2024 Law Enforcement Conference
The 2024 PSC Law Enforcement Conference is where senior executives from the government technology and professional services industry will convene to hear from government officials across agencies to discuss critical law enforcement mission priorities and IT challenges. Join your fellow federal law enforcement colleagues for the PSC law enforcement event of the year
Nicholas Dimos was named assistant director of the FBI's Finance and Facilities Division in January 2022. Mr. Dimos had most recently served as the deputy assistant director of the division.
Mr. Dimos joined the FBI in 2006 as a budget analyst in the Finance Division. In 2009, Mr. Dimos was promoted to a team leader in the Budget Formulation and Presentation Unit, where he oversaw budget development across several areas.
In 2012, he served as an acting supervisor and transition leader during the establishment of a new procurement unit that focused on strategic sourcing, complex contracting, and workforce development. In 2013, he transferred to the development team of the Bureau’s new financial system, which Mr. Dimos helped implement across the entire FBI.
Mr. Dimos was named the national intelligence financial manager in 2014 and served as the FBI’s senior financial liaison with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Office of Management and Budget, and Congress on national intelligence financial matters.
He was promoted in 2015 to assistant section chief of the recently unified Finance and Facilities Division, overseeing budget formulation, execution, and reporting across all FBI funding sources.
In 2017, Mr. Dimos was appointed as the deputy assistant director of FFD, serving as the FBI’s deputy chief financial officer. He was responsible for budget, procurement, accounting, and audit functions, and led several initiatives to modernize financial services. Mr. Dimos also stood up the new procurement and budget operations at the FBI’s new campus in Huntsville, Alabama.
Before he joined the FBI, Mr. Dimos was a middle school science teacher in Philadelphia through Teach for America. He earned a degree in economics from DePauw University in Indiana and a graduate degree in security studies from Georgetown University.
In his role, Derrick leads the operational personnel, missions and functions of NCMEC to include services provided to families, child-serving professionals and law enforcement. He also supervises the Center’s federal grant awards, which provide critical funds to NCMEC’s mission of finding missing children, stopping child sexual exploitation and assisting law enforcement while managing relationships with critical public, private and industry partners.
Derrick is a highly accomplished member of the Federal Government’s Senior Executive Service with 27 years of law enforcement experience and leadership at the U.S. Department of Justice. Derrick served as the Deputy Director, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Risk Officer of the United States Marshals Service (USMS), where he was responsible for leading USMS employees and supervising global security, investigative and intelligence functions. During his 23-year career at the USMS, Derrick held numerous executive leadership roles to include being appointed by the Attorney General to serve on both the Law Enforcement Advisory Council and Executive Advisory Board for the National Domestic Communications Assistance Center (NDCAC). He also developed and led the agency’s Sex Offender Investigations Branch and National Sex Offender Targeting Center while establishing the Agency’s missing child recovery mission. During his time at the USMS, he was the recipient of four Director’s Awards.
Prior to joining NCMEC, Derrick served as a Principal for Peraton, a national security technology company dedicated to protecting and promoting freedom around the world. As part of the Diplomacy and Justice leadership team, Derrick advised the sector and its clients on security and risk management, planning and performance execution, and assisted law enforcement with data-driven decision making.
Derrick received a graduate fellowship from the University of New Haven, earning his Master of Science degree in Criminal Justice with a concentration in Security Management.
Ms. Nina Ferraro is the Deputy Chief Procurement Officer (DCPO) for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), having been appointed to this role on September 27, 2021. In this role, she assists the Chief Procurement Officer by managing the Department’s Procurement Line of Business, which spans nine operational procurement activities supporting each of the Department’s Components. Prior to her appointment as DHS’s DCPO, Ms. Ferraro served as Senior Advisor to DHS’s Chief Procurement Officer, from June 2019 through July 2021 and Acting Deputy Chief Procurement Officer from August 2021 through September 26, 2021.
Ms. Ferraro first joined the Office of the Chief Procurement Officer (OCPO) as the Executive Director of Strategic Programs in August 2016. In this capacity, she was responsible for strategic communications, strategic sourcing, strategic planning, and industry engagement activities. From April 2017 through May 2019, Ms. Ferraro served as the Acting Deputy Chief Procurement Officer. Before joining the OCPO team, Ms. Ferraro was the Senior Procurement Executive at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Prior to joining OPM, Ms. Ferraro served for eight years as the Director of Acquisitions at the Federal Protective Service, and prior to that spent over 23 years with the Department of the Navy in various acquisition and leadership positions.
Ms. Ferraro holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Chestnut Hill College and a Master of Science in Management and Leadership from Rosemont College.
Featured Sessions
Countering the Complex Threat Landscape of the Public and Dark Web
1:40 p.m.
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Mike Prado, Deputy Assistant Director Homeland Security Investigations Cyber Crimes Center (C3), Homeland Security Investigation
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Derrick Driscoll, Chief Operating Officer, National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
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Emily Odom, Cyber Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Washington Field Office, FBI
What to Expect in Federal Law Enforcement Procurement
4:30 p.m.
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Telly J. Renfroe, Director, Procurement Services Staff, Department of Justice
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Nick Dimos, Assistant Director, Finance and Facilities Division, FBI
- Nina Ferraro, Deputy Chief Procurement Officer, DHS
Registration options
In-Person Registration
In-Person Access
Includes:
- Registration for one person
- Access to all event sessions
- Buffet lunch
- Post-event happy hour
- On-demand sessions
Virtual Registration
Live Virtual Access
Includes:
- Registration for one person
- Access to all event sessions
- Q&A audience access through chat function
- On-demand sessions
Government Registration
Complimentary to full time federal government with valid government email address
Includes:
- Registration for one person
- Access to all event sessions
- In-person or live virtual access
- All event sessions
- On-demand sessions
Plan Your Trip
PSC's Law Enforcement Conference is located at the Westin Arlington Gateway Hotel in the Washington, DC Metro Region. Conveniently near two major airports, Metro, bus routes, and plenty of on-site parking.
Things to Do in the Area
Driven by innovation and urban cool, Ballston is a lively neighborhood featuring the Ballston Quarter complex surrounded by quiet park-laced areas.