USAID's Chief Information Officer Jason Gray has over two decades
of leadership in management, operations, and handling of large
information technology (IT) portfolios for both civil service and
private sector organizations. Jason’s career began at Lockheed
Martin, where he worked as a Systems Engineer and Analyst, and
later in a management role for over a decade. He has also spent time
in the healthcare field, as CIO of the Miami VA Healthcare System
and as Chief Technology Officer of the National Naval Medical
Center. Here, he became familiar with providing IT solutions that
better serve those in public service and in the federal government.
These were skills which he later applied in his role as the Associate
CIO at the Department of Transportation (DOT) where he managed
DOT’s $3.5 billion IT portfolio, in addition to providing executive
leadership on IT policy and oversight for information governance,
compliance, and departmental policy.
Most recently, he has served as the CIO for the Department of
Education (ED), where he provided strategic, tactical and operational
technology leadership in overseeing the coordination, management
and delivery of mission-critical core Information Technology (IT)
services to 24K+ employees across the U.S. Department of
Education (ED). Jason was responsible for providing a secure,
protected, and safeguarded environment for ED’s loan portfolio
worth over $1 Trillion. Under Jason’s steadfast leadership, the DOE
reshaped its approach to cybersecurity and moved from on-premise
data centers to the cloud. Most notably, Jason’s management of the
DOE’s extensive IT portfolios aided in a collaboration with the
Technology Modernization Fund Board which resulted in an
additional $20 million to assist with the adoption of zero trust
architecture. This venture aided over 100 million students and
borrowers, protecting and supporting their data.