Josh Reiter

Mr. Josh Reiter is the Department of the Navy Deputy Principal Cyber Advisor (PCA). In this role, he is responsible for supporting the PCA in advising the Secretary of the Navy, Chief of Naval Operations, and Commandant of the Marine Corps, and implementing the Department of Defense Cyber Strategy within the Department of the Navy. Mr. Reiter also serves in the additional capacity as the Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer’s (DON CIO) Chief Workforce Officer. He was originally appointed to Defense Intelligence Senior Level (DISL) in December 2018 as the Director of Cyber Workforce Policy and Planning under the Cybersecurity Directorate of OPNAV N2N6.

A former U.S. Coast Guard licensed merchant mariner, for the first several years of his career, Mr. Reiter served as a DoD civilian mariner with the U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command as Third Officer aboard USNS Saturn (T-AFS-10), USNS John McDonnell (T-AGS 51), USNS Apache (T-ATF 172), USNS Hayes (T-AG-195) and as Second Officer/Navigator aboard USNS Sirius (T-AFS-8).

Mr. Reiter spent three years as the Manager of Maritime Information Systems for the Massachusetts Port Authority, overseeing the information technology infrastructure for the Port of Boston. He spent one year working in private sector information technology, prior to 9/11. After 9/11, Mr. Reiter spent over 17 years serving in a variety of roles at the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) in Washington, DC, including Executive Director of the Nimitz Operational Intelligence Center, the U.S. Navy’s pre-eminent center of excellence for operational and strategic analysis of events associated with the maritime domain.

Mr. Reiter is also a retired Navy Reserve Information Warfare officer whose assignments included the Office of Naval Intelligence, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).

Mr. Reiter earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science/Mathematics from the State University of New York Maritime College at Fort Schuyler, and a Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Society for Human Resources Management Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) and a graduate of the Federal Executive Institute.