Billy Bob Brown, Jr., serves as the Executive Assistant Director
(EAD) for Emergency Communications within the Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). In this capacity, EAD Brown
drives cross-divisional synergy as identified in the Cybersecurity
and Infrastructure Security Act of 2018. Mr. Brown most recently
served as the Associate Director, Priority Telecom Services SubDivision as well as the Program Manager for both the DHS Level 2
Program Next Generation Networks Priority Services Program and
the Level 3 Program Priority Telecommunications Services
Program. In this role, he was responsible for providing priority
telecommunications services over commercial networks to
enable national security and emergency preparedness (NS/EP)
personnel with the ability to communicate during congestion
scenarios across the nation.
Previous to this assignment, he served as the Chief Administrative Officer, Office of Emergency
Communications (OEC) and worked with a team to develop, coordinate, and implement a
Resources Management for OEC that provides fiscal planning, programming, budgeting and
execution across the five-year Future Years Homeland Security Program. It also provides
integrated facilities planning with human resource and staffing planning, and property
management planning to ensure successful resourcing of OEC efforts to unify the entire
emergency communications community.
Previous assignments included a detail assignment as Director of Operations Integration,
National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD), where he achieved Midterm Operational
Capability of the NPPD Coordination and Operations as well as the NPPD Regional Pilot. This
effort operationally tested the Directorate’s integration of field forces to meet Cyber, Physical, and
Emergency Communications challenges. Prior to this, Mr. Brown served as Chief, Regional
Coordination Branch, OEC, leading a geographically dispersed team that facilitated operational
communications coordination and collaboration at all levels of government. He
advocated key emergency communications initiatives, programs, and activities designed to unify
and lead the nationwide effort to improve NS/EP communications capabilities. Prior to joining
the OEC in 2008, Mr. Brown served as an Operations Analyst with General Dynamics Information
Technology and served as a career military officer in the United State Marine Corps as an Infantry
Officer in various duty assignments with world-wide operational experience ranging from the
Infantry Platoon to the Marine Expeditionary Force.
Mr. Brown graduated from the United States Air Force Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree
and holds a Master of Business Administration from Webster University. He is a certified Project
Management Professional (PMP).