Background
Mark was born on November 2, 1958, in Rochester, Pennsylvania, United States.
Mark was born on November 2, 1958, in Rochester, Pennsylvania, United States.
Dr. Mark Hartong currently is employed by the Federal Aviation Administration, US Department of Transportation as the lead cyber security engineer for the planning, development and implementation of information security requirements, standards, and architectures for the National Airspace System (NAS) Next Generation Air Transportation System (NEXTGEN). The NEXTGEN portfolio encompasses new technologies, airspace procedures, safety, and security standards across the FAA, other US government agencies, and the domestic US aviation community and their international partners. He also is a member of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences promoting innovation and progress through fundamental research in transportation policy, communications, cybersecurity, systems engineering, test, and evaluation. Dr Hartong is an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins University, where he teaches graduate courses in Computer Science.
Before joining the Federal Aviation Administration, Dr. Hartong worked in the Cyber Warfare Systems Group of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) providing systems engineering and operational subject matter expertise related to the acquisition and development of classified cyberspace operations capabilities including requirements analysis, architecture development, systems engineering, mission analysis, and cyber capability assessments for both defensive and offensive cyber warfare capabilities. Before coming to APL, he was with the Federal Railroad Administration, US Department of Transportation as the Senior Scientific Technical Advisor where he served as the agency’s senior technical authority on the application of safety and security critical electronics and software for use in the railroad environment. He also worked as a Staff Systems Engineer with Lockheed Martin Corporation providing systems engineering support for a wide range of classified and unclassified communications hardware and software development programs exploring state of the art communications systems and networking technologies. Dr. Hartong retired from active duty in the US Navy as a naval engineering duty officer. As a navy line technical specialist qualified in submarine warfare, he provided technical, acquisition and fleet industrial leadership to meet national defense needs of fleet units and their associated warfare support systems. This covered hull, mechanical, electrical, combat and weapon systems as well as command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence systems.
Dr. Hartong received his BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Iowa State University with an emphasis in systems and computer aided design. He received a MSc in Computer Science from the US Naval Postgraduate School where his thesis was analyzing the performance of the S-1 Multiprocessor at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in conducting spread spectrum signal analysis and detection for intelligence community applications. He received a MSc in Software Systems Engineering, a graduate certificate in Information Security and his PhD in Information Technology from George Mason University with a concentration in Cyber Security and Cyber-Human Systems. This encompasses computer science, software engineering, electronics/computer engineering, communications engineering, operations research, and security. His doctoral dissertation was on Secure Communication Based Train Control (CBTC) Operations. CBTC systems are cyber physical control systems that provide continuous, automatic train control, supervision, and operation. Dr. Hartong is also a registered professional engineer.
Member of the United States Naval Institute, American Radio Relay League, Pi Tau Sigma, Phi Kappa Phi, Tau Beta Pi.
Married to the Robin Jenks-Vanderlip