Dr. Kenneth E. Washington is the Vice President and Chief Privacy Leader of Lockheed Martin Corporation, a role he has served in since April 2008. As Lockheed Martin's first chief privacy leader, Ken spent the first year building the corporation's privacy program, setting the privacy strategy direction, and building a team of privacy professionals to execute the strategy. He now leads this team of privacy professionals and oversees all aspects of the organization's commitment to responsibly manage personal information in accordance with federal, state, local, and international laws, customer requirements, and employee and stakeholder expectations. Under Ken's leadership the Lockheed Martin privacy team is developing new corporate privacy policies, establishing effective employee awareness and training programs, has implemented an agile and effective breach response process, and is supporting several corporate business development teams as the corporation leverages privacy as a strategic differentiator in certain markets.

Prior to his current role, Ken served as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Lockheed Martin Enterprise Information Systems, where he was responsible for shaping the future of the corporation's more than $1B information technology enterprise. In that role he provided technical thought leadership for all internal IT systems and services and provided advice on the emerging IT trends and technologies. In his role as CTO he chaired the corporation's IT Architecture Council, which had the charter for IT technical coordination and the establishment of corporate-wide IT standards.

Prior to joining Lockheed Martin in February 2007, Dr. Washington served as Chief Information Officer for Sandia National Laboratories, where he was responsible for establishing the vision and top-level objectives for Sandia's information enterprise. As CIO at Sandia he oversaw all IT and cyber security policies, enterprise computing systems, and implemented technical and business innovations for protecting technical data and personal information of the lab's employees. He also served as the program manager for IT services within the corporation's internal services business unit. Prior to being Sandia's CIO he served as Director of Distributed Computing at Sandia's California site, where he provided technical leadership for a center of more than 200 computer scientists and IT professionals. Under Ken's leadership this organization pioneered numerous IT, cyber security, and distributed computing innovations. Over his more than 20 year career at Sandia, Ken held a variety of technical, management, and program leadership positions, including leading engineering teams in performing customer-funded projects and programs, and leading IT professionals in meeting internal information system challenges. He has been a leader in IT and computing innovations including nuclear reactor safety system models, high performance computing concepts, and breakthrough cyber security defense and education methodologies.

Ken is a Certified Information Privacy Professional, has a PhD in Nuclear Engineering from Texas A&M University, and is a fellow of the MIT Seminar XXI program on International Relations. He is active in corporate diversity efforts and mentoring activities. He is a member of the IEEE Professional Society and the International Association of Privacy Professionals.