Daniel Massey

Director, FutureG Advanced Component Development & Prototypes at Department of Defense

Speaker

Dr. Dan Massey is the Director of FutureG Advanced Component Development and

Prototypes, a U.S. Department of Defense FutureG Initiative within the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)). Dr. Massey is also Acting Deputy Director for FutureG & 5G and Acting Director for the Cross Function Team (CFT) portion of the DoD FutureG & 5G Initiative.

Prior to his current position in FutureG, Dr. Massey served as the Acting Deputy Director for FutureG & 5G and Acting Director for the Cross Function Team (CFT) portion of the DoD FutureG & 5G Initiative. Prior to OUSD(R&E), Dr. Massey served as a faculty member at the University of Colorado Boulder where he helped develop graduate and undergraduate cybersecurity programs. He also served as the Principal Investigator on research funded by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

(DARPA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and industry. Dr. Massey has also worked as a Program Manager in the Cyber Security Division, Science and Technology Directorate, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). During his time at DHS, Dr. Massey developed and managed the Distributed Denial of Service Defense (DDoSD) program and the Cyber Physical Systems Security (CPSSEC) program that focused on cyber security for automobiles and other systems that combine the cyber and physical worlds.