Matthew Travis is a businessman and former American government official. He served as the Deputy Director for the Department of Homeland Security's

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(CISA). Mr. Travis served as Deputy Under Secretary for the

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(NPPD) before the agency became CISA on November 16, 2018.

Career

Travis graduated from the

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and joined the

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in 1991 as an active duty officer. 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

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following

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. Upon leaving military service in 1998, Travis began a career in government consulting. He built the Homeland Security team at DFI before its merger with Detica and following the firm's acquisition by BAE Systems. In 2010, Travis co-founded Obsidian Analysis, a homeland security consulting firm, which was acquired by Cadmus in 2016. Travis joined the Trump Administration as Deputy Under Secretary for DHS' NPPD in March 2018. 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. Travis served as the Deputy Director of that new agency until the White House pressured him to resign on November 17, 2020.Cyber agency tells employees not to ‘lose focus’ after Trump fires director

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2020-11-18

References

Living people Trump administration personnel Year of birth missing (living people) Georgetown University alumni University of Notre Dame alumni United States Department of Homeland Security officials People from Terre Haute, Indiana {{S-end