Richard C. Schaeffer Jr.

Richard C. Schaeffer, Jr. is a former Senior Executive with the National Security Agency (NSA), with over 40 years total U.S. Government service, including 15 years as a member of the Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service. He brings extensive leadership, management and technical experience in the area of Information Security and Intelligence. During the early phase of his career Mr. Schaeffer led technical programs and organizations from several dozen to several hundred people, with financial responsibility from several million to almost a billion dollars. Principal positions during his career include Director, Information and Infrastructure Assurance, in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence) at the Pentagon; NSA Deputy Chief of Staff; Acting Director of Research; Director, National Security Operations Center; Information Assurance Deputy Director; and, Information Assurance Director, during the last four years of his career with the NSA.