Rich Smith

Rich Smith serves as the Division Manager for the $200M DHS portfolio and has advanced delivery and customer engagement excellence, as well as increased on-contract growth.

During a career spanning thirty years, Rich has held cyber leadership positions including Department Head for Defensive Cyber Operations supporting U.S. Cyber Command and Navy Tenth Fleet, Division Chief for NSA Red Team, and Tenth Fleet Training Officer, and served as an instructor of graduate level cyber security courses at the University of Maryland. He retired from the Navy Reserves as a Cryptologic Warfare Officer.

As a Senior DHS Fellow, former Federal CISO, CTO, and a retired Naval Officer, he brings deep, hands-on experience and knowledge of cybersecurity to supporting the mission of homeland security.

Prior to joining ManTech, Rich was Vice President and Division Manager at CACI within the Business Information Technology Services Sector. At Freddie Mac he served as CISO and Senior Director of security operations responsible for security engineering, threat intelligence, and identity management. He has also held senior positions at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) supporting counter-terrorism, where he implemented enterprise engineering, operations, security and application development, and served as CISO in charge of information security.

Rich served previously as a Senior Executive and CTO at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) supporting the counter-terrorism mission, and implementing the agency’s enterprise engineering, operations, security, and application development. He was also Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at TSA – developing, managing and marketing the most effective information security program in DHS.

During Rich’s time at TSA, he was deployed with the Navy to support Operation Enduring Freedom – Horn of Africa with the U.S. Africa Command. He led the Engineering and Implementation team of the CIO/J6 under General Robert Ferrell in support of multiple cyber, infrastructure, and communications projects in the U.K., Germany, and Africa.

He holds a B.S. in Decision Science (Statistics) and Management Information Systems from George Mason University and an M.S. in IT Management from the University of Virginia.