Matthew Travis | |
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Deputy Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency | |
In office November 16, 2018 – November 17, 2020 | |
President | Donald Trump |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | Nitin Natarajan [1] |
Personal details | |
Born | 2 years old Terre Haute, Indiana |
Education |
University of Notre Dame Georgetown University |
Matthew Travis is a businessman and former American government official. [2] He served as the Deputy Director for the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). [3] Travis served as Deputy Under Secretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) [4] [5] before the agency became CISA on November 16, 2018. [6]
Travis graduated from the University of Notre Dame and joined the U.S. Navy in 1991 as an active duty officer. [7] Travis served aboard the guided-missile frigate U.S.S. CARR (FFG 52) as the Engineering Auxiliaries Officer as well as the maritime interdiction boarding officer in the Northern Red Sea following Operation Desert Storm. [7]
Upon leaving military service in 1998, Travis began a career in government consulting. [2] He built the Homeland Security team at DFI before its merger with Detica and following the firm's acquisition by BAE Systems. [8] [9] In 2010, Travis co-founded Obsidian Analysis, [10] a homeland security consulting firm, which was acquired by Cadmus in 2016. [11]
Travis joined the Trump Administration as Deputy Under Secretary for DHS' NPPD in March 2018. [6] In November 2018, Congress passed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act of 2018, creating CISA as a component of DHS and elevating NPPD into CISA. [12] Travis served as the Deputy Director of that new agency, [13] until the White House pressured him to resign on November 17, 2020. [14]