The Revolving Door
TOM RIDGE
Former title Secretary of DHS, January 2003-February 2005
Current affiliation Board member, Home Depot; board member, Savi Technology; board member, Exelon Corp.
Savi's technology is being used in prototypes of secure shipping containers, which could be widely adopted by business. Officials plan to embed radio frequency identification tags--Savi's specialty--in U.S. passports.
ADM. JAMES LOY
Former title Deputy secretary of DHS, October 2003-March 2005; assistant secretary, Transportation Security Administration, July 2002- October 2003
Current affiliation: Senior counselor, the Cohen Group
Cohen Group employees have registered as lobbyists for DHS contractors Lockheed Martin and Oracle and for Kroll Inc., a company that has received TSA contracts.
ASA HUTCHINSON
Former title Under secretary, border and transportation security, DHS, January 2003-March 2005
Current affiliation: Chair, homeland security practice, Venable LLP; board member, Saflink Corp., a biometrics company
Saflink hopes to play a role in Registered Traveler, which allows frequent fliers to speed through security. Venable's lawyers have registered as lobbyists for Lockheed Martin.
LT. GEN. FRANK LIBUTTI
Former title Under secretary, information analysis and infrastructure protection, DHS, June 2003-January 2005
Current affiliation Vice chairman, Digital Fusion Inc.
Digital Fusion has received millions in Defense Department contracts and hopes to play a role in providing technical support for unmanned aerial vehicles and ground sensors for use at U.S. borders.
STEWART VERDERY
Former title Assistant secretary, border and transportation security policy and planning, DHS, June 2003-March 2005
Current affiliation Principal, Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti Inc., a lobbying firm
Firm has registered to lobby for IBM and Hewlett-Packard. The president's FY 2006 budget requests $5.96 billion in IT investment for DHS--some of which will go to U.S. Visit, a program Verdery helped oversee.
CAROL DIBATTISTE
Former title Deputy administrator, TSA, July 2004-April 2005
Current affiliation Chief credentialing, compliance, and privacy officer, ChoicePoint
The company is involved in a pilot of a version of the Registered Traveler program in Orlando and is a chief subcontractor on a $475,000 contract testing the use of commercial data in TSA's SecureFlight program, the new passenger watch list.
This story appears in the May 30, 2005 print edition of U.S. News & World Report.
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