Michael A. Sulak
Program Analyst
U.S. Department of State
Mr. Sulak has been with the Department of State for over thirty years. Within his career he has served five overseas assignments, which included Athens, Greece, Accra, Ghana, Bonn, W. Germany, Karachi, Pakistan, and Vienna, Austria.
His career has spanned the areas of Computers, Radio and Secure Telephone communications, Communications Security (COMSEC), Information Assurance (IT Security), PKI and now Physical Security. Mr. Sulak helped to develop the Department's initial PKI pilot program and to establish the Smart Card as the hardware token for PKI certificates.
In June of 2003 he assumed the duties and responsibilities of the Physical Security Smart Card program manager and as acting chief of the Domestic Management and Engineering Branch's Security Systems Configuration section. As the Smart Card program manager, he helped to unite the Department's physical access control requirements and that of PKI onto a single platform, the Smart Card.
He represents the Department of State on numerous federal smart card committees and working groups and is presently the Chair of the Government Smart Card - Interagency Advisory Board's Physical Access Interagency Interoperability Working Group (PAIIWG).
