy/CIPM and was named a Lockheed Martin Fellow in 2010
and Sr Fellow in 2013. She served as chair of the Cyber Fellows Action Team and co-chaired the
Security Engineering Community of Practice at Lockheed. Her focus has been strategic cyber
and IT technology planning, development and tech transition. She is the co-inventor of the
Secure Engineering Assurance Model (SEAM) TM which addresses building security in across
the entire lifecycle of a program and can be used across a business and successfully applied to
diverse customer organizations. She has implemented SEAM TM successfully and is currently
working with the International Council of System Engineering/INCOSE and the National
Defense Industry Association/NDIA to take concepts from SEAM TM and develop system
security engineering processes and tools that can be universally adopted. The goal is to help
advance complex systems and organizations by integrating security from the start and throughout
the system engineering lifecycle involving all levels of people, process and technology. Ms Nejib
is a subject matter expert in defense, intelligence and cybersecurity domains and has provided
consulting and technical leadership in civil and commercial domains as well. Through her
positions of increasing responsibility (Technical Lead, Technical Director, CTO & Fellow), she
has provided technical and management (across diverse and dispersed teams) support in the areas
of systems and security engineering. In these areas, she has concentrated on architecture
development and implementation to promote interoperability, connectivity, modernization and
cybersecurity between the tactical and national community. She has also supported
Transformation efforts and enterprise management towards developing and interfacing legacy
and future systems to the Global Information Grid.
Ms Nejib has been involved with directing and advancing cybersecurity research with the
University of Maryland and both Warwick and Oxford Universities in the UK. She also serves as
a cyber curriculum review industry member for Anne Arundel Community College’s Cyber and
Information Security Program as well as the Center for Applied Technology for the Anne
Arundel County Public Schools. Ms Nejib was recently named to the Advisory Board for the
Women in Cybersecurity/WiCyS organization.
Prior to becoming a contractor, she was employed by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. She
held positions there as an electronics engineer, senior technical lead, project manager and Deputy
Science Advisor to the XVIII Airborne Corps. Extensive exposure to operational and field
support through successful execution of numerous quick reaction projects was accomplished.
Ms Nejib holds a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and
B.S.E.E. from Wilkes University. She is a senior member in the Society of Women Engineers,
IEEE, AOC, ISC2, IAPP, INCOSE, NDIA and AFCEA organizations and leads numerous
STEM activities in the Washington DC area, including chairing state Skills USA competitions in
computer security. Her outside interests include playing ice hockey and performing volunteer
work with the South River Federation.