Carmen Zapata

Carmen Zapata is Solutions Senior Director for Technology, Innovation and Engineering at General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT). She has 20 years of experience applying data science, AI and systems engineering to national security and critical infrastructure missions across the Departments of Homeland Security, War, State and Agriculture. At the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), she led data, analysis, research and technology eƯorts and served as Deputy Associate Director of the Analytics Division at the National Risk Management Center. She led the national eƯort to update the Infrastructure Data Taxonomy, modernizing how the nation defines and connects critical infrastructure to better understand the impacts of cyber-physical convergence. She also sponsored national laboratory research in this space, including Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's work toward a common way to characterize physical attacks across all critical infrastructure sectors, com