Art Pyster
Deputy Assistant Administrator for Information Services
and Deputy Chief Information Officer

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As the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Information Services and Deputy Chief Information Officer
for the Federal Aviation Administration, Dr. Pyster is the alternate for the CIO, carrying out the full
range of CIO responsibilities. The CIO oversees information technology for the FAA with primary focus
to (1) ensure that strategic and business views drive the formation of information and technology
architectures, policies, and standards; (2) ensure that IT investments are optimized across all agency
groups and over a full range of cost tradeoffs; (3) continuously improve processes used to acquire,
operate, and regulate information systems; (4) ensure information and databases are managed in an effective
and coordinated fashion across the agency; and (5) ensure that critical information systems are secure.

For the two previous years, Dr. Pyster was the FAA's Chief Scientist for Software Engineering, where
he was responsible for improving software technology applied across FAA systems and for continuous
improvement of FAA's software life-cycle management practices and processes. Dr. Pyster directed
the creation and broad application of a comprehensive framework for process improvement,
the FAA-integrated Capability Maturity Model. Prior to joining the FAA, Dr. Pyster worked at the
Software Productivity Consortium (SPC) as its Chief Technical Officer. There he led the development
and deployment of technologies to rapidly develop distributed information systems, to develop product-lines,
to manage systems development, to specify and design real-time systems for implementation in C++
and Ada, and to improve development processes. Dr. Pyster also directed the creation of the
Systems Engineering Capability Maturity Model.

Before joining SPC in 1987, Dr. Pyster was an Engineering Director for Digital Sound Corporation,
a pioneering provider of commercial voice processing systems for the telecommunications industry.
For three years, he created real-time versions of Unix, managed integration and systems test, and
developed advanced development processes.

Dr. Pyster was Chief Architect and Manager of Systems Engineering for the Software Productivity Project
at TRW, implementingan advanced Unix software engineering environment. His project built some of
the earliest requirements management tools and was the earliest application of Boehm's spiral process model.

For five years before joining TRW in 1981, Dr. Pyster was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science
and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California at Santa Barbara, responsible
for well-published research in software engineering and languages, and for designing much of the
initial computer science curriculum.As a consultant for General Research Corporation from 1979-81,
Dr. Pyster was the technical lead on an effort analyzing the use of software to control nuclear reactors.
He also developed a new release of GRC's commercial structured FORTRAN preprocessor. Dr. Pyster is
a former President of the Washington Metropolitan Chapter of INCOSE and a Distinguished Alumnus of
the Engineering College of Ohio State University. He wrote two editions of Compiler Design and Construction.
He received his Ph.D. in Computer and Information Sciences from Ohio State University in 1975.