About the IAPP

Lew Oleinick is the Chief Privacy and FOIA Officer for the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), a 21,000 employee DoD combat support component responsible for more than $35 billion in logistics ' or 54,000 requisitions and 8,200 contracts a day ' providing 5.2 million items to the war fighter worldwide.



He plans, manages the development of, directs, and executes policies, positions, standards, and procedural guidance for the DLA Privacy, PII, and FOIA programs. With his background in statistics/IT, Master's thesis on Computerized Governmental Database Systems Containing Personal Information and the Right to Privacy, and 10 years of privacy and technology experience at the Office of Management and Budget, he joined DLA in November 2005 with the goal of raising their Privacy and FOIA programs to become the DOD Gold Standard.