Honoring the Past, Shaping the Future: 50 Years of Law Enforcement Technology Leadership

Catherine Miller has worked over 30 years with public safety technology including the last 13 years with the Montgomery County, MD Police Department as Program Manager of the National Capital Region Law Enforcement Information Exchange Program (NCR-LInX).  She leads this high-profile information sharing system working closely with the program sponsor, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), 14 other LInX Regions, and the FBI's National Data Exchange Program (N-DEx). Catherine has led the technical development, architecture establishment, testing, and system enhancement development for NCR-LInX including the first LInX to LInX connection with the Hampton Roads, Virginia LInX Program that expanded to all LInX Regions being connected.  She helped lead the piloting, development, testing, and implementation of advanced analytical tools with LInX to support more complex investigations like the East Coast Serial Rapist Investigation. Catherine played a major role in the development of the Federal LInX Program (FED-LInX) to include federal law enforcement agencies such as the United States Marshals Service and United States Capitol Police.  She is currently a Board member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police Law Enforcement Information and Technology Section (IACP LEIT) and serves on the IACP CJIS Committee, IACP Policy Center License Plate Reader (LPR) Working Group, and the IACP Policy Center Facial Recognition (FR) Working Group.  She also serves on the IJIS Institute CJIS Advisory Committee – Data Modeling Working Group, Law Enforcement Advisory Committee, Law Enforcement Imaging Technology Task Force (LEITTF) and is currently the Chair of the Records Management Systems (RMS) Standards Task Force working with both IACP and the IJIS Institute on updating criminal justice records management systems standards.  Catherine holds a Bachelors in Mathematics with Computer Science and a Masters in Technology Management.  

George W. Vit is a full time police Sergeant in New Jersey with almost 20 years of experience in law enforcement. He earned a B.S. in Management of Telecommunication from New Jersey Institute of Technology before being deployed. He continued to serve the public by becoming a police officer. After completing an MBA in Management of Technology, he continued to participate in various committees including a technology committee, awards committee, and training committee. He has also received numerous awards including saving a 12 year old boy, a letter of commendation for felony arrests, and others. Most recently, Sgt. Vit was assigned to the support services bureau to carry out training and technology initiatives, which included body worn cameras and related grant funding and policy.
Sgt. Vit continues to serve on many committees dedicated to technology in law enforcement in professional organizations such as the International Association of Chiefs of Police where he was elected to the Law Enforcement and Information Technology Board (LEIT) and serves on the CJIS committee and several working groups.