GERMANTOWN, Md. – More than 55 federal and contractor employees from across the EM complex gathered at DOE headquarters this month to collaborate on information technology (IT), operational technology, and cybersecurity, including how to most effectively enable the cleanup program’s focus on safe, environmentally responsible, and cost-effective risk-reduction cleanup activities. The focus of the EM IT Collaboration Meeting was to finalize EM’s IT strategic plan for fiscal years 2019-2022. DOE Chief Information Officer (CIO) Max Everett joined the group to discuss current CIO priorities and initiatives, and Emery Csulak, the new DOE Deputy CIO for Cybersecurity/Chief Information Security Officer, addressed the group on Departmental cybersecurity initiatives. Everett is pictured at top left with EM Communications Director Jeanne Beard. At top right, left to right, are Hanford CIO Ben Ellison, Savannah River Site CIO and Cyber and Information Technology Division Director Lewann Belton, EM Consolidated Business Center Office of Information Resource Management Assistant Director Ward Best, Everett, Beard, and Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office Cyber and Technical Security Specialist Abraham Getchell.