The Energy Conversation Recognizes...

At the July Energy Conversation (EC), the EC Project Manager, the Naval Postgraduate School, recognized two government exemplars who are showcasing how to " Listen, Learn, Connect, Share, Collaborate" across government.

The Energy Conversation Awards for July 2009 were presented at the start of the event to Carol Dumaine, Deputy Director of the Energy and Environmental Security Directorate at the US Department of Energy, and to Christopher Dipetto, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Acquisition and Technology at the US Department of Defense.

Carol Dumaine serves as head of the Energy and Environmental Security Directorate in the Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence at the U.S. Department of Energy. Prior to this, she was director of the CIA’s Global Futures Partnership, a strategic "think-and-do tank" that promoted unclassified global knowledge-sharing and networking across government and non-government sectors. She was a 2007 Service-to-America National Security Medal Finalist for spearheading the Global Futures Forum initiative, an unclassified multinational network linking government and non-government thinkers in communities of practice focused on transnational security issues. Her work in her current position involves catalyzing an unclassified, international effort, known as Global EESE, that expands international partnerships and cooperation involving governments and non-government parties to enable transnational strategic foresight and risk assessment on the "ripple effects" or second- and third-order security-related consequences emanating at the nexus of energy and environmental security issues. This work aims to enhance global awareness, strategic foresight and resilience in an interdependent world of persistent volatility and heightened potential for abrupt changes. Ms. Dumaine began her career as an intelligence analyst. She has degrees from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies.

Mr. Christopher DiPetto hails from Long Island, New York and graduated in 1979 from the New York Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science. Additionally, he is a 1994 graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Senior Executive Fellow; a 1993 graduate of the Defense Systems Management College's Program Management Course; and a Level III acquisition professional. Since 1992, Mr. DiPetto has reported to the Director, Defense Systems (formerly, Strategic and Tactical Systems) within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology & Logistics), currently, serving as the Deputy Director, Developmental Testing and Evaluation, Systems and Software Engineering. He initially assumed oversight responsibility for cruise missiles including the Tri-Service Standoff Attack Missile and the Navy’s Tomahawk and then, as Staff Specialist for Mobility, he was responsible for strategic and tactical airlift programs, followed by assignment as Special Assistant to the Director, Systems Engineering.