Lawrence C. Hale is the Federal Computer Incident Response Center (FedCIRC) Director. He has been active in the Information Assurance community since 1996, when he served the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as an Information Assurance Action Officer working on secure interoperability issues. While at the Pentagon, Mr. Hale was a member of the Joint Staff Information Operations Response Cell during a number of exercises and actual cyber events, which have helped to shape U.S. Government policy in dealing with computer security.

In January 1999 Mr. Hale became the first uniformed military officer assigned to the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) at FBI Headquarters. While at NIPC, he worked to improve the process of issuing warnings of cyber-related events, and served on the Y2K task force in the FBI.

Mr. Hale retired from the U.S. Navy as a Commander in May 2001. He has a Masters Degree in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College and a Masters in Aeronautical Science from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.