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Chief Warrant Officer 4 John Millsap serves as the senior technical advisor for the Defense information Systems Agency’s Operations, Plans, and Readiness (J- 3/5/7). Within this role, he provides analytic and technical integration expertise in support of DISA operations, plans, and training. He arrived to DISA in October 2020 as the DISA J-36 cyberspace operations technical director until January 2023, and the DISA J33 technical director until January 2024.
Within his previous duties as the 1st Cyber Battalion analytic support advisor at Fort Gordon, Georgia, he assisted cyber protection teams with operational integration of new U.S. Army Cyber Command to provide capabilities, operational intelligence and develop defensive cyber operations methodologies for data collection, training, and hunting. Additionally, Millsap previously served as the cyber warfare planner for 401 CPT and served as the DCO planner in charge of coordinating with host nations, partner nation cyber forces, U.S. Cyber Command and the service component commands for U.S. Army DCO integration into operational and contingency plans in support of U.S. European Command. He led the effort to collocate EUCOM CPT operations with the DISA Europe fusion cell.
Millsap entered the Army in July 2000 as a multichannel transmission systems operator- maintainer (31R). From 2001 to 2008, he served in 122nd Signal Battalion, Camp Red Cloud, Korea; 208th Signal Company, Fort Bliss, Texas; 331st Signal Company and 2-32 Field Artillery Battalion, Fort Riley, Kansas. He completed a five-month deployment to Kuwait in support of Operation Enduring Freedom with 208th Signal Company and a 15-month deployment to Baghdad supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom with 2-32nd Field Artillery Battalion. He was selected to attend Warrant Officer Candidate School in 2008 and received his appointment in the Signal Corps.
After completing the Warrant Officer Signal Basic Course at Fort Gordon, Georgia, in 2009, Millsap was assigned to the 43rd Signal Battalion, Campbell Barracks, Heidelberg, Germany, where he served as a signal systems support technician in the information assurance branch. In 2011, he completed the 255S Warrant Officer Advanced Course and was assigned to 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armor Division where he served as the first information protection technician at the brigade level. Millsap was the brigade cyber defender for seven network integration exercises. He used McAfee Enterprise Security Manager, ePO and Palo Alto firewalls to patch, collect data, segment networks and create automated responses to network events while creating near real-time communication methodologies with higher and lower echelons to conduct network defense.
Millsap has a bachelor’s in information technology from Western Governor’s University. His education also includes an associate from Maple Woods Community College. His awards and decorations include the Meritorious Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal (two oak leaf clusters), Army Achievement Medal (one oak leaf cluster), Army Good Conduct Medal (two awards), National Defense Service Medal, Iraqi Campaign Medal, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Korean Defense Service Medal, Non-Commissioned Officer Professional Development Ribbon, Army Service Ribbon, and Overseas Service Ribbon (number four).
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