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Thank you. My name is Jennifer Walsmith.

I'm the Vice President for Cyber and Information Solutions within Mission Systems, Northropraman.

Thank you. in mission systems, Northrop Grumman. I actually thought I wanted to be a vet when I grew up.

But when I reflect, I really worked very closely with my father, and he was a big part of my life.

He was a electrical engineer, and I helped him as his

somewhat son outside of the house doing everything from rewiring, building, anything that he

needed done, I learned in his shadow. He worked for NSA and ultimately I followed

in his footsteps to NSA. Not exactly in the path that he wanted me to take, but ultimately

he was a huge influence.

When my siblings, who are both older than I, knew my father, he worked in a candy store according to him, and he had business cards and so forth.

That's how secretive NSA was in the times that they were growing up.

That gradually changed. And I joined NSA in

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